The Dawn of Discipline

摘要

I got my first glimpse of a Boeing B-47 on an April morning in 1954, when I was a U.S. Air Force first lieutenant with about 450 hours in bombers. I was walking out to fly a rather staid base aircraft, a Beech C-45, and saw the B-47-glistening in the California sun and trailing long plumes of exhaust-land at my home station, Castle Air Force Base, the first of the 45 to be assigned there.