Meet a fellow yesterday at Waffle House who served on the telemetry crew during the development of the B-58 Hustler.
I wanted to show him some photos of the B-58 that I posted regarding the US Air Force Museum in Dayton. This post is now of an age that they have now been relegated to the archives.
Much to my surprise I could not find or access these archives nor could I locate either the B-58 or the archives themselves using the search function.
By the way I feel this post should be more correctly placed under the site discussion header but for whatever reason the âCreate New Topicâ button is grayed out on my computer.
I try (usually) to make frequent observations regarding the operation of this site but in this particular case you can certainly classify this as a âcomplaint.â
I feel certain Robin will reply by showing me some alternate âsecretâ way to access the Archives but why is it not simply "where it is âsupposedâ to be?
Did you try searching for this text:
Experimental B-58 clam shell escape pod
Took me all of 2 minutes to find those photos
Dayton isnât mentioned in the post.
Not Wright-Patterson either,
Wright-Pat is included in the text though
Third search result from the top, if I had bothered to type
Aeroscale it would have been the first result.
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On the B-58 topic I once read an article by one of the test engineers for the escape pods, where they used sedated bears as test-pilots when firing capsules from the rocket sled. The best bit was him saying he strapped the fully-grown bear in, secure in the knowledge that he wasnât the poor sap that had to open it down-range! Iâm not sure how much tranquiliser it would take to overcome the bearâs sudden adrenaline rush, but I suspect the answer is ânever enoughââŚ
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Had absolutely NO problem finding it once home on my computer but on the phone search all it showed me were post-Discourse listings
whem I ask Google about
âaeroscale B-58 165thspcâ
on my trusty old Samsung Galaxy S8
the link to âBuilding Italeris 1/72 Hustlerâ is the first
result.
Running Android and using Samsungs internet-app (wonky or not, havenât tested)
I am not using Googles own app.
Maybe my Google-Fu is stronger than yours âŚ
Bumping this topic back up. There is still no way to access the archives when looking at the site on my phone.
When you hit the dropdown that says Aircraft, Armor/AFV, Railroad Modeling, etc. why can there not simply be a heading entitled âArchivesâ ??? Seems like a no brainer to me and an easy fix.
Typical Robin answer and one that I would have expected. Now I guess I have to remember the exact wording of what I am looking for ???
How 'bout we instead pour ALL the model categories into one great big file bag and let everyone wade through things they are not interested in to find what they ARE interested in ???
Robin you have a great tendency to always defend the system instead of looking for ways to improve it. You are a system administrator, so sure what do I know? I am just your lowly User/Customer!
p.s. I DID search the word âWrightâ and nothing came up."
Hey Mike,
Trying to help here. I did the same searches and was able to come up with a few hits on both my iPhone and iPad. Is âPatterson Air Force Baseâ what youâre looking for? Disregard if these are not the droid you are looking for. 
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Good luck.
âmike
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I think it would be possible to add an archive link in the mobile code base. I had to go into the code to make that forum link appear as there is no way to do it otherwise. Not saying that will get done soon though. That would be about #89 on my priority list of things needing done.
Regarding not being able to reach it on your phone, if you want to get to it, you just have to type in archive armorama in your search/url bar on a phone and pretty sure you would be there. Feel free to book mark it. 
Jim
When I type in âarchives armoramaâ I get a list of posts referring to the archives but not the archive itself.
OK that worked. Thanks Ryan.
However I still donât understand why the parent (current) Armorama site would not have an easy and clear link to their archives. (Yes it is there on my computer but not there on my phone. ???)
If you create a bookmark for the page, youâll be able to access it from anywhere, any device. 
HTH.
âmike
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at least on my mobile, if you scroll that red bar on the forums top page to the right you can access the archived sites.
⌠on my Samsung(Android) phone too âŚ
The search function does not stay within the bounds of the archived forums which is slightly irritating.
Searching for the right words does give the wanted results though.
The red bar at the top (on my phone anyway) has a âMoreâ pull down but it does not include the âArchivesâ as an option.
Itâs on the right of âMoreâ, you have to slide the red bar to show it. Or turning the phone into landscape format
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