Can't Access the Armorama Archives through my phone (Android) using the internet

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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 “Create New Topic” 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 “complaint.”

I feel certain Robin will reply by showing me some alternate “secret” way to access the Archives but why is it not simply "where it is “supposed” to be?

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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 isn’t mentioned in the post.
Not Wright-Patterson either,
Wright-Pat is included in the text though

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Third search result from the top, if I had bothered to type
Aeroscale it would have been the first result.

Smoking Gun GIFs | Tenor

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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 wasn’t the poor sap that had to open it down-range! I’m not sure how much tranquiliser it would take to overcome the bear’s sudden adrenaline rush, but I suspect the answer is “never enough”…

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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

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whem I ask Google about
“aeroscale B-58 165thspc”
on my trusty old Samsung Galaxy S8
the link to ‘Building Italeris 1/72 Hustler’ is the first
result.
Running Android and using Samsungs internet-app (wonky or not, haven’t tested)
I am not using Googles own app.

Maybe my Google-Fu is stronger than yours …

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Maybe that’s it.