Back when I was stripling of a lad at boarding school in Brisbane I had a mate who was the son of the Padre at Amberley. I think it was the year of the Mirage intro 1963 or so, and there was an Aussie tour of a B47. I think it was to try to gen up a lease / loan deal in the interim between the Canberra and F111. That deal culminated in the F4.
Everyone turned out to watch it depart.
Turns out up in the front seats was a most very senior pin from each of USAAF and RAAF who both forgot to turn the rocket assist on until it was almost too late. Legend has it that a servo which was located on a low rise a couple of miles off the end of the active runway on the major Southern highway, had every glass pane blown out.