In my first, very decrepit car (1938 Minx) I managed also to do Sculthorpe same day. That had a similar range, inc ANG F-84F/F-86H. The period from Berlin Wall, 8/61 to Cuba, 10/62, informs my generation even yet. The balloon very nearly did go up, and we do not have patience with revisionists who try to dispute that, safe in the comfort of their armchair. USSR was probing US’ commitment to the NATO Treaty: 3 Musketeers, all for one, one for all. That’s what the ANG reinforcement, and year-long deployment, was all about. The Sovs never tried it on, so blatently, in W.Europe again, but became mired in its proxies, from Angola, on to the one that helped dished them – in the ‘Stan.