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The B-58 Hustler entered service about 1960, and served 10 years. A total of 118 planes were built at a program cost of $3-billion. This meant that each plane was essentially worth more than their weight in gold. The Hustler did have a number of problems in service, especially a weak...
So much can go wrong, so fast in the B-58 Hustler. Liquid oxygen is carried, and crew members use the diluter-demand regulator, with pressure breathing masks. The interior of the crew space is cooled by two separate air conditioning systems. This is as much for the benefit of the ...
The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world's first supersonic jet bomber, but the Strategic Air Command's commander in chief, General Curtis E. LeMay, wasn't interested in the sleek and technologically advanced aircraft. Gene...
Convair B-58 Hustler B-58A Specifications Variants On Display Cutaway Videos General Characteristics Crew: 3: pilot; observer (navigator, radar operator, bombardier); defense system operator (DSO; electronic countermeasures operator and pilot assistant). Length: 96 ft 10 in (29.5 m) Wingspan: 56...
But top of my list has to be the magnificent B-58 Hustler. Its lines and sheer brute force is so evocative of the US attitude to the Cold War in the 1950s and this aircraft looks like it means business. It had a brief film role too, albeit wasn’t seen, in the really chilling ...
By the time the Korean War erupts a few years later, Brewer is serving as a navigator/bombardier and flying dangerous missions on a near-daily basis. When the groundbreaking B-58 Hustler enters service in 1960, Brewer becomes the first B-52 radar navigator to be selected for air crew duty...
The only one of its kind known to be in existence, the B-58 Rocket Sled (referred to as “The Texas Hustler”) was designed and tested at Holloman Air Force Base in the early 1950’s to evaluate different ejection seat designs for B-58 crews. Being the first supersonic bomber aircraft...
The gorgeous B-58 Hustler was the world's first operational supersonic bomber and also the first bomber to achieve the epochal speed of Mach 2. However, the combination of a high accident rate and huge maintenance demands, along with the advent of the intercontinental ballistic missile, served...
Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively low operating costs have kept them in service despite the development of more advanced strategic bombers, such as the Mach 2+ Convair B-58 Hustler, the canceled Mach 3 North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the variable-geometry Rockwell B-1 ...