And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Yup, 1962 Bendix Trophy; LA to New York, AVERAGE speed of over 1,200 mph. And that's not an electronics recon pod slung under the fuselage - it's a nuke.
Built in Fort Worth. One was on display along with a B-36 in a small outdoor museum. The B-36 was moved to the Pima museum. The B-36 and the B-58 Hustler bomber were exclusively built at the Convair plant in Fort Worth, Texas. All 116 B-58s of various models were built there between 1956 and 1962. It was moved to Kelly AFB, and finally, it was acquired by the National Museum of the United States Air Force. I have pictures of toth of those bombers but will have to find them.
Way back in the late 1950's, my US Air Force career officer father purchased a Revelle plastic model of this bird and I gladly and proudly assembled it to hang in my bedroom.
If you really want to know more about that B-58 check it out at the this link. Operation Heat Rise... https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/858889/operation-heat-rise/
You can see where some of the design of the Bone came from. I'm sure I heard the B-58 when I was very little, and spent 4 years on a Bone base from 88 to 92.
I remember when I was a kid the gov't conducted tests with the Hustler flying supersonic over the country. We kids thought the sonic boom was very cool. Adults hated them. Damn things were loud and shocking.
That thing just screams speed!
ReplyDeleteYup, 1962 Bendix Trophy; LA to New York, AVERAGE speed of over 1,200 mph. And that's not an electronics recon pod slung under the fuselage - it's a nuke.
ReplyDeleteFeatured in "Fail Safe".
ReplyDeletegrew up outside Cleveland, I recall some sort of activity re: the B-58 c.'63.
Built in Fort Worth. One was on display along with a B-36 in a small outdoor museum. The B-36 was moved to the Pima museum. The B-36 and the B-58 Hustler bomber were exclusively built at the Convair plant in Fort Worth, Texas. All 116 B-58s of various models were built there between 1956 and 1962. It was moved to Kelly AFB, and finally, it was acquired by the National Museum of the United States Air Force. I have pictures of toth of those bombers but will have to find them.
ReplyDeleteWay back in the late 1950's, my US Air Force career officer father purchased a Revelle plastic model of this bird and I gladly and proudly assembled it to hang in my bedroom.
ReplyDeleteIs that Larry Flynt's plane?
ReplyDeleteIf you really want to know more about that B-58 check it out at the this link. Operation Heat Rise... https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/858889/operation-heat-rise/
ReplyDeleteYou can see where some of the design of the Bone came from. I'm sure I heard the B-58 when I was very little, and spent 4 years on a Bone base from 88 to 92.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, sleek, yet almost instantly obsolete.
ReplyDeleteBut almost certainly the inspiration for the Jonny Quest biz jet from Hanna-Barbera.
I remember when I was a kid the gov't conducted tests with the Hustler flying supersonic over the country. We kids thought the sonic boom was very cool. Adults hated them. Damn things were loud and shocking.
ReplyDeleteB-58 HUSTLER , that name should be used again by the Airforce, too cool..
ReplyDeleteIts a great name but it has to go on something very fast. Nowadays, alas, stealth is more important.
DeleteNowadays the wammins would object to naming a jet after a porn mag. :P
DeleteB58 Hustler, SR-71 Blackbird, XB-70 Valkyrie, A-5 Vigilante, F-15 Eagle.....Top 5 sexiest planes ever built....
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