Convair B-58 Hustler
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Deuce Vs Hustler: F-102 pilot explains why no fighter jet could catch a B-58 supersonic bomber
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
B-58 navigator recalls being on nuclear alert during Cuban Missile Crisis, doing more bomb runs than anyone in the Hustler on one mission
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
B-58 navigator recalls dropping Mark-53 nuclear bomb (without plutonium pit) while flying at 500 feet and at 628 knots, dinner with Doolittle Raiders and Jimmy Stewart, low level recce missions
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
B-58 navigator recalls nose-high stall during night training Mach 2 bomb run over Dallas. His Hustler pilot turned in his wings.
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The day a B-58 Hustler set all Transcontinental and Return Records
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The B-58 Hustler Minuteman ICBM Launcher that never was
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Convair WS-125A, the nuclear-powered bomber hybrid of B-58 and XB-70 that never was
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Convair Water-Based B-58: the story of the Hustler seaplane strategic bomber that never was
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
B-58 navigator recalls doing more bomb runs than anyone in the Hustler on one mission, being on nuclear alert during Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
B-58 navigator recalls his pilot turning in his wings after their Hustler went in a nose-high stall during a night training Mach 2 bomb run over Dallas
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
B-58 Attrition: was the Hustler’s High Accident Rate the Reason for its Early Withdrawal?
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Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The B-36 Peacemaker was so Huge that it transported the XB-58 Hustler prototype
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The story of B-58 “The Firefly,” the Hustler that set a new Speed Record from New York to Paris before crashing at Le Bourget after doing a Low-Altitude Roll
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Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The B-58 Mach 2 bomber was Sexy, but Hard to Fly. Here’s why the Hustler was one of the most controversial designs in history of aviation.
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Electric Hustlers and the B-58A’s only Flight over Cuba during the Missile Crisis
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Convair Wanted to Transform the B-58 into a Supersonic Airliner. And to Store 5 Passengers in Hustler’s MB-1C Pod.
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