The Convair B-58 "Hustler" Supersonic Bomber - Champion of Champions (Restored Color 1962)
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2012
- General Jimmy Stewart walks you through the B-58 Hustler's virtues and reviews the many records she claimed in this memorable film. A pilot once said of the Convair B-58, "She looked like she was breaking the sound barrier just sitting on the tarmac." At Mach 2+, the B-58 wasn't just one of the fastest bombers of her day, she was one of the fastest military planes period.. A first cousin of the hot "century series" of fighters, the delta winged "Hustler' medium bomber combined outstanding performance with a striking, javelin-like profile that spawned a mystique that survives to this day. In the early1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in just two years the B-58 captured 14 speed and performance records, many previously held by Soviet aircraft. She was not only capable of extended 700 mph on-the deck missions at 500 feet (then unheard of for a bomber and without the advantages of today's ground hugging radar or fly-by-wire) she also set altitude and climb records. The B-58 was capable of doing whatever was necessary to invade enemy air space. As legendary star and war hero Jimmy Stewart says in this film, she was a lot more than a "hot rod" made for setting records, she was a lethal weapon of war -- and an outstandingly handsome aircraft.
I had a B-58 model when I was a kid and never forgot it. The surviving copy of this film had lots of scratches & heavy color shifts, so I spent more than a 2 weeks digitally restoring it. Zeno, Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com Don't miss our B-58 DVDs with 10 more B-58 videos & complete pilot's manuals bit.ly/I3dBP5 Visit our aviation DVD store at www.zenosflightshop.com for the World's largest selection of World War 2 & vintage jet aircraft aviation videos.
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Absolutely, Gen. Stewart is a national treasure that is sorely missed. Humble and Resolute. Rest in Peace, Jimmy.
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I had the great honor to attend church with Gen Stewart between 1979 and 1982. He came every Sunday he was in town. At Christmas he would read the "lessons" about the birth of Jesus, while those of us in the choir sang accompanying Christmas songs. So, I technically got to perform with Mr. Stewart at the Rodeo Drive Presbyterian Church! He was a remarkable man, tremendous actor, fantastic flyer, and great American. No other actor achieved his rank in the military.
Simply one of the most beautiful planes ever created
It does look pretty cool, although the seperate cockpit canopy's for the pilot, co-pilot and DSO would make it hard to pass the sandwiches back.
My favorite as a boy.
It came too soon. The technology that was need to make it historic was not developed yet. With all the money that has been spent from that time to this, we might as well have stuck with the B-58.
@@Dbusdriver71 Agreed... It was extremely advanced for its time, and just as expensive. Ironic that no one complains about the costs of aircraft like the F-35... keeping the B-58 on active duty would have been cheap in comparison.
@@Reindeer911 Like rock and roll bands reindeer911 timing can be everything. A stealth fighter that sort of works has a better chance of more investment and time to sort itself out versus a Mach 2 Bomber with technology that was ahead of its time that when it worked it was fantastic but when it had problems it was usually disasterous. Soviet surface to air missles kept improving and kept pace with us. Even Valkrey couldn't survive so it was flown (the one that was left) for testing. The funny thing is the B-52 is the most attacked bomber and yet it will be kept for up to 50 more years.
Another award never talked about, is the sexiest looking aircraft award.
Concorde, which was a highly good looking aircraft for civil service, resembles it.
Jimmy Stewart could talk about nail fungus for an hour, and I would never get bored listening to his voice. LOL
Fun fact, Maj. Henry John Deutschendorf, shown piloting one of the Hustlers, had a son, Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., who wanted to fly like he did, but had to abandon that dream due to poor eyesight. Instead his son became a singer/songwriter. Known mostly for country music, and going by his middle name, John, he had to change his last name because *Deutschendorf* was too long to fit on the record label. So he took as his last name the capitol of his favorite state, Colorado. We knew him as John Denver.
John Denver before he was "John Denver" was part of folk group The Alpine Trio and later the Chad Mitchell Trio
Had a model of her as a kid. Still fascinating to me 50 years later...
This is one of my all time favorite planes
Can you imagine this superb aircraft with modern jet engines and 2018 avionics. Wow.
Can you imagine being allowed to break the sound barrier with multiple booms across the country AND back in the same 4 hour window? SF whines when the Blue Angels show up for Fleet Week and they don't exceed 400-500 MPH. Sad times indeed! End rant . . . .
Jimmy Stewart could tell me about the wonders of recreational disembowelment and I would want to get it done. What a treasure.
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you had to have balls to fly anything in ww2 both guys had guts like them both ,,an a b24 was a deathtrap if hit hard
Hats off to Gable, but Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot who flew many dangerous missions. See for example
www.historynet.com/mr-stewart-goes-to-war.htm
Wow Jimbo...shilling for LeMay...but I understand the times. People actually BELIEVED THE LIES OF BIG MIC...And you were their spokesman.
I never realised he was a brigadier general. Not only that but he says he flew the B-58 in the film. To actually do all the work and training to the point where he could pilot that plane is big news. Wiki says he stayed current on B-36, B-47 and B-52 bombers. A true bomber man. I'm amazed.
As a 7 or 8 year old, I had one of these jet planes as one of my toy planes. Loved it! Wish I still had it.
Love the classic music of documentaries from that era.
Jimmy Stewart...what a great actor he was with a voice style that has never been equaled.
As a kid in the 60's the B-58 was the first aircraft model I built (always did AMC 3 in 1 car kits). Fell in love with doing airplanes after that. What memories.
So what was so funny? He WAS actually an Air Force Reserve Brigadier General. He was checked out in every aircraft Strategic Air Command had in the 60s including the B-58. Knowing him, he would not have tolerated a public relations faked flight and taxi-in of that bomber without him actually doing it. He was a very self-effacing individual and he would have NEVER said "yeah, that was really me piloting that plane". He let the footage speak for itself.
"He was checked out in every aircraft Strategic Air Command had in the 60s including the B-58". Horsefeathers.
Jimmy Stewart was a bad ass
I love this. Jimmy Stewart just became my DeFacto answer for " Who would you like to most meet...". Impressive man.
I had that model too. Looked fast, even just sitting on my dresser!
I was present as a NAA timer on one of those records. One of the guys with a stop watch under the cross wires. That plane was awe inspiring in its day.
Jimmy Stewart, Major General, USAF Reserve (promoted by president Reagan on the reserve retired list) was a very impressive man and great American. Joined the US Army Air Corps before the US entered WW2, he rose from Private to full Colonel and commanded a USAAF bombing wing in the UK. Staying in the Reserve after the war he flew all of the Strategic Air Command's aircraft. He was promoted Brig Gen in 1959. Before retiring from active reserve service he flew B52s in combat in the Vietnam war.
Such a beautiful, powerful plane. I used to see them pretty often flying around Carswell, but I never knew until now that there were three guys in them.
As much as I love the SR71, the B58 is still my all time favorite aircraft.
was with the 43rd Bomb wing at Carswell AFB & Little Rock AFB from 1962-1966...B-58 Fire Control Tech....radar controlled M61A1 20mm Gatling Guin
My husband was at LRAFB '64-68. 58013 was his plane.
Dutchendorf 7:30 was John Denver (the singer's) father.
I had a model of this aircraft too. Great looking airplane.
The most Beautiful and probably fastest Bomber ever built. I had the opportunity to see this Aircraft on a regular basis growing up as I did about 100 miles South of Little Rock AFB and saw them practice low level penetration and high speed high altitude delivery as well sonic booms were a regular occurrence in my youth, the B- 58 was one of the reasons I enlisted in the Air Force
The Valkyrie has entered the chat!!! 🤠👍
In real life. Jimmy Stewart was a badass!
Yes he was, portrayed great Americans on screen, and WAS a great American in private life. He didn't need to talk the talk, he knew how to walk the walk.
Yes The General was, he was a combat Bomber drive during WW2 and stayed with it after the War as a Reserve Officer
Convair Ft,Worth... Dad bucked rivets there @ night & fished most days on the lake's far shore. He worked there, 1944 thru 62. God Bless All who contributed & continue to make damn sure that... "YOUR BEST FIGHT, IS THE ONE THAT NEVER HAPPENED"
ZenosWarbirdshat's off for the memory stirring's.
-Former 82nd Abn. Recondo Sgt. 32019
That B-58 that John Denver's dad flew to the speed record is today in the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.
not far from me ,,cool place
Bendix Trophy winner 2458 saw it in 1979 my favorite aircraft
I was visiting a friend in the early 1960s who lived very close to Carswell. We were standing in his back yard when a B-58 flew over at about 500 feet. The ground shook and it was so loud that my friend could could not hear a word I said even if I was screaming in his ear. Awesome plane to say the least.
My dad has film of when a British Vulcan Bomber flew low over the Commonwealth Games opening here in Perth in 1960
This was one of the Bomber Sqdns (63, 64 & 65) I was assigned to. I knew the Pilot personally and had bought a 1948 Ford Coupe from him. Later sold it as we were all transferred to Little Rock AFB.
What a fantastic plane! And Jimmy Stewart, well can't get more American than him! At 22:03 there is a shot of the First National Bank of Topeka ( KS ), in my home town. The classic art deco building has since been imploded. Also, earlier in the video, there is a road sign reading Atchison KS. It was home town of Amelia Earhart. Love these old films!
Loved this one.. Brought back some long-forgotten memories I had of being just a little guy when we visited my Uncle Bud at Carswell AFB where he was a pilot himself. I got to go out on the Flightline with him! Pretty exciting stuff for a 6 year-old.
I was stationed at Carswell twice but unfortunately with B-52s not B-58 the beautiful
General James Stewart, USAFR, stayed in the reserves after WWII. Damn fine pilot.
Stellar job with restoring this gem!
I was in junior high school near New Brunswick, NJ standing next to an open window when that B-58 set the LA to New York speed record in March 1962. That shock wave actually moved the window blind on the window and I later found out what that sonic boom came from. Saw one in static display at Andrews AFB at an air show, beautiful aircraft.
Lead to F-102, F-106, Space Shuttle.Swept wing B-1 is similar to delta wing. Jimmy Stewart actor an USAF Col. Thanks for this video.
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You have my support sir! Will visit there very soon! Thank you for making these films possible-especially B-58 CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS, and a real American hero, Brig Gen James Stewart, USAF-he is what a true patriot is-thanks for this great video : )
There is a B-58 on display at the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ, USA.🥰🥰
So long, Jimmy. Like the B-58 you were so proud of, we won't see your like again, either.
HotCuppaCoffee you mean we won't see supersonic bombers whose only purpose is to carry a second-generation multimegaton bomb to the Soviet Union to snuff out millions of lives? fine with me, fuckhead
nutsackmania -- My word!
Aren't you a comical little fool? *LOL*
+HotCuppaCoffee There's an ass for every seat. In his case he takes two seats.
HotCuppaCoffee
When my wife and I were on our honeymoon to California in 1992, we went on a Hollywood bus tour of star's homes. When we got to Jimmy Stewart's house, he was just coming out his front door to get into his car. He turned and waved at us, which is something he commonly did, apparently. For me, it was the high point of the whole trip!
I'm sure lots of things are fine with you. Keep in mind if you were in the Soviet era, you couldn't afford a computer, you would be imprisoned (along with your family) for making such idiotic statements, and you would know then what it is like to experience a "real" enlightened society that agrees with you and your values.
I remember a filght of B-58's doing a 'fly-over' of a 4th of July parade when I was a kid. This vid also explains some of the sonic booms I heard around the same time. At least until the "timed" sonic booms came around when the A-12 was being tested around the same time frame. My guess was that the B-58 filghts were being used to "cover" for the top-secret A-12, which later became known as the SR-71.
This is priceless. Thank you for posting
Good job on the digital restoration! Enjoyed it very much. I also had a model of a B-58 when I was a kid....
Thanks for sharing this with me Mike. I love it.
This is sweet! My dad worked at Con-Vair and then General Dynamics.
Designed projects were under wraps for 50 years.
He did specialty design for many jets all the way up to swep wing, y-F16 etc. He was 90 y.o. when he passed. G.I; Korean / Iwo Jima arena.
My Dad was a USAF Line Chief; he said the B58 was a maintenance Nightmare; far too advanced for the Computers of it's day....
Yeah, I had a metal model. Still remember it from 60+ years ago. What a beauty. I sure would ruin an Isils day....
This is great stuff ! Totally awesome - Thanks
Thanks for uploading. As kid in the early 60's I had a ( Revell ? ) model of the plane. With a button on the fuselage to drop the fueltank. But no info was to get those days. No internet etc. So now I was able to get a closer look at it.
The Monogram B-58 kit was the one with the push-button dropping pod.
Castle Air Museum Atwater / Merced will be getting one of the last remaining B-58's sometime in July. 2017. It will be reassembled on site next to our B-52D.
Yes, Castle got the one that was at Chanute...
James stewart was ageless
Thanks. Great video and Airplane---- US Air Force Convair B-58 Hustler Supersonic Delta Wing Jet Bomber.
Jimmy Stewart and John Denver's Dad in the same video! Now everyone knows why even Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. or John Denver liked planes so much.Well ,at least he went doing what he loved next to music. His Father was probably looking down going,Pull up ,Pull up.....oh well,hello son!
Looking down? From where? Heaven? LOL
Seen one these planes take off at Anderson Air Force base outside of DC as a kid . Great memory for me , thanks dad .
Andersen Air Base is in Guam. Andrews AFB is outside of DC.
Thank you for a fine video.
I love this. Nice video.
Thanks for posting.
Great stuff. Love building the airplane model as a child.
Then drafted during Vietnam as a grunt, followed by major mayhem, followed by animosity in the general populace.
But it's still a cool-looking and great performing aircraft.
Wow. My hero.
Cool observation -- I once ran across a dude who went to school with John in Montgomery, Alabama when his dad was stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base. My guess is, growing up an Air Force brat spurred his interest in flying experimental planes - one of which took his life.
Still looks good today. And bad to the bone.
yes great movie Jimmy did..
At the 7:40 minute mark Henry J Deutchendorf is introduced as the first SAC pilot to fly the B-58. John Denver's dad!
When I was in school I knew someone that said his father was a pilot in the US AIRFORCE, one day we where in class and some AIRFORCE men came in and said he had to come with them Now ! them he told me there is and alert and his father is a B58 Hustler pilot... . 🇺🇸
always my favorite Jet
When i was a kid, i got first look at the Hustler overhead near our home, Altus A.F.B., Ok.
Cool plane!
didnt know jimmy stewart was cheked out on the b-58 ! He should have flown in space too! Im sure he could have been a good astronaut as glenn was!
I think i fell in love with The b58
Can you imagine this beauty doing a flyby at a couple hundred feet? 😁
Here's some trivia for you Colonel Deutschendorf was Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (Known as John Denver) father and the B58 computer was analog!!!! 😳👍
"Duffledore was Bob Denver's father"
LOL! No, he was not.
I miss the electrical shock that a sonic boom would make you jump, and shake the windows to almost breaking at school.
u2mister1
The Lake Worth school i attended, is in direct flight path, about a 1/3 mile north of the runway. During the Cuban Scare, when the B-52's were often in constant take off & landing mode, the teacher would just get up and write on the board the pages we were to read till it abated.
By the 1960's, noise from air traffic at Carswell Air Force Base caused the district's schools to lose 10 percent of teaching time each day. To mitigate this problem, Lake Worth Junior High School was built underground; this 1964 construction project included 18 rooms at a cost of $495,000.
William Gilpin
William Gilpin Interesting fact. Is the school still active?
Lynn Rawls Get back to you on that one. Seems that calls to the school itself, city hall & the fire dept. are unfruitful
@ this time. Hell, _i might have to try the barber shop or lions club to answer this one since school is out. lol. Think you'll find page 140 on the following link interesting till then. media.journals.elsevier.com/content/files/the-architectural-underground-part-11063614.pdf 61317
What difference does it make if the school is still open?
I heard 100s of sonic booms while living in North Africa in the early 60s. Those are bad ass.
What a golden time!
Thank You so much for this film and restoring it!, excellent!
I so agree
58-1016 RB-58A-CF CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS. Upgraded from reece to full SAC bomber config. Lost 5/20/65 pilot error at Little Rock AFB. Navi killed.
In the movie"Strategic Air Command" Jimmy Stewart's nick name was "Dutch." I wonder if that was a reference to B-58 pilot Dutchendorf who was also John Denver's dad.
No, his last name is Holland, hence the "Dutch" nickname.
Love the theatrics, sonic booms do not sound like artillery shells, but she was fast with 4 J79 engines with afterburners, now a SR 71 can fly cali. To florida and back in under 45 minutes.
Pretty Cool... For a 1950's era Video Shoot...
One wonders who produced and paid for this film, and where it was shown, and what its intended purpose was.
My guess--which is worth precisely what you are paying for it--is it was General Dynamics (parent of Convair, maker of the B-58), working in tandem with the USAF--who made this film, in an effort to build support, and among the electorate, for funding further production of the B-58.
This kind of coordinated and well-funded lobbying effort might well be what President Eisenhower was referring to in the conference of February 10th, 1959, when he said to Dr. Killian, Dr. Purcell, and Dr. Land (inventor of the Polaroid), and General Goodpaster: "The munitions makers are making tremendous efforts toward getting more contracts and in fact seem to be exerting undue influence over the Senators." (declassified, 10-27-1995)
Funk and wagnalls encyclopedias first copy had a. B58 in it I loved this plane as a xhild and would look in it at stores for it
B-58 had too short a range (4,400 mi) to be truly useful as a deterrent. Compare this to the range of the B-52 (8,800 miles PLUS)
That is why the B-58 had such a short service life.
There were actually several other reasons it had such a short service life. It was expensive to operate and maintain, difficult to fly, suffered from many non-combat related accidents, and could only carry nukes, which meant it couldn't be used tactically...also, SAMs meant that it couldn't be used at high altitudes...it was incredibly fast, but it couldn't outrun SAMs...
@@jamesbottger5894 But if you pit them in forward bases in England and Germany .They could deliver the goods very quickly in to the soviet block country's and turn around and come back before they knew what hit them.Tactical nuclear strike force
My uncle was an engineer who worked on designing some of the landing gear. He lived in Ft Worth Texas, not sure what company.
I was rased in N Little Rock AR and saw B-58s all the tima and had BOOMS for lunch and dinner LOL
Man that thing is pointy!
flying at mach 2 over the UN was it not giving the soviets the middle finger
Well the B-58 is gone and the B-52 still going
That's puzzling to me...the B1B will do anything the B-52 will do, only better, so why is the B-52 still being used?
@@jamesbottger5894 that's also very tricky of the military industrial complex they shutdown the F22 and B1 production line...when is obvious that the best planes the USAF has in its arsenal should be ready to enter production at any time....as the present situation shows
Grandpa has one of these in his barn.
John Denver's dad flew that.
+Joe Williston He is mentioned in the film.
At 7:41
The only US bomber without a bomb bay.
We called this aircraft the lead sled. It could not even due a turn around with out a lot of maintenance. I know I worked on them.
When America was a real country not the joke it is now
7:45 Dutchendorf...wasn't that John Denver's dad? John Denver was an Airforce brat born in Texas.
Maj. Henry Deuchendorf, mentioned in this film, was the father of singer John Denver.
The aircraft from the movie Fail Safe?
Scott F Davis
Yep, they had the B-58 as the "Vindicator." They used the wide lens on overhead shots to make it look bigger. My dad actually flew some of those North Pole missions in good old B-52s. Thank God he never got a "go" order to hit Russia.
20:43 That was how the movie _Red Alert_ ends
That's one Skookum Choocher...
AT low altitude it had to travel subsonically. That is why it failed and was never operational. It was made to fly at high altitude at Mach 2. At low altitude it could travel no faster that Mach.9 or it would reveal it's position.
The B-58 was operational 1960 -1970. Wake up!
Would have been great for a missile truck
I love Jimmy Stewart, he's certainly an American treasure, but knowing the reputation of the B-58 and how difficult it was to fly, I'm pretty sure he was never PIC for any B-58 flights. No doubt that he flew in it but that's prob about it. And yes, Maj. Deutschendorf was John Denver's father.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart
That's correct. Stewart never flew as a B-58 pilot.
@@ZenosWarbirds The B-58 isn't mentioned there.
@@ZenosWarbirds Stewart was qualified as First Officer (co-pilot) in the B-47 and B-52. That's it.
Wonder why they never did an interceptor AA variant with this design. It was as fast or even faster than many contemporary fighter aircrafts, had much superior range and room and tonnage to put big early radars and long range missiles. might even have turned quite well at high altitudes and speeds and dogfighting was not a high priority in the late fifties. imagine a missile train that could shoot down bombers and fighters from a safe distance or do fast dash and run maneuvers.
The problem with delta wing craft is they were stable, too stable, in fact. What I mean by that is they were difficult to turn and maneuver in flight; subsequent aircraft had and have a bit of jittery-ness built-in to their designs to make them easier to maneuver.
Pour'Richard Gordon Wouhaaa , c'est dement pour des machines de l'époque , une technologie très en avance et qui donne une superbe machine
C'est le top !
J'adore ca ligne !
Vous les americains , vous êtes des champions , surtout à une époque où la CAO et la DAO n'existaient pas il fallait faire les plans avec des crayons , des règles à calculer ,des compas et des crayons que de travai' , un travail de TITAN mais que de bonheur aujourd'hui de voire le résultat un bel avion.😮