This is Elizabeth's husband, Jed. I am 80 now and flew interceptors against the B-58 on air defense exercises and some training missions. Specifically in the F-102 and F-106. (both delta wing by Conair) I new of no one who ever had a successful intercept on a B-58 who was trying to evade. I have clear memories of attacking from front and their jammers were unbeatable and as you converted to a stern attack, you could see their four burners light and all your overtake went to negative numbers. Great aircraft and beautiful.
My dad was stationed in El Toro, flew the F-9 Panther. He told me about the F-4F, Skyray. How that was the first real supersonic jet the Marines had. Big Delta Wing bird. Almost unheard of these days. My father flew the Panther in Korea. A love- hate relationship. The 'Starfighter's' would out run the F-9's, but needed 12 miles to burn a 'uie'. With the F-4 Skyray, the table was turned.
Unquestionably, one of the most aesthetically beautiful aircraft designs ever conceived, built and flown. Edit: 500 likes... I've never received so much praise for a comment before. Thank you!
One of the greatest aircraft ever built! I loaded nuclear weapons on the B-58 at Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana, 1966-67. Lots of talk about the aircraft but not much about the weapon system? Proud to be one of the very few that worked on this great bomber...
I envy you. You were born at the right time in history. I was born at the wrong time. I have accomplished nothing in my life. Nothing as great as you. Thank you. The only thing I have in common, I was born in 58.
I used to go to Bunker Hill for holidays and remember the B-58s on display. I joined the CAP and spent two summers up there. They let us look into the cockpits. I was going to be drafted in 66 so I joined the Marines and was in Aviation. I worked on F-4 Phantoms.
I was at Bunker Hill AFB in 1968. Loaded the nukes in all kinds of weather and learned a lot about one of the fastest bombers. They used to fly up and fly back testing the early warning system. They were on the ground before they knew that they flew by. Also a night launch was exciting. Watching the four afterburners light up. I was on Guam when they shut down the B-58.
You could reason that the B-58 was too far ahead of its time. The Technology needed to make it a successful Bomber wasn't developed yet. Considering all the monies invested in a Mach 2 bomber since then, they might as well have stuck with the B-58. They would have gotten it right by now. The only constant is the B-52.
Interesting note: One of the most renowned pilots to ever tame a B-58 was Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr, father of Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., more famously known as singer John Denver. Deutschendorf Sr. actually set some of the speed records in the Hustler. While he may have never been able to drive a supersonic strategic bomber, he certainly came by his love of flying honestly. Must have been in the blood...
Enjoy the pretty pictures, but be prepared to learn about all the factual errors that are always in Dark X videos. Don't die on a hill over some "fact" that you learned here.
When I was 11 yrs old Funk&Wagnall sold encyclopedias&the Grocery/Market these books had th "A" book the B-58 was in it,I was hooked on it.It was our first line of defense back then and I LOVED IT!!.♥️
@Ernest Gross. I also built the B58 Husler as a kid, by a company named Linburg. I liked it so much, when something happened to it, I purchased it again, but didn't get a chance to put it together ('cause of puberty). I also was fortunate enough to see one fly overhead, I guess in the late 60s, early 70s?
They had one of these on static display at Chanute AB in Illinois. It was on the south end of the parade ground in front of the base chapel. One of the coolest planes I’ve ever seen. Chanute actually had several cool overlooked planes on display including a B-36, C-133, C-123, a Canberra bomber and a B-66. I remember when the base closed, the B-36 was dismantled and shipped to California.
@Ray Bosanko Yeah, when it wasn't flying, they had to drain all the fuel out of it or it'd leak it all out. When in flight it'd get so hot from the atmospheric friction, that it would close the seams & seal itself from leaking. The very fact that that was actually planned that way, as if it was sealed while on ground, it would crack apart during mach 2.5+ flight. Science!
@Ray Bosanko Those must have been some glorious days to be a Serviceman! Thank GOD for men like yourself, & the women who kept y'all on your toes! I also thank God every day, that I'm an American!!!
A pretty aircraft. I can remember around 1960 I had a toy B-58 Hustler that was certainly more than a foot long, maybe a foot and a half. You could press a tab down and it would "fire" the large pod below, which I thought at the time was a bomb. I also had a missile site that worked on air, and also a spring-fired Nike missile. That period of time featured a lot of such toys.
@Crank Lab Explosion. I too built the B-58 'Hustler', (except mine was 1/48 scale), by an old model company called 'THE LINBURG LINE', and as a young child, one fly high overhead! I knew it was 'cause I was (and still am, a plane lover! Oh, and BTW, 'Crank Lab Explosion'? I like that monicker!
One of my aviation mentors, Capt. Bill Hale flew the B-58. He was taking off from Bunker Hill in april 1962 and experienced an un-commanded roll he could not stop. They ejected and sadly one of his crew did not survive. Bill spent his autumn years flying his ultralight airplane on his farm. Stark contrast to his Military and Commercial flying career.
@@touristguy87 Yes, the B-52 is vulnerable to SAMs, but it can also hug the ground without too much difficulty. And if all else fails, you can also load it up with cruise missiles that you can launch at a distance (e.g. the Hound Dog).
I have had the privilege of hearing four J79's on this aircraft under power. My father was in the USAF and our family was stationed at a base that would receive these B-58's on the regular. Our house was located in a neighborhood 2 miles off the end of one of the runways. We had all types of aircraft flying over - F-4's, F-106's, B-52's, C-130's - you name it for the era (1968-70). You knew when a Hustler was in the neighborhood. The planes of today are cool. But to see and hear a Hustler leaving the base was a surreal and exciting moment in time. It was like witnessing an alien spaceship, a loud one. It's something I will never forget.
I grew up in the Ft. Worth area and my dad worked at General Dynamics from 1957-1973. I remember the sonic booms VERY well. GD and Carswell AFB share a runway.
In the USAF museum in Dayton, the XB-70 is certainly the most striking plane, but the 2nd most interesting plane might be the B-58. The B-36 is shockingly big, and everybody loves the SR-71s, but the B-58 is a shiny metal art deco steampunk nuclear bomber out of a comic book. It looks like you took some kind of '60s jet fighter and enlarged it. You don't go to the museum to look at the B-58, but you have to go past it to get to the XB-70. And I always stop and stare at the B-58 for a long time. It blew my mind the last time I went and came home and looked at the Wikipedia page and saw that they made over 100 B-58s - and almost 400 B-36s, and over 700 B-52s. It's staggering to think of the money and industrial capacity that has been devoted purely towards making nuclear bombers. And that's probably nothing compared to the infrastructure required to actually make the bombs. Like the 500-acre uranium enrichment facility in Tennessee. Well, actually there were three facilities, and that was just for the Manhattan project. It's amazing that it's been almost 100 years that humanity has had the technology to destroy the world at the push of a button but we've managed not to. I mean, you'd think somebody would've been crazy enough to end the world by now. But maybe we're better than we give ourselves credit for. 🙂
Sorry Love the XB70 ,We stood under those massive Jet Engines,But that B-58 Hustler has been my favorite since I first saw it in a book WOW!!,But love both♥️
The bombs were (surprisingly) much less expensive than the bombers. It’s a huge part of why we mostly switched to missiles. Missiles, especially minutemen, were CHEAP in comparison.
@@dgarcia0rivera When you think about it it's not that surprising. Obviously aircraft are expensive, but the average military jet also requires 4 hours of maintenance per flight hour. I'm sure bombers are more than that. I assume the reason B-52s are quickly approaching 100 years in service is mostly because they have the maintenance really sorted out. Those missiles just sit in a cornfield and only require a couple people to be on call, right? But ... I know the early ICBMs had crazy fuel situations. I think they needed to keep the fuel (LOX?) refrigerated then pump it into the rocket as they were getting ready to launch, right?
I was lucky enough to see one while stationed at a B-52 base a long time ago. It was parked at a fighter squadron area and I recognized it immediately. It is surely one of the most beautiful aircraft I've ever seen.
No kidding. I'm trying to imagine how that conversation even went down. "So, does anyone have any suggestions for a docile and readily available animal that we can test this ejection seat on?"
low altitude, the b58 was very fast low down and was very difficult to detect at under 250ft and over 700mph there is no doubt the Russians woud of found it hard too, if the air force could of built the cruise missile but ten years earlier then the B58s carrying it would of made them s..t their pants.
There is still the rumor of a Soviet spy placing a altitude/timer activated bomb in Powers aircraft's tail when the Soviet missiles didn't really have the capability to intercept in that envelope. It would be interesting to have some of that wreckage to analyze...
When I was in high school, I was on a road trip with a friend’s dad; he was a B-58 pilot. He had some cool stories about that bird and it’s capabilities.
My favorite plane of all time .. the first model aircraft I ever built in 1970 at 4 yrs old with my dad ... remember it to this day .. thanks for the vid !
@@OneMoreDesu Nato Names beginning with F were fighters. The soviet M21 was Fishbed & the Chinese J 7 Fish can. Mig 25 Foxbat Mig 23 Flogger ,etc. Bomber names began with B, (obviously) and so on.
I remember those B-58’s back in the 1960’s. Those sonic booms were something. You had the leading edge of the shockwave followed immediately by the trailing edge.
I was over 20 when the Cold War "ended", When I hear people younger than me talking their social concerns and anxiety I think about the daily threat of nuclear Armageddon with a touch of nostalgia.
@wargent99 Yep, but they had enough back then to drop a few on every city, not to mention the Tzar bomb. The radio active dust clouds n nuclear winter won't leave many survivors. Wonder if those Dumbs are real? I guess I'm not invited. Going to be interesting , will we ever find out the true history or if it is going to be more lies?
@@alwayscensored6871 Except IT ISN'T USELESS... Only the ignorant and misinformed think that it is. It won't just protect you in a nuclear blast either, but a terrorist or accidental chemical explosion as well. True enough if you're simply TOO CLOSE to *any* explosion, nuclear or not, you will not survive. If that is the case, well, duck-n-cover or anything else isn't going to save you, most likely. BUT, in actuality, only a small percentage of victims are or would be within the "instantly killed" area, which is actually pretty small even for nuclear weapons. Even megaton range weapons are survivable if you're at least 5-10 miles away, of course the further the better, and being indoors or behind something to shadow you from being instantly burned by the heat pulse is a huge plus... Military studies showed that even in an all-out nuclear attack taking place in the middle of the day with the city centers full of workers, less than 10% of the population would be instantly killed due to direct effects of nuclear detonations. However, literally MILLIONS would be killed from secondary life threatening injuries, particularly from flying glass. Now if a megaton-range nuclear weapon explodes within 5-10 miles of you, you have little chance, but odds are for MOST people, simply because of geometric laws where the area of a circle increases ENORMOUSLY with distance, MOST people will be outside this "critical radius" and therefore WON'T be "instantly killed". The further away the better your chances, BUT, when you're further away, the greater the likelihood you will see the flash light up wherever you are through the windows, and instantly be drawn to see what happened... Light travels "instantly" across that distance, whereas sound and shock waves are MUCH slower... SO everybody rushes to the windows and stands there gawking at the rising mushroom cloud, while silently the shock wave travelling at first much faster than the speed of sound, but quickly slowing down to the speed of sound or just below, is tearing across the landscape directly towards them. When the shock wave arrives, depending on the weapon size and distance, at the least it will likely shatter the glass and blast it into the gawkers looking out the windows like a shotgun blast to the face... depending on the distance and power of the weapon determines how much damage is done to the building itself-- blast radii are calculated in terms of PSI-- pounds per square inch, and glass shatters into shrapnel at less than 2 psi, well built houses collapse at about 5 psi, concrete buildings are damaged or destroyed at 10 psi, etc. SO, these unfortunate people gawking out the windows will be blinded and sliced to ribbons by thousands of shards of razor-sharp glass by the shock wave, who would have OTHERWISE been JUST FINE had they IMMEDIATELY taken shelter in a safer location... even in damaged or collapsed buildings, as in an earthquake or tornado, sheltering in an interior room with no windows, under a desk, etc will provide essential shelter from falling objects and debris and can mean the difference between surviving uninjured and being horribly maimed and blinded and dying from being shredded and impaled by broken glass... that's why I taught my daughter she ever started school in a suburban area, "If you ever see a bright light or rising mushroom cloud, HIT THE GROUND or GET BEHIND SOMETHING BIG and STAY THERE... DO NOT *EVER* go and look out the windows toward it-- get as far from the windows as possible and stay there... A damaging shock wave can take as long as several MINUTES to arrive after a powerful nuclear detonation, and even smaller chemical or terrorist explosions can take a minute or more to arrive, and still be dangerous in terms of shattered glass injuries, so it's PLENTY OF TIME for people to take shelter from this deadly risk and be COMPLETELY PROTECTED from injury from it... If they're not standing at the windows gawking until it arrives! If in doubt, there's a good video on UA-cam about the Halifax explosion, which was a low-kiloton yield chemical explosion caused by the collision and fire of a cargo ship loaded with conventional chemical explosives being transported to Europe during World War I, which collided with another ship. It literally nearly wiped the town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, off the map, and killed hundreds and injured THOUSANDS, mostly from shattered glass injuries as they stared out of the windows facing the explosion looking at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance, until the shock wave arrived and blew the windows in on them shredding and blinding them... Had they taken cover, they would have mostly been uninjured and survived... Later! OL J R :)
I was one of the last Security Police "Close In Sentries" on one of the last B-58s taken off alert and downloaded at Little Rock AFB in 1970. I may not recall the tail number correctly, I think it was 58-449.
I was born in 1970, & retired from the US Army, 30 years. It's gentlemen like yourself Mr Paul, who paved the way for mine & future generations of Warfighters to carry on the tradition. If you fought in Vietnam, God bless you Sir, that you made it back home! If not, then you're blessed that you didn't have to experience that...living hell of a war.
My parents transferred to Little Rock Air Force Base in 1967 it was all about the the v58. The big thing back then was today a Sonic booms. But when you get right down to it they are still pressing forward out over the Gulf of Mexico with really fantastic planes!!!
in 1968, the honors program field trip from subiaco academy was to LRAFB. we got to go out on the tarmac and see it up close and personal. everyone of us said, "that was cool". thereby enhancing the cool factor i suppose.
Thanks for the video! The B-58 is one of my favorite post WWII aircraft, because it's so beautiful. The delta wing, long sleek body and bare aluminum add up to a gorgeous aircraft. Unfortunately, it became obsolete rather quickly, but from a design stand point, I still find it stunning. The ventral pod, from a design and visual standpoint, detracts from the visual beauty, it was obviously needed to operate successfully.
IMO...one of the greatest airplanes ever manufactured. It looked good.....and that was it. My Dad worked for General Dynamics....he had fond memories of this aircraft
My father was the base chaplain at Grissom AFB, Indians from summer 1966 to summer 1968. I graduated high school in 1968 and my best friend’s father was a B-58 pilot. I loved airplanes and would beg him to tell me stories. I got my private pilot’s license through the base aero club; and once I was going on a cross country flight when I was told by the tower to hold short because there was an alert and the 58s would be taking off. Pretty cool.
Is your father still alive. I am the only child of a killed B-58 crew member stationed at Bunker Hill during that time period. I'd like to learn about my father. Your father might have known him.
My favorite plane as a kid. I had a little die cast model of the B-58 and carried it where ever I went. Gorgeous plane. Too bad it had so many problems.
I remember the B-58 Hustler bombers and some was stationed at Little Rock AFB in the area where I lived. The year they grounded that airplane was one the pilots could breathe a sigh of relief as they moved to other airplanes.
And as I recall, of just several years back, maybe even presently, these (Mig's/Sukhoia's) are the most advanced/ technological aircraft manufactures', and the finest in the world. I think it was the MIG 35, and the Sukhoia 37. Am I correct? If not, can someone update/ correct me, please? I am a considerable plane buff, since I was young, starting with plastic model kits, of the 1960/70s, then multiple books and of course, cable television aircraft documentaries, I.e. (Discovery Wings channel (remember that?)), and of course, the History channel. Not to forget mentioning, aircraft series docs., like 'Clash of Wings', and so forth. The United States has finally come up to bat, with such aircraft as the F22 Raptor, and F35 Lighting ll.
The error was calling it Mig-21 instead of J-7, as opposed to calling it Chinese instead of Russian. Compared to Mig-21, J-7 is faster and more maneuverable at high speeds by a small margin, enough to make the difference of barely able to intercept B-58 vs unable to do it. The racist trope that Chinese supposedly only make inferior copies was never actually true - spec wise, they have always been marginally superior to the original in most cases, and significantly superior in the rest (such as Mig-19 to J8II).
Dad worked on them in the late 50s. He even brought home a small scrap of the honeycomb fiberglas/steel/sluminum material. B-58 and B-36 were always my favorites. Hard life working for defense contractors. I changed schools 3 times in the fourth grade and was always the "new kid."
I grew up and still live just north of Milwaukee, WI. My dad used to talk about B-58s breaking the sound barrier out over Lake Michigan. One time he was painting the trim on the front of the house, which is all large windows, when that happened and he said he could see the windows bow in and out a little with the shockwave. I always thought that was a cool story.
I've always thought that the Hustler was one the best looking planes ever made. An unfortunate side note and way before my time, a Hustler crashed east of the city I live in, in southwest Oklahoma.
You can tell a Convair, four jet engines, the cockpit windows etc. Convair still holds the record for the fastest conventional airliner, apart from the Concorde, if my memory is correct......
My grandfather (call sign "Slim Jim" ) was a B58 pilot for Convair. He wasn't scared of it in the least. He flew with John Denver's father (Col Dutchendorf IIRC) and my father went to the rival high school to a young John Dutchendorf(Denver) living in the Westwood Hills area just southeast of the main runway there at the former Carswell AFB. I still have many Hustler memorabilia from him including tie tacks, cuff links and all sorts of manuals and photos. I also still have a wood model sitting in one of my cases. He was there the day Jimmy Stewart showed up and wanted to go supersonic so they stuck him in the back seat, took off, and broke the barrier over the Red River then came back and landed an hour or so later. Late he moved to the F111 project where he retired in 1973.
A little short on the B-52's length...your spec. of 65 feet in length is a tad short it is closer to 160 feet in length. Specifications (B-52H) Boeing B-52H Stratofortress.png B-52H profile, circa 1987 Boeing B-52H static display with weapons, Barksdale AFB 2006. A second B-52H can be seen in flight in the background Data from Knaack,[274] USAF fact sheet,[198] Quest for Performance[275] General characteristics Crew: 5 (pilot, copilot, weapon systems officer, navigator, electronic warfare officer) Length: 159 ft 4 in (48.5 m) Wingspan: 185 ft 0 in (56.4 m) Height: 40 ft 8 in (12.4 m) Wing area: 4,000 sq ft (370 m2) Airfoil: NACA 63A219.3 mod root, NACA 65A209.5 tip Empty weight: 185,000 lb (83,250 kg) Loaded weight: 265,000 lb (120,000 kg) Max. takeoff weight: 488,000 lb (220,000 kg) Fuel capacity: 47,975 U.S. gal (39,948 imp gal; 181,610 L) Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0119 (estimated) Drag area: 47.60 sq ft (4.42 m2) Aspect ratio: 8.56 Powerplant: 8 × Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103 turbofans, 17,000 lbf (76 kN) each
"Pilot had to sweep the wings" - wing sweep is a property of the wing's shape, not something pilot-controllable besides on the F14 and other variable-sweep planes. Mach cone- The air is not subsonic inside the cone; oblique shocks do not decelerate flow below sonic speed. The air is slowed w.r.t. the plane, though, so it is most efficient to place all of the plane's structure behind the weak shock cone generated by its nose.
My Dad, a fighter pilot, took me (at 7) aboard a B-58 on the tarmac during a small open house at James Connally AFB in Waco, TX in ~1968. Everything about it was beautiful. It's a real shame that its operational rationale was so short-lived. Just beautiful, engineering issues aside.
We built part of the firing control system for this aircraft. This video brings back memories of my father and our family company that also has parts on the Moon. Thank you for this reminder of my past and the things we made for our wonderful country.
Dark skies delivers again with another great choice of aircraft. Definitely have to appreciate four F104 starfighter engines on a delta wing bomber. Interesting how it so quickly went from being ahead of its time to behind the times. I guess that’s how technology was progressing back then. Thanks again for all of these great aircraft videos.
“In comparison, the B-52 was 64 feet long.” - might want to add about a B-58’s length to that 64’ and I think you’ll be good to go. Haha, simple mistake - figure you accidentally left out a couple words or changed the script and forgot to fix all the corresponding sentences. Thanks for the great videos, really enjoy them. Consider how weird the short/special 747 variants look compared to what you expect to see... now try to picture a B-52 with a normal ~185’ wingspan but with only a 64’ fuselage. Haha.
He does this on alot of videos. But like you said, they're really just editing errors and stuff that he maybe didn't double check. Still very good videos.
I've help design well over 15 flying craft. If the airforce ever shows the Aurora project. It will blow you away. Designed and test flights in 1977. The Aurora, cock pit is liquid filled. Pilots wear dive suits. It's the first man made plazm popluction. In 1977 we had no means to track its forward speed. Mins around the world.
Was stationed at Grissom just after the base name change. God bless the 1915th Comm Sq. The B-58 is louder than the B-52. Awesome aircraft, crews, maintenance. The people, everything I am proud to have served with them all; especially Sgt. Poyser. Rumor was an aircraft exploded at about 2400 mph. Thanks for doing this.
It was beautiful, fast & a widowmaker!!!...I never got to see one fly when I enlisted in the Air Force, but the stories were always out there about this plane..This plane was crazy fast!!!
One of the best things I miss from the 1960s is sonic booms. When you are an army brat living on a military base in 1963, you heard sonic booms all day long. I loved them. Most of the army wife-moms did not. After each boom you could hear babies squalling all over the family housing area. I always thought that was funny as hell. We weren't wimps like the 30 year old immature brats in their mom's basements today. They would crap themselves if they heard a real sonic boom. "Mommy! Where's my binky? I think I soiled myself again."
@videolabguy In the Israeli AF our barracks were about 150 off to one side of the glide path. Almost every night constant noise of Kurnass (Phantoms) and F-16's on final approach not 30m above my head. Slept like a baby. On weekends at home I couldn't sleep well, no fighter jet noises.
About the best Christmas ever when I was a little kid my parents gave both my brother and I toy airplanes. They weren't kit models for assembly, just cheap plastic replicas meant to be played with. I got the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and he got the Convair B-58 Hustler. Both the planes had serious design flaws that made them dangerous to pilots and difficult to operate, but man were they cool! We played with them for years afterwards .
There is a story out there about a Hustler invading Soviet airspace. Getting shot up, and return home without mishap. We went to a lot of effort before the days of satellites.
I have always loved the B-58 Hustler. When I was in basic they had a tradition of each class picking a model to hang in the main meeting room. I chose the Hustler and everyone loved it, even the TI. I agree with many, it just has that stupendous cool factor that I have yet to see mastered by almost any other aircraft. Maybe the X-15 but that is a different bird altogether.
General Dynamics which took over Convair, took parts off the B-58s sitting the desert in Arizona and used them on the first F-16's to keep the cost down.
I used to be an engine mechanic of the B-58 Hustler. 10,500 pounds of thrust from each engine. It was so fast that it could burn the decals off the skin of the aircraft due to the friction with the air.
@Ben Thompson The B 58 is still the fastest Mach 2 Substained supersonic bomber! Faster than the current B-1 B bomber “Lancer” that has been reduced in speed!
Witnessed fully loaded alert drills down the runway at Bunker Hill AFB 1966-67 but none ever took off. We knew if one ever took off it would be bad news for all of us during those days of the "cold wars".
I remember B-58's going over my hometown in Missouri, back in the early to mid-60's. Even at high altitude you could tell what they were. Bright and shinny, and the distinct shape. Then BOOM, the sonic boom would hit. lol Little later I had a plastic model of one, it was always my favorite jet bomber. :-)
This is Elizabeth's husband, Jed. I am 80 now and flew interceptors against the B-58 on air defense exercises and some training missions. Specifically in the F-102 and F-106. (both delta wing by Conair) I new of no one who ever had a successful intercept on a B-58 who was trying to evade. I have clear memories of attacking from front and their jammers were unbeatable and as you converted to a stern attack, you could see their four burners light and all your overtake went to negative numbers. Great aircraft and beautiful.
My dad was stationed in El Toro, flew the F-9 Panther.
He told me about the F-4F, Skyray. How that was the first real supersonic jet the Marines had. Big Delta Wing bird. Almost unheard of these days. My father
flew the Panther in Korea.
A love- hate relationship.
The 'Starfighter's' would out run the F-9's, but needed 12 miles to burn a 'uie'.
With the F-4 Skyray, the table was turned.
Thank you for your service sir
I too thank you for your service sir! Especially from what you say We should have done more with the B 58.
Bro u have the same nickname as me😳
Btw thank u for ur service sir
Unquestionably, one of the most aesthetically beautiful aircraft designs ever conceived, built and flown.
Edit: 500 likes... I've never received so much praise for a comment before. Thank you!
A-12 still wins in my book
Look up the F4D Skyray for a real beautiful plane.
Tsr 2 for me, though can find beauty in many
Unquestionably, Concorde
Absolutely. It would look great in all black. Nice name btw
"If a bomber could be judged only on it's coolness factor, the B-58 would still be in service today."
This statement's accuracy is perfect.
It could actually still be relevant with proper fighter support and Wild Weasel anti radiation support too
Inspired my future aviation endeavors
One of the greatest aircraft ever built! I loaded nuclear weapons on the B-58 at Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana, 1966-67. Lots of talk about the aircraft but not much about the weapon system? Proud to be one of the very few that worked on this great bomber...
I envy you. You were born at the right time in history. I was born at the wrong time. I have accomplished nothing in my life. Nothing as great as you. Thank you.
The only thing I have in common, I was born in 58.
I used to go to Bunker Hill for holidays and remember the B-58s on display.
I joined the CAP and spent two summers up there.
They let us look into the cockpits.
I was going to be drafted in 66 so I joined the Marines and was in Aviation.
I worked on F-4 Phantoms.
I was at Bunker Hill AFB in 1968. Loaded the nukes in all kinds of weather and learned a lot about one of the fastest bombers. They used to fly up and fly back testing the early warning system. They were on the ground before they knew that they flew by. Also a night launch was exciting. Watching the four afterburners light up. I was on Guam when they shut down the B-58.
I was at bunker hill spent the night in a tent (army) on the base around 1962 heard a b58 take off scary loud I think it needed a mile to take off.
Were any of you at Bunker Hill during the Broken Arrow incident? I wonder if the radiation is still active where that B-58 was buried?
The B-58 looks as though it is going Mach 2 even when sitting still on the tarmac.
"Hustler" has to be one of the coolest names for any military vehicle ever
And magazines & stripe clubs
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Yes! My favorite jet
Also the F-104 Starfighter. An aircraft that actually resembles its moniker.
@@Blakezilla594 so ugly
B-52: “Don’t worry brother, I will carry your burden as well. As I have always done and will continue to do.”
B-52 is kinda a sad but epic story all its brothers/friends are not used anymore. The B-47, B-36, B-58, B-57 and B-50.
You could reason that the B-58 was too far ahead of its time. The Technology needed to make it a successful Bomber wasn't developed yet. Considering all the monies invested in a Mach 2 bomber since then, they might as well have stuck with the B-58. They would have gotten it right by now. The only constant is the B-52.
The B-58 was a cool plane. It featured heavily in the early 60’s movie “Fail Safe”, one of my favorites.
The Vindicator. Loved that movie. Even Russian missles couldn't stay up with it.
My favorite part about this plane is that it literally has an escape pod
ya... not just an escape pod . . . but 3 of 'em!!
And a tube canister thing like they have at banks lol
No life forms detected though
star wars XD
The F-111 also has an ejection pod, but it's just the entire cockpit that separates
Interesting note: One of the most renowned pilots to ever tame a B-58 was Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr, father of Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., more famously known as singer John Denver.
Deutschendorf Sr. actually set some of the speed records in the Hustler.
While he may have never been able to drive a supersonic strategic bomber, he certainly came by his love of flying honestly. Must have been in the blood...
wow awesome! sad he died in x plane though.
Interesting.... thanks for the info!
Man, you've kept me occupied many a time over this covid drama, thank you for the education from a 29 year old UK lad 🇬🇧
Enjoy the pretty pictures, but be prepared to learn about all the factual errors that are always in Dark X videos. Don't die on a hill over some "fact" that you learned here.
Don’t die for anyone
When I was 11 yrs old Funk&Wagnall sold encyclopedias&the Grocery/Market these books had th "A" book the
B-58 was in it,I was hooked on it.It was our first line of defense back then and I LOVED IT!!.♥️
I suggest you do research on any of these pathetic videos and you will find they are chock full of bull 💩 ...
Sadly it's true.
Always check on the facts in the videos, if you would like to know what and how anything has happened!
I remember building a model of the B-58 Hustler when I was a kid. It really was a totally cool aircraft!
@Ernest Gross. I also built the B58 Husler as a kid, by a company named Linburg. I liked it so much, when something happened to it, I purchased it again, but didn't get a chance to put it together ('cause of puberty). I also was fortunate enough to see one fly overhead, I guess in the late 60s, early 70s?
I had one too. Couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
me too!
@@ssnydess6787 Me three!
Ist model I ever built. Still the wickedest looking plane ever .
They had one of these on static display at Chanute AB in Illinois. It was on the south end of the parade ground in front of the base chapel. One of the coolest planes I’ve ever seen. Chanute actually had several cool overlooked planes on display including a B-36, C-133, C-123, a Canberra bomber and a B-66. I remember when the base closed, the B-36 was dismantled and shipped to California.
I saw the Chanute B58...Incredible
Yeah! My uncle was stationed there in the 70’s and I remember the B-58 and the B-36.
I still have a couple of photos of it, was there 77-78
@Ray Bosanko Yeah, when it wasn't flying, they had to drain all the fuel out of it or it'd leak it all out.
When in flight it'd get so hot from the atmospheric friction, that it would close the seams & seal itself from leaking.
The very fact that that was actually planned that way, as if it was sealed while on ground, it would crack apart during mach 2.5+ flight. Science!
@Ray Bosanko Those must have been some glorious days to be a Serviceman! Thank GOD for men like yourself, & the women who kept y'all on your toes!
I also thank God every day, that I'm an American!!!
I was fortunate to have worked on the B58 at Little Rock AFB the last two years of it’s service life.
My dad was a DSO third seat in the B 58 stationed at Little Rock AFB from I think 62 to 1969. Was at Carswell at first before going to Little Rock.
I was stationed at Lillie rock afb from 11/1964 to12/1968 ground crew on this aircraft it was the best years of my life
A pretty aircraft. I can remember around 1960 I had a toy B-58 Hustler that was certainly more than a foot long, maybe a foot and a half. You could press a tab down and it would "fire" the large pod below, which I thought at the time was a bomb. I also had a missile site that worked on air, and also a spring-fired Nike missile. That period of time featured a lot of such toys.
I remember that model of the B-58. It was made by Monogram, and if I recall they produced a number of action kits as I believe they were called.
My heavens..I had one to..I still love this aircraft as one of the greatest airplanes during my lifetime...such a beautiful design
The Singer John Denver's Father Flew The B 58 he broke speed and Altitude records
Jimmy Stewart flew it too.
@Galileo7of9 Operationally? Okay, if you like asterisks. 😒
@Galileo7of9 He was not exactly a novice. Guy earned his stars.ua-cam.com/video/IYvsjGroa78/v-deo.html
@Galileo7of9 Well, flying front seat is good enough me. Not bad for a reserve guy. Did a nice job on the official film.
@Galileo7of9 he was in front ua-cam.com/video/IYvsjGroa78/v-deo.html
Love the safety ejection seat podss I can't believe how advanced they were back than
Just came back from Pima Air museum to get painting ideas for my 1/72 scale Hustler. Now this video comes out. Perfection.
I went to that same museum just to see the Hustler!
I was there last weekend. I made sure to stop and check it out as it's one of my faves.
How’d your project turn out?
@Crank Lab Explosion. I too built the B-58 'Hustler', (except mine was 1/48 scale), by an old model company called 'THE LINBURG LINE', and as a young child, one fly high overhead! I knew it was 'cause I was (and still am, a plane lover! Oh, and BTW, 'Crank Lab Explosion'? I like that monicker!
One of my aviation mentors, Capt. Bill Hale flew the B-58. He was taking off from Bunker Hill in april 1962 and experienced an un-commanded roll he could not stop. They ejected and sadly one of his crew did not survive. Bill spent his autumn years flying his ultralight airplane on his farm. Stark contrast to his Military and Commercial flying career.
The B-58 was retired for the same reasons the XB-70 wasn’t procured. High costs. Vulnerability to SAMs. Still it was a beautiful aircraft
Hustler+xb-70=XF-108 Rapier
....wait, the B-52 isn't vulnerable to SAMs?
@@touristguy87
Yes, the B-52 is vulnerable to SAMs, but it can also hug the ground without too much difficulty.
And if all else fails, you can also load it up with cruise missiles that you can launch at a distance (e.g. the Hound Dog).
And a horrendous number of them had terrible accidents. Not a good trait for an aircraft.
@@lewiscole5193 like the ones that were used in Desert Storm where over half of them crashed or went off course?
I have had the privilege of hearing four J79's on this aircraft under power. My father was in the USAF and our family was stationed at a base that would receive these B-58's on the regular. Our house was located in a neighborhood 2 miles off the end of one of the runways. We had all types of aircraft flying over - F-4's, F-106's, B-52's, C-130's - you name it for the era (1968-70). You knew when a Hustler was in the neighborhood. The planes of today are cool. But to see and hear a Hustler leaving the base was a surreal and exciting moment in time. It was like witnessing an alien spaceship, a loud one. It's something I will never forget.
I grew up in the Ft. Worth area and my dad worked at General Dynamics from 1957-1973. I remember the sonic booms VERY well. GD and Carswell AFB share a runway.
In the USAF museum in Dayton, the XB-70 is certainly the most striking plane, but the 2nd most interesting plane might be the B-58. The B-36 is shockingly big, and everybody loves the SR-71s, but the B-58 is a shiny metal art deco steampunk nuclear bomber out of a comic book. It looks like you took some kind of '60s jet fighter and enlarged it.
You don't go to the museum to look at the B-58, but you have to go past it to get to the XB-70. And I always stop and stare at the B-58 for a long time. It blew my mind the last time I went and came home and looked at the Wikipedia page and saw that they made over 100 B-58s - and almost 400 B-36s, and over 700 B-52s. It's staggering to think of the money and industrial capacity that has been devoted purely towards making nuclear bombers. And that's probably nothing compared to the infrastructure required to actually make the bombs. Like the 500-acre uranium enrichment facility in Tennessee. Well, actually there were three facilities, and that was just for the Manhattan project. It's amazing that it's been almost 100 years that humanity has had the technology to destroy the world at the push of a button but we've managed not to. I mean, you'd think somebody would've been crazy enough to end the world by now. But maybe we're better than we give ourselves credit for. 🙂
Sorry Love the XB70 ,We stood under those massive Jet Engines,But that B-58 Hustler has been my favorite since I first saw it in a book WOW!!,But love both♥️
They built 2000 B-47s. I’m not making it up.
The bombs were (surprisingly) much less expensive than the bombers. It’s a huge part of why we mostly switched to missiles. Missiles, especially minutemen, were CHEAP in comparison.
@@dgarcia0rivera When you think about it it's not that surprising. Obviously aircraft are expensive, but the average military jet also requires 4 hours of maintenance per flight hour. I'm sure bombers are more than that. I assume the reason B-52s are quickly approaching 100 years in service is mostly because they have the maintenance really sorted out. Those missiles just sit in a cornfield and only require a couple people to be on call, right? But ... I know the early ICBMs had crazy fuel situations. I think they needed to keep the fuel (LOX?) refrigerated then pump it into the rocket as they were getting ready to launch, right?
I was lucky enough to see one while stationed at a B-52 base a long time ago. It was parked at a fighter squadron area and I recognized it immediately. It is surely one of the most beautiful aircraft I've ever seen.
We need to get a hold of that bear ejection footage.
No kidding. I'm trying to imagine how that conversation even went down. "So, does anyone have any suggestions for a docile and readily available animal that we can test this ejection seat on?"
@@10000words1 Imagine being the poor guy who drew the short straw and had to open the pod to see if the bear was ok...
@@10000words1
Some guy sarcastically piped up with, 'Yeah, 'ow abouta bear. Ya know they're real docile and made for flying.'
"...and altitudes that enemy missiles wouldn't be able to reach." Anyone else immediately think: and Francis Gary Powers enters the chat... ?
low altitude, the b58 was very fast low down and was very difficult to detect at under 250ft and over 700mph there is no doubt the Russians woud of found it hard too, if the air force could of built the cruise missile but ten years earlier then the B58s carrying it would of made them s..t their pants.
... and speeds. A U-2 wasn't moving a 1000 mph. Still ... but Gary Powers never came to mind. The SR-71 did though
There is still the rumor of a Soviet spy placing a altitude/timer activated bomb in Powers aircraft's tail when the Soviet missiles didn't really have the capability to intercept in that envelope. It would be interesting to have some of that wreckage to analyze...
@@ssnydess6787 ... yeah ...
When I was in high school, I was on a road trip with a friend’s dad; he was a B-58 pilot. He had some cool stories about that bird and it’s capabilities.
My favorite plane of all time .. the first model aircraft I ever built in 1970 at 4 yrs old with my dad ... remember it to this day .. thanks for the vid !
Great video as always! But MIG-21 NATO codename "Fishbed" was a Russian design. Though Chinese airforce did use it. Just a small detail.
Maybe the Chinese made modifications that made their models faster than the ones flown by the Russian air force?
Fishbeds were the nickname of the platform regardless of model.
The Chinese did make MiG-21 derivatives. But designated them J-7's (also known as F-7's). NATO codename 'Fishcan'.
@@joeottsoulbikes415 Nope.
@@OneMoreDesu Nato Names beginning with F were fighters. The soviet M21 was Fishbed & the Chinese J 7 Fish can. Mig 25 Foxbat Mig 23 Flogger ,etc.
Bomber names began with B, (obviously) and so on.
I remember those B-58’s back in the 1960’s. Those sonic booms were something. You had the leading edge of the shockwave followed immediately by the trailing edge.
One of the most beautiful supersonic aircraft ever deployed.
I was over 20 when the Cold War "ended", When I hear people younger than me talking their social concerns and anxiety I think about the daily threat of nuclear Armageddon with a touch of nostalgia.
Duck n cover, even as kids we knew that was useless.
Ah, I remember that. When a job that came with it's own nuclear bunker was one with a future.
@wargent99 Yep, but they had enough back then to drop a few on every city, not to mention the Tzar bomb. The radio active dust clouds n nuclear winter won't leave many survivors. Wonder if those Dumbs are real? I guess I'm not invited. Going to be interesting , will we ever find out the true history or if it is going to be more lies?
@@alwayscensored6871 Except IT ISN'T USELESS... Only the ignorant and misinformed think that it is. It won't just protect you in a nuclear blast either, but a terrorist or accidental chemical explosion as well. True enough if you're simply TOO CLOSE to *any* explosion, nuclear or not, you will not survive. If that is the case, well, duck-n-cover or anything else isn't going to save you, most likely. BUT, in actuality, only a small percentage of victims are or would be within the "instantly killed" area, which is actually pretty small even for nuclear weapons. Even megaton range weapons are survivable if you're at least 5-10 miles away, of course the further the better, and being indoors or behind something to shadow you from being instantly burned by the heat pulse is a huge plus... Military studies showed that even in an all-out nuclear attack taking place in the middle of the day with the city centers full of workers, less than 10% of the population would be instantly killed due to direct effects of nuclear detonations. However, literally MILLIONS would be killed from secondary life threatening injuries, particularly from flying glass. Now if a megaton-range nuclear weapon explodes within 5-10 miles of you, you have little chance, but odds are for MOST people, simply because of geometric laws where the area of a circle increases ENORMOUSLY with distance, MOST people will be outside this "critical radius" and therefore WON'T be "instantly killed". The further away the better your chances, BUT, when you're further away, the greater the likelihood you will see the flash light up wherever you are through the windows, and instantly be drawn to see what happened... Light travels "instantly" across that distance, whereas sound and shock waves are MUCH slower... SO everybody rushes to the windows and stands there gawking at the rising mushroom cloud, while silently the shock wave travelling at first much faster than the speed of sound, but quickly slowing down to the speed of sound or just below, is tearing across the landscape directly towards them. When the shock wave arrives, depending on the weapon size and distance, at the least it will likely shatter the glass and blast it into the gawkers looking out the windows like a shotgun blast to the face... depending on the distance and power of the weapon determines how much damage is done to the building itself-- blast radii are calculated in terms of PSI-- pounds per square inch, and glass shatters into shrapnel at less than 2 psi, well built houses collapse at about 5 psi, concrete buildings are damaged or destroyed at 10 psi, etc. SO, these unfortunate people gawking out the windows will be blinded and sliced to ribbons by thousands of shards of razor-sharp glass by the shock wave, who would have OTHERWISE been JUST FINE had they IMMEDIATELY taken shelter in a safer location... even in damaged or collapsed buildings, as in an earthquake or tornado, sheltering in an interior room with no windows, under a desk, etc will provide essential shelter from falling objects and debris and can mean the difference between surviving uninjured and being horribly maimed and blinded and dying from being shredded and impaled by broken glass... that's why I taught my daughter she ever started school in a suburban area, "If you ever see a bright light or rising mushroom cloud, HIT THE GROUND or GET BEHIND SOMETHING BIG and STAY THERE... DO NOT *EVER* go and look out the windows toward it-- get as far from the windows as possible and stay there... A damaging shock wave can take as long as several MINUTES to arrive after a powerful nuclear detonation, and even smaller chemical or terrorist explosions can take a minute or more to arrive, and still be dangerous in terms of shattered glass injuries, so it's PLENTY OF TIME for people to take shelter from this deadly risk and be COMPLETELY PROTECTED from injury from it... If they're not standing at the windows gawking until it arrives!
If in doubt, there's a good video on UA-cam about the Halifax explosion, which was a low-kiloton yield chemical explosion caused by the collision and fire of a cargo ship loaded with conventional chemical explosives being transported to Europe during World War I, which collided with another ship. It literally nearly wiped the town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, off the map, and killed hundreds and injured THOUSANDS, mostly from shattered glass injuries as they stared out of the windows facing the explosion looking at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance, until the shock wave arrived and blew the windows in on them shredding and blinding them... Had they taken cover, they would have mostly been uninjured and survived... Later! OL J R :)
I was one of the last Security Police "Close In Sentries" on one of the last B-58s taken off alert and downloaded at Little Rock AFB in 1970. I may not recall the tail number correctly, I think it was 58-449.
I was born in 1970, & retired from the US Army, 30 years.
It's gentlemen like yourself Mr Paul, who paved the way for mine & future generations of Warfighters to carry on the tradition.
If you fought in Vietnam, God bless you Sir, that you made it back home! If not, then you're blessed that you didn't have to experience that...living hell of a war.
@Common Sense Realist & boots so shiny, you could pluck your nose hairs from the reflection!
@Common Sense Realist I retired July of '19, & I can confirm discipline was quite lacking. Not all the time, but more than I'd like to admit...
My parents transferred to Little Rock Air Force Base in 1967 it was all about the the v58. The big thing back then was today a Sonic booms. But when you get right down to it they are still pressing forward out over the Gulf of Mexico with really fantastic planes!!!
in 1968, the honors program field trip from subiaco academy was to LRAFB. we got to go out on the tarmac and see it up close and personal. everyone of us said, "that was cool". thereby enhancing the cool factor i suppose.
Thanks for the video! The B-58 is one of my favorite post WWII aircraft, because it's so beautiful. The delta wing, long sleek body and bare aluminum add up to a gorgeous aircraft. Unfortunately, it became obsolete rather quickly, but from a design stand point, I still find it stunning. The ventral pod, from a design and visual standpoint, detracts from the visual beauty, it was obviously needed to operate successfully.
One of the world’s most beautiful aircraft.
What a hot rod! Easily my favorite airframe of any plane
IMO...one of the greatest airplanes ever manufactured. It looked good.....and that was it. My Dad worked for General Dynamics....he had fond memories of this aircraft
I worked at General Dynamics from 81 to 91. The F-16 was being built at that time. However, GD is now Lockheed Martin where my pension comes.
This is undoubtedly one of the top 10 documentaries on the channel. The ending was perfect!
B-58 was always one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built. I remember seeing it at Bunker Hill AFB as a kid.
My father was the base chaplain at Grissom AFB, Indians from summer 1966 to summer 1968. I graduated high school in 1968 and my best friend’s father was a B-58 pilot. I loved airplanes and would beg him to tell me stories. I got my private pilot’s license through the base aero club; and once I was going on a cross country flight when I was told by the tower to hold short because there was an alert and the 58s would be taking off. Pretty cool.
...Grissom AFB, Indiana...
Is your father still alive. I am the only child of a killed B-58 crew member stationed at Bunker Hill during that time period. I'd like to learn about my father. Your father might have known him.
My favorite plane as a kid. I had a little die cast model of the B-58 and carried it where ever I went. Gorgeous plane. Too bad it had so many problems.
I remember the B-58 Hustler bombers and some was stationed at Little Rock AFB in the area where I lived. The year they grounded that airplane was one the pilots could breathe a sigh of relief as they moved to other airplanes.
MiG stands for Mikoyan Gureyvich, a decidedly un-chinese name. That's typically why MiG's and Sukhoi's are considered Soviet/Russian planes.
The *Russian* MiG-21, as you note. The Chinese copies of the MiG-21 are the Chengdu J7 and F7.
And as I recall, of just several years back, maybe even presently, these (Mig's/Sukhoia's) are the most advanced/ technological aircraft manufactures', and the finest in the world. I think it was the MIG 35, and the Sukhoia 37. Am I correct? If not, can someone update/ correct me, please? I am a considerable plane buff, since I was young, starting with plastic model kits, of the 1960/70s, then multiple books and of course, cable television aircraft documentaries, I.e. (Discovery Wings channel (remember that?)), and of course, the History channel. Not to forget mentioning, aircraft series docs., like 'Clash of Wings', and so forth. The United States has finally come up to bat, with such aircraft as the F22 Raptor, and F35 Lighting ll.
The error was calling it Mig-21 instead of J-7, as opposed to calling it Chinese instead of Russian. Compared to Mig-21, J-7 is faster and more maneuverable at high speeds by a small margin, enough to make the difference of barely able to intercept B-58 vs unable to do it. The racist trope that Chinese supposedly only make inferior copies was never actually true - spec wise, they have always been marginally superior to the original in most cases, and significantly superior in the rest (such as Mig-19 to J8II).
@@georgedang449
Except the MiG 19 copies are J-6 and Q-5.
Dad worked on them in the late 50s. He even brought home a small scrap of the honeycomb fiberglas/steel/sluminum material. B-58 and B-36 were always my favorites. Hard life working for defense contractors. I changed schools 3 times in the fourth grade and was always the "new kid."
Excellent, exactly what my Monday needs : a beating with the Dark baton, cheers man, love the period footage !
Convair did some simply Gorgeous Aircraft in their time .
It has to be one of the coolest looking planes ever!
You can see that the B-1 really took a lot of design cues from this plane. Never noticed that til I watched this video.
Thought I was the only on that noticed.. Love the lancer she's fine as hell.
Its definitely in my top 5 favorite military aircraft. It looks amazing, it's stupid fast, and it was called "the hustler".
I grew up and still live just north of Milwaukee, WI. My dad used to talk about B-58s breaking the sound barrier out over Lake Michigan. One time he was painting the trim on the front of the house, which is all large windows, when that happened and he said he could see the windows bow in and out a little with the shockwave. I always thought that was a cool story.
I've always thought that the Hustler was one the best looking planes ever made. An unfortunate side note and way before my time, a Hustler crashed east of the city I live in, in southwest Oklahoma.
That’s one badass-looking plane.
You can tell a Convair, four jet engines, the cockpit windows etc.
Convair still holds the record for the fastest conventional airliner, apart from the Concorde, if my memory is correct......
At the end the pilot said he was always scared. Sometimes being scared is what brings you back alive!
That was wonderful. And I particularly admire the final quote. Thanks for this.
My grandfather (call sign "Slim Jim" ) was a B58 pilot for Convair. He wasn't scared of it in the least. He flew with John Denver's father (Col Dutchendorf IIRC) and my father went to the rival high school to a young John Dutchendorf(Denver) living in the Westwood Hills area just southeast of the main runway there at the former Carswell AFB. I still have many Hustler memorabilia from him including tie tacks, cuff links and all sorts of manuals and photos. I also still have a wood model sitting in one of my cases. He was there the day Jimmy Stewart showed up and wanted to go supersonic so they stuck him in the back seat, took off, and broke the barrier over the Red River then came back and landed an hour or so later. Late he moved to the F111 project where he retired in 1973.
A little short on the B-52's length...your spec. of 65 feet in length is a tad short it is closer to 160 feet in length.
Specifications (B-52H)
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B-52H profile, circa 1987
Boeing B-52H static display with weapons, Barksdale AFB 2006. A second B-52H can be seen in flight in the background
Data from Knaack,[274] USAF fact sheet,[198] Quest for Performance[275]
General characteristics
Crew: 5 (pilot, copilot, weapon systems officer, navigator, electronic warfare officer)
Length: 159 ft 4 in (48.5 m)
Wingspan: 185 ft 0 in (56.4 m)
Height: 40 ft 8 in (12.4 m)
Wing area: 4,000 sq ft (370 m2)
Airfoil: NACA 63A219.3 mod root, NACA 65A209.5 tip
Empty weight: 185,000 lb (83,250 kg)
Loaded weight: 265,000 lb (120,000 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 488,000 lb (220,000 kg)
Fuel capacity: 47,975 U.S. gal (39,948 imp gal; 181,610 L)
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0119 (estimated)
Drag area: 47.60 sq ft (4.42 m2)
Aspect ratio: 8.56
Powerplant: 8 × Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103 turbofans, 17,000 lbf (76 kN) each
At Grissom Air Museum in Indiana is the oldest B-58 Hustler. Tail number 55-0663 is the 4th Hustler made. It is a beautiful aircraft.
"Pilot had to sweep the wings" - wing sweep is a property of the wing's shape, not something pilot-controllable besides on the F14 and other variable-sweep planes.
Mach cone- The air is not subsonic inside the cone; oblique shocks do not decelerate flow below sonic speed. The air is slowed w.r.t. the plane, though, so it is most efficient to place all of the plane's structure behind the weak shock cone generated by its nose.
I built a plastic model of the b58 when I was 8. Love the old cold war airplanes.
It's such a gorgeous aeroplane. Do the Avro Vulcan please!
@Jerrol Hale The arvo vulcan seems like it's just the hustler, but way more stabler.
@@doggo_woo vulcan is not even close. Top speed was 650mph. Neat bomber but was 1st gen
@@crabtrap I meant as in the design.
My Dad, a fighter pilot, took me (at 7) aboard a B-58 on the tarmac during a small open house at James Connally AFB in Waco, TX in ~1968. Everything about it was beautiful. It's a real shame that its operational rationale was so short-lived. Just beautiful, engineering issues aside.
I hit the like button before I even watched cuz I knew it was good
that makes two of us!
@@ezsog8903 one of the best vids yet
You made a wise choice my friend.
Straight up!
Same
We built part of the firing control system for this aircraft. This video brings back memories of my father and our family company that also has parts on the Moon. Thank you for this reminder of my past and the things we made for our wonderful country.
Dark skies delivers again with another great choice of aircraft. Definitely have to appreciate four F104 starfighter engines on a delta wing bomber. Interesting how it so quickly went from being ahead of its time to behind the times. I guess that’s how technology was progressing back then. Thanks again for all of these great aircraft videos.
Smoking howling J79s powered just about all of the premier supersonic aircraft of the day. F4, F104, A5 Vigilante and the B58
I grew up watching and hearing the Sonic Booms of the B-58 Hustlers.
“In comparison, the B-52 was 64 feet long.” - might want to add about a B-58’s length to that 64’ and I think you’ll be good to go.
Haha, simple mistake - figure you accidentally left out a couple words or changed the script and forgot to fix all the corresponding sentences. Thanks for the great videos, really enjoy them.
Consider how weird the short/special 747 variants look compared to what you expect to see... now try to picture a B-52 with a normal ~185’ wingspan but with only a 64’ fuselage. Haha.
He does this on alot of videos. But like you said, they're really just editing errors and stuff that he maybe didn't double check.
Still very good videos.
Exactly!!
Well that makes me feel better. I was thinking " that can't be right ".....
That's one mean looking plane. One of my all time favorites.
*“B-58 Hustler”*
I doubt there’s ever been a cooler name given to a plane, it’s pure sex. 💄💋
Sexiest Aircraft ever ...
I've help design well over 15 flying craft. If the airforce ever shows the Aurora project. It will blow you away. Designed and test flights in 1977. The Aurora, cock pit is liquid filled. Pilots wear dive suits. It's the first man made plazm popluction. In 1977 we had no means to track its forward speed. Mins around the world.
Frank Smith are you serious?
Martin B-57 Penthouse Forums?
One of the most beautiful aircraft ever to take the skies.
Best part of my day is when I get a notification saying DS has a new video up !!!
Was stationed at Grissom just after the base name change. God bless the 1915th Comm Sq. The B-58 is louder than the B-52. Awesome aircraft, crews, maintenance. The people, everything I am proud to have served with them all; especially Sgt. Poyser. Rumor was an aircraft exploded at about 2400 mph. Thanks for doing this.
Would be great to see stories about french aircrafts like the Mirage series which saw a lot of combat , for example the Mirage III in the 6 days war .
@LaMich A Mirage flown by Israeli fighter pilot Giora Epstein holds the world record of 17 confirmed air to air kills. French build some good jets.
Why? Dark Dork will just get all the facts wrong like he does in all his 💩 videos.
It was beautiful, fast & a widowmaker!!!...I never got to see one fly when I enlisted in the Air Force, but the stories were always out there about this plane..This plane was crazy fast!!!
I would have loved to see them try to get a bear in that emergency pod.
It was a very sedated bear.
Oh ok because what just went through my mind wasn't good 🤣🤣🤣
I'd be more worried about the guy who had to get the very angry bear out of it 😁
Rite lmao me too
Booboo, not Yogi.
From all the planes, the B58 and the F8 crusader are truly the most beautiful planes ever.
One of my first plastic model airplanes I made as a child was the B-58 Hustler. I thought it was one of the coolest looking planes ever.
This has been a favorite of mine since I was a child.
One of the best things I miss from the 1960s is sonic booms. When you are an army brat living on a military base in 1963, you heard sonic booms all day long. I loved them. Most of the army wife-moms did not. After each boom you could hear babies squalling all over the family housing area. I always thought that was funny as hell. We weren't wimps like the 30 year old immature brats in their mom's basements today. They would crap themselves if they heard a real sonic boom. "Mommy! Where's my binky? I think I soiled myself again."
@videolabguy In the Israeli AF our barracks were about 150 off to one side of the glide path. Almost every night constant noise of Kurnass (Phantoms) and F-16's on final approach not 30m above my head. Slept like a baby. On weekends at home I couldn't sleep well, no fighter jet noises.
Imagine using occasional loud sounds in your childhood as a sign of manhood.
Pathetic.
About the best Christmas ever when I was a little kid my parents gave both my brother and I toy airplanes. They weren't kit models for assembly, just cheap plastic replicas meant to be played with. I got the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and he got the Convair B-58 Hustler. Both the planes had serious design flaws that made them dangerous to pilots and difficult to operate, but man were they cool! We played with them for years afterwards .
There is a story out there about a Hustler invading Soviet airspace. Getting shot up, and return home without mishap.
We went to a lot of effort before the days of satellites.
The story is BS. I was a weapons specialist on the B-58 and can tell you no such thing ever happened.
@@pops91710 hes prbably thinking of the B-29 story, which did happen
I have always loved the B-58 Hustler. When I was in basic they had a tradition of each class picking a model to hang in the main meeting room. I chose the Hustler and everyone loved it, even the TI. I agree with many, it just has that stupendous cool factor that I have yet to see mastered by almost any other aircraft. Maybe the X-15 but that is a different bird altogether.
Still a beautiful plane even after all these years!
What a gorgeous airplane. Just looks bad ass.
General Dynamics which took over Convair, took parts off the B-58s sitting the desert in Arizona and used them on the first F-16's to keep the cost down.
Nuts and Bolts?
I used to be an engine mechanic of the B-58 Hustler. 10,500 pounds of thrust from each engine. It was so fast that it could burn the decals off the skin of the aircraft due to the friction with the air.
@Ben Thompson
The B 58 is still the fastest Mach 2 Substained supersonic bomber! Faster than the current B-1 B bomber “Lancer” that has been reduced in speed!
"the hustler never saw combat" thats a good thing for the whole world lol
Witnessed fully loaded alert drills down the runway at Bunker Hill AFB 1966-67 but none ever took off. We knew if one ever took off it would be bad news for all of us during those days of the "cold wars".
Most beautiful plane ever built.
That thing looks BAD ASS!
It's got 4 phantom engines. That's bad ass.
I remember B-58's going over my hometown in Missouri, back in the early to mid-60's. Even at high altitude you could tell what they were. Bright and shinny, and the distinct shape. Then BOOM, the sonic boom would hit. lol Little later I had a plastic model of one, it was always my favorite jet bomber. :-)
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This was my favorite bomber growing up.
Growing up in the 50s I thought this was the neatest plane that was ever made the came the sr 71. I changed my mind😂
The 58 looks better than the 71 to me.
I worked on the B-52 , B-58, and the SR-71 ....... they all had camera's.
The Hustler had to be the best-looking bomber ever made.
I loved ♥ this aircraft and had the opportunity to see it in operation at a SAC base. Beautiful aircraft, but Wow a maintenance nightmare.
2 wings Bunker Hill AFB and Little Rock AFB, they started out at Carswell in Fort Worth TX. And yes it was a hanger queen.
I saw a B-58 Hustler in person at the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ. Awesome ahead of its time aircraft.
The forebear to the B-1B
one of my first models as a kid, still love the design
SAC Commanding General Curtis E. Le May after test-flying the Hustler: "It didn`t fit my arse"
It looks amazing with its 4 engine layout and shiny exterior