I very much appreciate this video. I lived at Edwards, AFB during my high school years back in the 1990’s. 1950’s aviation was still then omnipresent. Jimmy Doolittle III was my next door neighbor. When he wasn’t yelling at me for doing lawn work in an unsafe manner, he’d tell me stories about his grandfather. I saw Chuck Yeager drive through my neighborhood (his old neighborhood) a couple of times. I watched him break the sound barrier 50 years after his initial record setting flight. My dad was vice base commander and so I was fortunate to meet many of the “Right Stuff” era pilots. My high school field trips were the stuff of dreams like going one night to observe an SR-71’s engine test or going to use the altitude chamber, or going to the flight line to watch a returning space shuttle. And after having this charmed childhood steeped in Air Force history, I went and joined the Army.
They have one at the Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio as well. I absolutely loved it. One of the main reasons i even made the 5 hour drive there. One of my favorite planes.
@@theatomiccafe8996 One of those two is the one from Chanute AFB where I climbed around on it as a kid back in the mid-70s before it ended up in the museum there which eventually closed. It was a sexy, awesome aircraft. My dad was a Tech (eventually Master) Sergeant in the USAF so I got to see and touch, firsthand, some of the coolest inventory in past AF history.
Fun fact: Lt. Col John Deutschendorf is the late singer John Denver's father. Denver was a stage name. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr was his real name. Great video and channel.
Fantastic find! Jimmy Stewart was basically playing himself in "Strategic Air Command", and he reportedly had a touch of PTSD from his B-24 flying when filming "It's a Wonderful Life", so he's not really acting when he looks stricken with fear at times in that movie.
I saw this plane in tech school at Chanute A.F.B. in 1969.It was on display outside,just as you entered the base.I was being trained as an ejection seat mechanic,officially called Egress Systems mechanicand our instructer wanted us to know about it's egress system.It was no longer in commission but it's system was different,having a capsule that the pilot would use to punch out at very high altitudes.The capsule was needed to protect him at that height.
Few know that Jimmy Stewert was one of the very few pilots that after WW2 stayed on in the Reserves until they forced him to retire, and once again he was unique in that he was "checked out" on every aircraft that was in use by the Air Services. I write Air Services in that I don't feel like looking up the various names that were used before the USAF was established.
I was telling my wife that the other day actually. Jimmy Stewert was a great man. Doesnt get the credit he deserves these days in my opinion. You certainly wont find many of his type in hollywood now....
Very good post! A favorite aircraft and one of my all time favorite actors. My father was a B-24 Crew Chief during WWII stationed in North Africa, Turkey and Italy. Keep it up.
The B 58 Hustler is my favorite plane of all time. This past summer, I went to the National Museum of the United States Airforce in Dayton, Ohio. As a former pilot, I was awestruck of the beauty of this aircraft. I would have been in aviation heaven if I ever got a chance to pilot this fantastic remnant of the Cold War era.
The British Vulcan bomber was designed as a straight V-Delta in the early fifties but found that by using different V-Delta variants along the the wing it could achieve much more. Towards the wing root it was more akin to a normal wing providing good lift at take off and landing, this also housed the Rolls-Royce engines. The rest of the wing provided good lift for weight ratio. Each part of the wing was suited to a particular requirement of the operational aspect of the aircraft. As it was designed so soon after WWII it leaned heavily on German research.
I had the pleasure of watching the Canadian Vulcans take off right over my house at the east end of Fairchild AFB in the 1960's during bomb comp. They are indeed a sight to see. I also got to see them up close when I had to go out to the flightline to work on some of our snow removal equipment.
Good video! I grew up in the 60’s and was stationed at Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana. I played little league baseball and Hustlers was our team name. Lots of B-58’s were there.
I went from active duty to the reserves at Grissom, AFB. Bunker Hill, in the day. Hangers were built for The Hustler. Over the years, the base and hangars were changed to KC-135Rs. I miss that life.
Stewart could fly anything he wanted. What a cool dude he had to be. That Firefly bomber broke up during a Paris airshow a couple years later. The crew that got the trophies had flown it to Paris and the secondary crew did a barrel roll and broke up 3 miles north of the show. Engines ripped off from aggressive maneuvers or metal fatigue or something.
When Jimmy says that the B-58 can scramble in two minutes, twice as fast as other bombers, it is hard to comprehend, with 4 engines and start carts! And a B-52, and B-47, could do it in 4, with 8, and 6 engines? Hell man, I could not do a two minute scramble in a single engine Saratoga! Not, if I am to run the full check list!
I grew up near Bergstrom AFB in Austin, Tx. when they were SAC, TAC and Texas Air Reserve. Our neighborhood was located west of BAFB about 21/2 air miles away in the prevailing wind landing direction of the base. I was able to view B58 bombers in final landing approach over the neighborhood, well under 1000 foot altitude. It was always impressive.
JIMMY STEWART WHAT A GREAT GUY A FINE ACTOR AND FLYING AROUND WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAHAHA WHAT A BAD ASS THESE CANDY ASSES COULDN'T DO THAT THESE DAYS !!!!!!
The external stores stowage pod always has messed with my head; I understand why, but it seems to me that if you design a bomber that can't carry bombs, well, you've missed the point.
@@Yeaggghurte probably no more so than the F-105; the Thunderchief was originally designed to do pretty much the same mission - high speed penetration nuclear weapon delivery. The 'Thud's' claim to fame, though, was as a conventional bomb truck. Problem is, the B-58 was very much more expensive, so was never used that way.
@@lairdcummings9092 one of the Thuds real benefits was its low level max speed.. it could really cook at low level. Love the Thud as much as the Hustler.. hell I love most all aircraft.
One of my instructors at the Air Force Academy had flown the B-58. When we asked him why it had been taken out of service he said, "Well, the plan had been to station them around the periphery of the Soviet Union but the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis took that option off the table. Now, to bomb Moscow from Little Rock was going to take three aerial refuelings. The one over Canada on the way in wasn't going to be too bad, and the one over Iran on the way out was doable, but the one over Murmansk was gonna be a bitch."
Of the Cold War Jets the B-58 and the EE Lightning would have to be the most audacious and stunning looking. The performance of both of them was amazing. The J-79 that powered the B-58 (and many others) was a marvel itself and is still in use today. In particular on the B-58 the application of Whitcomb's Area Rule as shown by the very agreeable narrowing of the fuselage about the wings was copied by soft drink and car manufactures to great effect in the 1960s. Form Follows Function - on jets at least LOL. The B-58 is very dramatic looking. I'm infatuated by them. edit: Also fun fact?? (if true), I read that they required 150hrs maintenance for every flight hour. If so, no wonder they quietly disappeared after a relatively short service life.
Everything is relative. Missiles of the day were, to be charmingly understated, 'somewhat random.' Add to that the fear and loathing pilots had for missiles, which were at the time being considered the replacement for everything manned, and you can understand the dig.
@@lairdcummings9092 I understand perfectly; the military loves to spend huge amounts of taxpayer dollars because of personal beliefs, let's Collett ideology. Especially if it's against some other branch of the military
Texas to California at the speed of sound never more that 500 feet above the ground? There had to have been some allowances for the Rocky Mountains. Could a pilot actually follow the terrain at that speed and altitude?
It looks like this plane can outperform the F-111 and B1 Lancer in terms of performance. Just install the best and latest avionics, radar, engines and weapons system and this plane can be a formidable bomber again especially if you can also add some stealth into it, i.e. putting some radar absorbing materials or coating on it's body, wings and rudder to minimize the radar wave bounce back or reflection.
What they forgot to say was the aircraft had more hours of maintenance per hour of flight than any aircraft. That was about 3 times the average. Plus there was three types of pods to maintain.
The USAF liked shiny and black planes, both are horrible as they are so visual to onlookers. The best color is a baby blue for day and night. Just not manly enough for the USAF. The casual talk of nuclear war is just amazing.
Aint that weired.... But hey the Arrow Avro was out Dated wrightttt.... What a copy cat exactly the same structur wings as the Avro Arrow... Sure.... Unbelivable untrustable US
Looks like a Air Force propaganda film. The B-58 was fast and cool looking but a champion? They sure didn't stick around very long. Question for "The Atomic Café'." Why do you give a heart symbol to someone for insulting actors? has nothing to do with the topic. And I'm pretty sure Jimmy Stuart's active duty military career ended shortly after WWII so this film is somewhat deceptive.
As a Reserve officer he was often called to periods of active duty. The B-58 was retired because it was replaced by the ICBM. Unlike the B-52 it was not adaptable to wars like Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. It was built to drop H-bombs on Moscow.
I very much appreciate this video. I lived at Edwards, AFB during my high school years back in the 1990’s. 1950’s aviation was still then omnipresent. Jimmy Doolittle III was my next door neighbor. When he wasn’t yelling at me for doing lawn work in an unsafe manner, he’d tell me stories about his grandfather. I saw Chuck Yeager drive through my neighborhood (his old neighborhood) a couple of times. I watched him break the sound barrier 50 years after his initial record setting flight. My dad was vice base commander and so I was fortunate to meet many of the “Right Stuff” era pilots. My high school field trips were the stuff of dreams like going one night to observe an SR-71’s engine test or going to use the altitude chamber, or going to the flight line to watch a returning space shuttle. And after having this charmed childhood steeped in Air Force history, I went and joined the Army.
Ok
😂😂 my Dad was Coast Guard, I went Army so my little brother joined the Marines.
Saw the Enterprise and went inside as a kid in 80 at EAFB. Awesome!
When I think of Jimmy Stewart, I see a American with a good heart.
The B-58 at the Texas Air Museum in Galveston is a must see. So sleek. Looks fast, just sitting in the hanger!
They have one at the Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio as well. I absolutely loved it. One of the main reasons i even made the 5 hour drive there. One of my favorite planes.
Yes it is. It was always my favorite there since I was a kid.
I saw the one at the SAC museum in Lincoln NE. It looks so exotic without its payload on.
@@theatomiccafe8996 One of those two is the one from Chanute AFB where I climbed around on it as a kid back in the mid-70s before it ended up in the museum there which eventually closed. It was a sexy, awesome aircraft. My dad was a Tech (eventually Master) Sergeant in the USAF so I got to see and touch, firsthand, some of the coolest inventory in past AF history.
I apologize, it’s the Lone Star Flight Museum.
Fun fact: Lt. Col John Deutschendorf is the late singer John Denver's father. Denver was a stage name. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr was his real name. Great video and channel.
Fantastic find! Jimmy Stewart was basically playing himself in "Strategic Air Command", and he reportedly had a touch of PTSD from his B-24 flying when filming "It's a Wonderful Life", so he's not really acting when he looks stricken with fear at times in that movie.
James Stewart also flew during WW II and later the B-47 and as an observer in Vietnam onboard a B-52. He retired from USAF as a Major-General in 1985.
I saw this plane in tech school at Chanute A.F.B. in 1969.It was on display outside,just as you entered the base.I was being trained as an ejection seat mechanic,officially called Egress Systems mechanicand our instructer wanted us to know about it's egress system.It was no longer in commission but it's system was different,having a capsule that the pilot would use to punch out at very high altitudes.The capsule was needed to protect him at that height.
Few know that Jimmy Stewert was one of the very few pilots that after WW2 stayed on in the Reserves until they forced him to retire, and once again he was unique in that he was "checked out" on every aircraft that was in use by the Air Services. I write Air Services in that I don't feel like looking up the various names that were used before the USAF was established.
I was telling my wife that the other day actually. Jimmy Stewert was a great man. Doesnt get the credit he deserves these days in my opinion. You certainly wont find many of his type in hollywood now....
@@theatomiccafe8996 really? How do you know; is there a world war going on right now I'm on aware of?
Kevin Barry yes there were until trump ended most of them. But I guess we'll have some new ones now I guess starting in Iraq all over again.
Very good post! A favorite aircraft and one of my all time favorite actors. My father was a B-24 Crew Chief during WWII stationed in North Africa, Turkey and Italy. Keep it up.
Thanks for posting this!
What a great find! Thanks for sharing!
The B 58 Hustler is my favorite plane of all time. This past summer, I went to the National Museum of the United States Airforce in Dayton, Ohio. As a former pilot, I was awestruck of the beauty of this aircraft. I would have been in aviation heaven if I ever got a chance to pilot this fantastic remnant of the Cold War era.
A lightning fast sleek aircraft. Just as ahead of its time as it's speed was.
Yep! Most of the systems developed for the B-58 were used in almost every bomber built afterwords in the next decade. Amazing aircraft.
@@theatomiccafe8996 You just answered one of my questions. Thanks!
That was so much fun to watch! Thank you for this.
Very welcome!
Really excellent video! Thank you for sharing.
I really miss the Slide Rule Generation. They built the coolest stuff imaginable.
Also.moar Betty,plz.
I own and fly a 1963 slide rule aircraft..amazing machine that cruises at 192 mph
Always loved this video. Thanks for posting this AC!
Very much welcome! Thanks for watching!
@@theatomiccafe8996 Always will, brother! You and your content is what the intertubes were invented for.
The British Vulcan bomber was designed as a straight V-Delta in the early fifties but found that by using different V-Delta variants along the the wing it could achieve much more. Towards the wing root it was more akin to a normal wing providing good lift at take off and landing, this also housed the Rolls-Royce engines. The rest of the wing provided good lift for weight ratio. Each part of the wing was suited to a particular requirement of the operational aspect of the aircraft. As it was designed so soon after WWII it leaned heavily on German research.
I had the pleasure of watching the Canadian Vulcans take off right over my house at the east end of Fairchild AFB in the 1960's during bomb comp. They are indeed a sight to see. I also got to see them up close when I had to go out to the flightline to work on some of our snow removal equipment.
Good video! I grew up in the 60’s and was stationed at Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana. I played little league baseball and Hustlers was our team name. Lots of B-58’s were there.
A lot of people using the hindsight of history criticize this aircraft, but for its day the B-58 Hustler was a seriously badass airplane.
When I was at Mitre a few years ago, the man in the office next to me was a former B58 pilot.
Can you imagine a big name actor today actually serving in the military ? In active service I mean.
Don't even know of any "big name"actors today, but whoever they are, I'm sure they wouldn't serve .
Not in the American military, but they might enlist in a foreign military if they were guaranteed to kill Americans.
I can only think of people who became famous after they served, like Drew Carey and Rob Riggle. Interestingly, both marines and comedians.
@@grosseileracingteam Rob Riggle.
@@Jmp5nb But would he do it again?
I went from active duty to the reserves at Grissom, AFB. Bunker Hill, in the day.
Hangers were built for The Hustler. Over the years, the base and hangars were changed to KC-135Rs.
I miss that life.
Thank you for posting this video up. Great to watch and see when the USAF SAC had a real mission with real visionaries at the helm to succeed.
Short Service like for the plane but it set records and advanced flight and competing with the B-52 with costs. Cheers
The U.S. in the 1950s and 60s had some of the most awesome aircraft ever - B-58, B-36, and of course the XB-70
Fantastic video! Thanks for posting!
Wow is this a great video, even with the dated resolution. So freaking good.
Beautiful plane! I am making a whole series about it!
Stewart could fly anything he wanted. What a cool dude he had to be. That Firefly bomber broke up during a Paris airshow a couple years later. The crew that got the trophies had flown it to Paris and the secondary crew did a barrel roll and broke up 3 miles north of the show. Engines ripped off from aggressive maneuvers or metal fatigue or something.
Saw one at the Pima air museum in Tucson. Knocked my socks off. This coming from the company that gave us the B-36.
When Jimmy says that the B-58 can scramble in two minutes, twice as fast as other bombers, it is hard to comprehend, with 4 engines and start carts! And a B-52, and B-47, could do it in 4, with 8, and 6 engines? Hell man, I could not do a two minute scramble in a single engine Saratoga! Not, if I am to run the full check list!
Double prizes from Atomic Cafe !
I grew up near Bergstrom AFB in Austin, Tx. when they were SAC, TAC and Texas Air Reserve. Our neighborhood was located west of BAFB about 21/2 air miles away in the prevailing wind landing direction of the base. I was able to view B58 bombers in final landing approach over the neighborhood, well under 1000 foot altitude. It was always impressive.
Awesome
JIMMY STEWART WHAT A GREAT GUY A FINE ACTOR AND FLYING AROUND WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAHAHA WHAT A BAD ASS THESE CANDY ASSES COULDN'T DO THAT THESE DAYS !!!!!!
This is what REAL aviation is about!
One of my favorites
Where's Bettie? We have to have Bettie.
Damn right , where's Bettie..
The external stores stowage pod always has messed with my head; I understand why, but it seems to me that if you design a bomber that can't carry bombs, well, you've missed the point.
What if they took the b-58 put pylons for bombs on the wings and used it in Vietnam I wonder how effective it would be?
@@Yeaggghurte probably no more so than the F-105; the Thunderchief was originally designed to do pretty much the same mission - high speed penetration nuclear weapon delivery. The 'Thud's' claim to fame, though, was as a conventional bomb truck. Problem is, the B-58 was very much more expensive, so was never used that way.
@@lairdcummings9092 one of the Thuds real benefits was its low level max speed.. it could really cook at low level. Love the Thud as much as the Hustler.. hell I love most all aircraft.
@@guaporeturns9472 they did build 'em pretty, didn't they?
@@lairdcummings9092 roger that
One of my instructors at the Air Force Academy had flown the B-58. When we asked him why it had been taken out of service he said, "Well, the plan had been to station them around the periphery of the Soviet Union but the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis took that option off the table. Now, to bomb Moscow from Little Rock was going to take three aerial refuelings. The one over Canada on the way in wasn't going to be too bad, and the one over Iran on the way out was doable, but the one over Murmansk was gonna be a bitch."
Great old footage of a great old plane
Now I'm going to watch Strategic Air Command.
Great movie!
Of the Cold War Jets the B-58 and the EE Lightning would have to be the most audacious and stunning looking. The performance of both of them was amazing. The J-79 that powered the B-58 (and many others) was a marvel itself and is still in use today.
In particular on the B-58 the application of Whitcomb's Area Rule as shown by the very agreeable narrowing of the fuselage about the wings was copied by soft drink and car manufactures to great effect in the 1960s. Form Follows Function - on jets at least LOL.
The B-58 is very dramatic looking. I'm infatuated by them.
edit: Also fun fact?? (if true), I read that they required 150hrs maintenance for every flight hour. If so, no wonder they quietly disappeared after a relatively short service life.
Major Duchendorff was singer John Denver's father
The coolest looking bomber-ever.
Jimmy Stewart is just awesome. Great American, just as much as that guy John Wayne ...
Amazing records set that no others had even knew existed 😈
Pretty amazing film for an amazing but troublesome bomber. But...she was fast as hell!
"Manned bomber accuracy" anybody who knows anything about World War II knows that's pretty funny
Yeah they hit everything but their target in those days
Compared of the missiles of the day which had difficult hitting the right region of the target let alone the right district of the target city.
Everything is relative. Missiles of the day were, to be charmingly understated, 'somewhat random.' Add to that the fear and loathing pilots had for missiles, which were at the time being considered the replacement for everything manned, and you can understand the dig.
@@lairdcummings9092 I understand perfectly; the military loves to spend huge amounts of taxpayer dollars because of personal beliefs, let's Collett ideology. Especially if it's against some other branch of the military
Such a sexy airframe...
... just imagine what we could do with it with modern electronics and engines.
^.^
A sexy aircraft!
I feel safer already! 😃
That was cool...
Nothing beats coldwar technology 😎🤘🏻🤘🏻
Texas to California at the speed of sound never more that 500 feet above the ground? There had to have been some allowances for the Rocky Mountains. Could a pilot actually follow the terrain at that speed and altitude?
They were equipped with terrain following radar.
I wonder how it would hold up to aircraft designed since it was #1? It is indeed an amazing aircraft!
These should still be flying.
Hey you're okay!!
Alive and well my friend!
It looks like this plane can outperform the F-111 and B1 Lancer in terms of performance. Just install the best and latest avionics, radar, engines and weapons system and this plane can be a formidable bomber again especially if you can also add some stealth into it, i.e. putting some radar absorbing materials or coating on it's body, wings and rudder to minimize the radar wave bounce back or reflection.
John Denver's dad!
17 fatal crashes... 2 happened at a crowded air show... dangerous plane for sure!!!
Jimmy Stewart in the front seat?
I am imagining an MST3K lampooning of this video.
Yep , would fit perfectly. Love MST3K!
Or Norman Bates mother sitting in a chair watching the TV , viewed from behind like at 2:20
Typo in the description, it is "James Stewart" - an 'a' not an 'e'.
It is unclear whether they flew over Washington and New York with aerial refueling or whether they landed at those two cities.
Stewart was tall!
Amazing to think the same company that made the engine for the F22 made the engines for Pratt and Whitney 😈
Looks like fighter B707
Mach 3 wickedness!
Not quite. The B-58 was Mach 2+ wickedness. The B-70 was Mach 3 near-God Power!
3:12 About what club is he talking about?
The original SILVER BULLET !!!!
Bueno
Jimmy was almost as tall as _Clint Eastwood._
Forget the Hustler Jimmy, did you hook up with Grace Kelly or not? 😆
Freaking sexy plane
The B-58.. The first X-wing starfighters.....
Always admired the Hustler. Wonder what the huge bulge was underneath the body? Radar?
Fuel and h bomb !!!
/comfy/
If Israel had 20 of these today right now oil would be 25 dollars a barrel.
Reality Check: The B-58 was too far ahead of the "Technology of the time"
too much about trophies, not enough tech
What they forgot to say was the aircraft had more hours of maintenance per hour of flight than any aircraft. That was about 3 times the average. Plus there was three types of pods to maintain.
The USAF liked shiny and black planes, both are horrible as they are so visual to onlookers. The best color is a baby blue for day and night. Just not manly enough for the USAF.
The casual talk of nuclear war is just amazing.
Ripoff of the Avro Arrow
Aint that weired.... But hey the Arrow Avro was out Dated wrightttt.... What a copy cat exactly the same structur wings as the Avro Arrow... Sure.... Unbelivable untrustable US
Looks like a Air Force propaganda film. The B-58 was fast and cool looking but a champion? They sure didn't stick around very long. Question for "The Atomic Café'." Why do you give a heart symbol to someone for insulting actors? has nothing to do with the topic. And I'm pretty sure Jimmy Stuart's active duty military career ended shortly after WWII so this film is somewhat deceptive.
As a Reserve officer he was often called to periods of active duty. The B-58 was retired because it was replaced by the ICBM. Unlike the B-52 it was not adaptable to wars like Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. It was built to drop H-bombs on Moscow.