B-58 Hustler Tuesday

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - B-58 Hustler Tuesday

Posted: 2/14/2006 6:23:32 PM EDT

YB/RB-58A Hustler
USAF Serial 55-0666

On display at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:16:10 PM EDT

[#1]

That's sexy.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:19:53 PM EDT

[#2]

bitchin cool, and bitchin fast, except when one of the outboard J-79's unstarts at Mach 3 and you have to scour three states to find all the pieces.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:26:07 PM EDT

[#3]

One badass and beautiful bird. Always one of my absolute favorites.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:26:32 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
bitchin cool, and bitchin fast, except when one of the outboard J-79's unstarts at Mach 3 and you have to scour three states to find all the pieces.

Bah, that'll buff right out.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:27:09 PM EDT

[#5]

beautiful.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:27:45 PM EDT

[#6]

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:29:01 PM EDT

[#7]

Nice jet. The B58 is a classic. Man, what lines!

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:33:37 PM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:35:20 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

*masterbates*

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:35:40 PM EDT

[#10]

Nice pic Noname. I'd like to have a nickle for every gallon of kerosene they ran thru those afterburning J79's!

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:37:34 PM EDT

[#11]

18yr's on the flightline. AB never gets old...!!!

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:40:12 PM EDT

[#12]

Definitely a cool plane. But it was funny looking on the ground with the tall, stilt-like landing gear to provide ground clearance for the inboard engines.

It was quite a technological leap forward when you consider how young jet technology was when this plane was designed.

Razor sharp leading edges, classic delta planform, area ruled fuselage, scary fast, carried nukes....what's not to like?

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:46:38 PM EDT

[#13]

Alright, I'll raid my old thread in the Archives...

Coolest Looking Bomber of All time thread (Member's only)

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:47:47 PM EDT

[#14]

My father flew B47, B52, C130 and B58. The B58 was his favorite by far and he makes it to the reunions most times. Beautiful airplane!

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:51:05 PM EDT

[#15]

Geez, that's like 80% engine and 20% airplane.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:55:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Good gawd thats a beautiful airplane. Too bad it had such a short time in service. I wish the B-36 had stayed around longer as well, just for the hugeness of it.........then there is the XB-70, definitely the sexiest bomber never to make production.

Posted: 2/14/2006 7:56:07 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
bitchin cool, and bitchin fast, except when one of the outboard J-79's unstarts at Mach 3 and you have to scour three states to find all the pieces.

Max speed was closer to mach 2.

Posted: 2/14/2006 8:08:07 PM EDT

[#18]

Always thought THAT was what a jet is supposed to look like.
When I thin of bad ass military jet,I think of the B-58.

Posted: 2/15/2006 12:15:24 AM EDT

[#19]

Here’s one that isn’t doing so well (looks like it could be restored to a decent display model pretty easily, though):

Posted: 2/15/2006 12:21:37 AM EDT

[#20]

Flying gas tank...with a nuclear-tipped dart.

Posted: 2/15/2006 12:23:07 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:
www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/images/B58Hustler.jpg

*masterbates*

me too!

Posted: 2/15/2006 12:33:49 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
www.vaq34.com/b58hustler.jpg
YB/RB-58A Hustler
USAF Serial 55-0666

On display at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum

I took pictures of that same airplane in 1976 at Chanute AFB. Back then it was parked on grass next to a road with small concrete pads for the wheels.

One of my all time favorite bombers.

Posted: 2/15/2006 12:41:05 AM EDT

[#23]

The B58 at the Wright Patterson USAF Museum.

Posted: 2/15/2006 1:04:56 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
One badass and beautiful bird. Always one of my absolute favorites.

I always thought it was one of the coolest looking planes we have had. F4 phantom, P51, F14, and Corsair, and the Hustler, just look like what a badass fighter/bomber should look like,..... classic, it's ashamed to see a great plane in the graveyard. When I was younger, the 117 recon wing, was located not to far from my house, I miss seeing the F4s flying over. When photos of Tomcats sitting in the desert come out, I won't be able to look..........Has anyone ever been to the boneyard, where all the decomissioned planes are? Do they let civi's tour it? I always thought it would be a cool place to go, but sad at the same time.

Posted: 2/15/2006 1:10:43 AM EDT

[#25]

Why don't we see if the Navy will allow us to do a group buy on F14s? If the price were right, I would be in for one. Someone get to work on it, I know somebody here has connections. LOL

Posted: 2/15/2006 8:37:35 AM EDT

[#26]

Bump for one of the coolest aircraft ever.

Posted: 2/15/2006 8:49:44 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Quoted:
bitchin cool, and bitchin fast, except when one of the outboard J-79's unstarts at Mach 3 and you have to scour three states to find all the pieces.

Bah, that'll buff right out.

No, silly, that would be the B52.

Posted: 2/15/2006 8:50:38 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/images/B58Hustler.jpg

I have seen a B1B take off with full afterburners, but unfortunately have never gotten to see a Hustler do it.

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