Convair TB-58A "Hustler"-1960

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AWESOME & RARE footage (Inside & out!) of B-58 trainers in action at Carswell AFB, TX.

Just eight of the TB-58s were built.

An aircraft that really pushed the state of the art for late '50s; required constant maintenance, expensive to fly, and rigorous training for both the flight, & ground crews.

I'm hard pressed to find a better looking airplane (Except maybe the XB-70), and when asked "What is the best looking jet aircraft ever built"; and even though the B-52 is my "Baby", I usually answer with the name that Larry Flynt stole for his magazine. ;-)

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[milwaukeegregg]

Great plot for a movie b58 comes out of mothballs to help a bunch of 60 yr old x vietman grunts kill terrorists. My favorite bomber of all time. I like her from the front and what an ass!!!

[OMEGATECH]

The "Hustler", what a beautiful aircraft, it must of freaked people out when they saw it, it looked sooo far ahead of it's time, am sure they thought it came from outer space or something..

[majajh]

What I saw was delta winged, low level, and four engines. Not F-106. Germans were doing flight training at Sheppard. I don't know- did they ever fly B-58s? In the grand scheme of things, machs nichts.

[P51Mstg]

@majajh The B-58s were retired by 1970 to Davis Motham AFB, and scrapped out in 1977. Last flight was in 1971 (watch the video, one of the parts has my old buddy Jay Miller in it and that what he said). If anything you may have seen a F-106 with the drop tanks (which they almost always had on) they were in service until 1988, then they were mostly turned into drones......

To learn about everything there is to know about the B-58, look for the AEROFAX book "B-58" by Jay Miller.

[majajh]

I'm certain that's what I saw. I read that they were in the reserves until that time. It was fairly low level. Four engines, delta wing. I was at Sheppard AFB, Wichita, TX at my ASC course.

[P51Mstg]

@majajh Cool, they were LONG gone by 1984.... Try again...

[bigred2989]

Everyday I'm husslin

[majajh]

In 1984, at Sheppard AFB, TX, I saw a B-58 fly by. It was incredibly loud!

[brown9708]

that's an old ass water tower still there on I30

[MrScriptster]

@TheFunkadelicFan : I've seen Hustler at Chanute Air Museum in IL and that was my first thought: this plane does not look like it's from the 50s, especially next to other planes from the era. In fact, it looks rather contemporary even today. Back then people must have been stunned! It's a magnificent bird!

But as far as its cost - the money wasn't paid to Martians. People earned money designing and building it and bought cars, houses, sent kids to college etc. You get my drift...