Here’s What You Need to Remember: Unlike most of today’s bombers, the B-58 had a three-man crew: the pilot, navigator/bomber, and the weapon operator, who fired the Hustler’s single tail-mounted 20mm ...
The Convair B-58 Hustler roared into the U.S. Air Force arsenal in 1960, making history as America’s first operational supersonic bomber. Built at Convair’s Fort Worth factory, just steps from ...
The B-58 Hustler made her maiden flight on Veteran’s Day of 1956 and officially entered into U.S. Air Force operational service on March 15, 1960. Planned as a replacement for the B-47 Stratojet — ...
Key Points and Summary - The Convair B-58 Hustler, America's first Mach 2 supersonic bomber, was the center of a radical Cold War plan to create a "flying missile silo." -U.S. nuclear strategists ...