When I was a kid, I had a model of the B-58 and then became a aeronautical engineer. I still look at it and learn from its design. One of the most beautiful planes ever. And it was all built without digital computers

@kennyhill3140

2 жыл бұрын

I had one too that my father made. That and the F105 were my all-time favorites😍. I didn't have the balls to sign up and join the Royal Air Force. It's great you achieved a career from your interest as child👍

@chriskelly6574

Жыл бұрын

Slide rules and scrap paper.

I grew up in Wabash Country (50’s-60’s) just east of Bunker Hill AFB (now Grissom) I loved seeing the Hustlers flying over low and slow. In 2018 in Moscow I toured Soviet Cold War SAC history museum (with night club) located (in central Moscow) about 65 meters underground, Bunker-42 is a HUGE military complex that runs parallel to the subway system on certain levels. The bunker is accessed from the subway and also a nondescript little house 200 ft above. The museum curator had a model of a B-58 Hustler on display. I told the curator that B-58 Hustlers were a huge part of my youth and asked why an American bomber was on display and not Russian aircraft. His response was the range & capabilities of the Hustler (to which the USSR had nothing comparable) to strike deep inside the USSR (Moscow) necessitated building the Soviet underground hardened SAC bunkers. Definitely worth the trip to this museum relic.

@Millennium7HistoryTech

2 жыл бұрын

Great contribution! Thanks!

@jameswoolley7421

8 ай бұрын

I GROW UP IN KOKOMO IN THE 60'S. THE HUSTLER 1ST FLEW 6 DAYS B4 I WAS BORN. LOVED GOING OUT TO BUNKER HILL AND SEE THOSE 4 AFTER BURNERS LIT UP ON TAKE OFF.

As an old crew chief. We approached any and all hot brake situations on any bird from the front or rear. If there's an explosive event from an overheated high pressure tire. The explosion tends to blow out to the sides. The brakes have a lot of magnesium and can burn very hot. 300psi of dry nitrogen was common in high pressure tires on high speed birds. The pressures in the B58's tires was not uncommon at all.

@normcarlson1401

2 жыл бұрын

/$$

If you haven't already, I suggest doing a video series on the North American XB-70. If your audience was impressed by the Hustler here, they'll be blown away by the Valkyrie. It was the ultimate in Cold War spectacle. A plane on the scale of a jumbo jet that could do Mach 3... It was also a delta-wing with canards, so it will fit right in with a good deal of other aircraft you've covered. Thanks for all the excellent videos!

@ericvantassell6809

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, there can never be enough xb-70 videos.

@thomasshoe92

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@tomcooper6108

6 ай бұрын

That would be a good video. That poor jet was screwed from the start.

Ah I forgot the celebratory long formats are a thing. Good to have my memory jogged. So much information in a 48 minute video that puts other docs and videos to shame.

I never really looked at it before in detail as it was in the gap between wars. I loved every second of this series through!

found you as mentioned in Gregs airplanes last video, my kind of channel here. This was the best comprehensive technical I've seen, like a good wings episode.

Thanks for featuring one of my favourite planes. The planes from this era were just so amazing. Built for speed, they'd try to kill you but they were FAST! Real men's machines. The SR-71, F-104, B-58, MiG-21, MiG-23, EE Lightning and probably others I'm forgetting. Just great machines that were utter widowmakers and all the more exciting for it. I'd have flown one and probably died. Smiling.

What an absolute beauty this aircraft was, talk about being way ahead of her time....... she was such a stunning looking aircraft and looked more like a fighter than a bomber to be honest.

What song is that in the beginning? Please remember to cite the artists!

I was at primary school when an American airman cae to give us a talk on aviation. It was 1958 and the era of records falling like leaves courtesy of the Hustler. I was k=hooked and went on to become a pilot and enjoyed a wonderful career. Now I watch this amazingly well researched video about the aeroplane that started me up. I never for a moment realised that so many of the innovations and features of this incredibly advanced aircraft would be part of my life. INS, Astro Trackers, Fuel trim tanks to name but a few. What a ship. I am in awe of Convair and the way they made this all happen in the late 50s.

@MrJohnny5555

Жыл бұрын

My dad worked for Convair in Ft. Worth Tx from 1948 thru the 60's. We lived in Azle Tx nw of Ft Worth. right in the B52 landing flight line, when Caswell AFB was a SAC base....WAY COOL!!!

@tomcooper6108

6 ай бұрын

Yes, late 50s, and they designed a plane way beyond the times. Incredible.

I know it was not the best plane design wise but it was , and still is, one of the most futuristic , sexy and, frankly , frightening looking planes ever made. Shockingly beautiful . If I was allowed one plane to take to heaven (or hell) it would be the Hustler. And Im a Brit. It is the plane the Gods fly. America at its very very best.

@muttleyjones2

Жыл бұрын

How dare you sir!? Bite your tongue, then go stand in the corner until you understand what you have done wrong! Meanwhile, I will be flying faster and higher in my English Electric Lightning and doing it in style for God's own country! Rule Britannia!

@geraldmorain3166

Жыл бұрын

My Sgt stripes above me told me stories and b36s

Awesome stuff ! An F14 long format would be so great ... i guess milions likes !

Thank you so much for not rehashing the basic information found in other B-58 videos. This series was outstanding! I knew of the the aircraft systems from previous study, however, your explanations, video clips and diagrams really brought the plane to life! Having been an autopilot/instrument technician in the USAF, the complexity and capability of all of the navigations systems coupled to the autopilot on the Hustler was way ahead of its time on the Hustler and you really highlighted that aspect of the jet!

i will never get tired of these videos you make

The B-58 is one of the most beautiful planes of the jet age. I am thankful that it never was in combat.

Very well researched video. I love looking at planes from the 50s and 60s. Technology advances were so quick back then, many of the planes didn't have a long service life.

we lived in Kokomo,IN just south of "Grissom Airforce Base" in 1964&65. We had two progs from the base at our SME meetings. A Colonel brought the "58 Hustler" movie to augment the prog. Hell of a Plane.....

@stevenhoman2253

2 жыл бұрын

The crew escape modules still astonish me.

Thank you. That was a great presentation. Regards, Geoff. Reeks

See the movie "Failsafe" from the mid-'60s B58 is one of the stars.

I hope to see your channel following grow significantly. It is superb in detail and presentation.

As the old Air Force adage goes..."If it looks good, it'll fly good"", and nothing looked better than this aircraft. I lovingly put together this model airplane kit, so well I guess because the Model Shop put my model B-58 in their front window on display. Aside from being proud of that, I loved the look of the airplane...it was a beauty! Nothing like it since, to me.

@hotaviation1698

2 жыл бұрын

This model said "hold my beer" kzread.info/dash/bejne/eYmcu6NtotXgj7w.html

@stradostrado

Жыл бұрын

I put this model together also back in the 1950's. I built a lot of models, planes tanks and ships.

@geraldmorain3166

Жыл бұрын

Models good real better

Excellent content, I worked on avionics under SAC, TAC & MAC so I find it hard to be impressed by most presentations due to the lack of detail. The Hustler was before my time and I always wondered about the details. Maintenance must have been tough, operational costs high and based on your presentation I can see why losses were basically unavoidable. Just trying to imagine how the escape pod requirements were met given all the wiring and control connections makes my head spin. Your presentation was very professional in laying out the mission requirements, structures and systems. Thank You

This is a great content, thanks for editing it. Great deep walkthrough of plane and geostrategic enviroment of operation.

I live near Grissom ARB (formerly Bunker Hill AFB) which was one of the two home Bases of the B-58. They had a "Broken Arrow" incident at the Airbase where a B-58 caught fire while carrying two Nuclear Weapons which burned up in the fire. American entertainer John Denver's father was a B-58 pilot who made many records in the aircraft. They also had problems with the airplane if fully fueled would set back on it's tail like a rocket ready to fire. Though it looked impressive it damaged the aircraft as it wasn't suppose to do that. There is still a B-58 on static display (with other aircraft) at the Grissom Air Museum.

I find your stories of these older aircraft fascinating.

love this channal. Bella .

One of my favorite airplanes, fine job! Learned a thing or two... Thank you sir.

"The Hustler." One of the GOAT names for an aircraft lol.

@keithpennock

3 жыл бұрын

Back when “hustle” meant to move fast or work quickly. Sadly it has other meanings now.

@blech71

3 жыл бұрын

BOATS, HOES, HOOKERS AND BLOW .... and back then to include planes.

Please do a similiar video to the heavy bomber companion to the B-58: The B-70 Valkyrie.

The first model airplane I ever put together when I was kid was the B58

I grew up 10 mi from Indiana's Bunker Hill Air Force Base almost strait off the end of runway 5-23 the 305th bomb wing was stationed there and flew B-58s daily over our house, I was 6 yrs old when they had the near nuclear disaster Dec.8 1964 I still remember all the black smoke coming from the base we drove over to see what was going on not knowing until decades later that the plane that burnt to the ground was loaded with 5 nuclear weapons the USAF said absolutely nothing about the weapons until years later. I still find it hard to believe i was only 1 mi from the plane as it burned, one bomb was a B53 with a yield of 9 megatons and 4 B43s with a yield of 70 Kilotons each.

Very in-depth information and well-done documentary.

Thank you for making a video about one of my favorite aircraft. Almost every American aircraft from 50s and 60s are interesting.

I saw the flyover of the last active B36 west of Fort Worth. Behind it was the beautiful B58 Hustler, barely hanging in the air so as not to overrun the huge bomber. Really Beautiful

Great content. 90 minutes of someone "eating crackers next to me" is tough.

Very thorough and impressive video! Very rare on KZread!

love get long video like this on the Tu-144

Great series

Best aviation channel available on youtube....thanks

Incredibly, I was born Nov 12 1956! Just hours after the first maiden flight, and she's about to turn 67 next month.

My uncle was a navigator on a Hustler. He loved the plane, but said that it had a nasty habit of loosening its wing rivets....

@michaelniemeyer6164

9 ай бұрын

My dad was a DSO on the B58 3rd seat.

It would be Fantastic if you could do a feature on the Blue Steel missle (RAF) Many Thanks again for the great videos 😆

Yes!

I grew up on SAC Air Force Bases in the late 1950s, 60s and 70s. And I remember this aircraft, my dad said it was good performance, but too high Maintenace.

Its extraordinary to think the idea for this plane originated before the Korean War and was mostly completed within the Truman Administration.

We Air Minded kids in the 60's , just Alucinated with this Supersonic Bomber , Sexy and Deadly as the Centuries Series Fighter planes ... 😉😁😎

One of the sexiest aircraft of all time.

Beautiful aircraft.

He said the fuel capacity of the B-58 was roughly 50% of the total weight of the plane fully loaded at 163,000 lbs. Jet fuel weighs 6.99 lbs to 1 gallon. So 80,000 lbs of fuel equals 11,444 gallons of jet fuel. That's a lot of fuel.

Hey Millennium 7, love your channel. Couple of questions, first is the name of the track at the start, love in immensely. Second is a video request on your experiences in the Italian Air Force, funny memories, shocking or interesting moments, that sorta thing. Stay awesome :)

@Millennium7HistoryTech

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks but zero chance on that. I wasn't a pilot

@SpawnofChaos2010

2 жыл бұрын

@@Millennium7HistoryTech I know you weren't a pilot buddy but you've got so many great insights that I reckon a vid on your time in the air force would be well received!

I’m a documentary junkie. Cars, planes, guitars, ships, astrophotography…you name it. Other people binge watch “Real Housewives of ….” I binge watch documentaries. This is absolutely one, if not THE best researched and presented documentaries I’ve ever seen. On to the B-58. Simply one of the most beautiful a/c ever built. I can’t help but wonder how a re-engined, digital computer controlled variant would perform. 😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤 Thanks to the creator. Do you have a Patreon? If not you should investigate that.

@Millennium7HistoryTech

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Way too kind. Patreon is here www.patreon.com/Millennium7

Sexy plane the epitiome of 50's design. Looks like a giant fighter.

When you said that you didn't know how they came up with such calculations. The image of a slide rule came back to mind. God, how I hated calculus!

@paulcavigliano6388

2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone even remember how to use a slide rule? I read that if we wanted to build a Saturn 5 we'd be s o l. Apparently we have lost the technical know how on building a machine like that, n forget about manufacturing one. Doesnt inspire confidence in our engineers.

Please contact Grissom Air Museum concerning usage rights/availability for a picture of the honeycomb skin, as they have a B-58 and related exhibits on display. The material was more problematic in its durability and maintenance than you are describing. B-58s were stationed at the adjacent air base.

@liammarra4003

2 жыл бұрын

Bunker Hill AFB right? Nice exhibit and plane park. Needs money and some TLC, they're trying to raise money to make a shelfter for the Hustler they have, I wouldnt hold my breath.

Damn never knew that Jimmy Stewart ever flew a B-58!

B-58 looked extremely fast just sitting there on the tarmac! Absolutely beautiful and fast! Mach 2!

Yeah that was great. I'll be sure to check out your other vids on the B-58. My other favourite aircraft of the era is the EE Lightning - a veritable double barrel shotgun with wings. The B-58 and the EE Lightning I find to be some of the 'sexiest' looking aircraft ever made. The description of the analogue navigation system part of this vid very eye opening. I can see why none have been restored to flying condition. The inflight CoG fuel management precludes this from ever flying again we can guess. Never say never but it seem highly unlikely. Also, for people that like visualization, if the Earth was an orange, then a Rhumb Line is like cutting the cheek off an orange, a Great Circle *always* cuts the orange in half. Long distance navigation is usually (but not always) a Great Circle, short distances or legs a Rhumb line. Rhumb lines over long distances are further than Great Circles. On a say the usual Mercator Projection map this seems counter intuitive since the shortest distance between two points appears to be a straight line, but on a globe you can see this isn't the case; it is dependent on distance however.

Great informative video. Thank you. Tall Man 55 is a cool US Air Force propaganda film about the B58. 👍👍

I have always loved this plain and this is a great video about it. I am truly reluctant to comment in the negative about something I can’t do better myself however I think it best to say that the back ground music makes understanding the commentary difficult. Thanks for the video!

To go from the B-29 to the Buff to the Hustler was a massive leap, in design and ambition, its a pity she didn't stay for long.

Just a comment, minute 27: all that variables to control with analogue computers??? As an electronic engineer I think it is a complicated monster OMG

@Millennium7HistoryTech

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed it was!

@stevenhoman2253

2 жыл бұрын

The SR- 71 and A-12 also used analog computers, which left the pilot with frequent engine unstarts. I believe they lost at least one pilot and an aircraft due to unstarts ; in SR- 71'S

@MrDino1953

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenhoman2253 - there’s no such word as unstart. Back to school with you.

Wow that is Jimmy Stewart at 05:45. Knew he was a bomber pilot and brigadier general in USAF Reserve but had no idea he flew B-58s.

@marksprague1280

Жыл бұрын

IIRC, Stewart was checked out on all bombers upto and including the B-52. He also flew one combat flight over North Vietnam as an observer.

@dukeford8893

Жыл бұрын

Stewart had one ride in a B-58, as an observer.

Jimmy Stewart in a promotion video for the B-58. How Hitchcockian, an un-credited cameo for the Oscar winning Brigadier General.

What's the name of the opening music? Shazam does not recognize it.

@keithsmith5267

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please, what is the artist/track?

Those jerks wearing hats on a flight line, sheesh. Fantastic video and overview. Thanks.

Great video. BTW the J79 A and B were both 15k+ pounds thrust max in AB engines not 10K. Just for a brain teaser look at The nose wheel which retracts aft and with the large pod protruding forward of the apparent wheel arc ask yourself how does the nose wheel retract without hitting the large pod. I know the answer because I was a crew chief but I'll let you research that. 😊

6:04 the one and only Jimmy Stewart...

How about a series on the General Dynamics FB-111A which directly replaced the B-58?

Great video. Is there an an example of a B-58 on display in a museum?

@reallyluckyoaklawn8306

Жыл бұрын

US Air Force Museum Dayton Ohio. 1962 Bendix Trophy winner. 3 World Records!

@dougball328

Жыл бұрын

@@reallyluckyoaklawn8306 One of the B-58 pilots was Major Dutch Deutschendorf. His son is a little more famous, John Denver. The book, "The B-58 Hustler" by Douglas H. Robinson, on pages 4 and 5, had a great photo of Major Deutschendorf taking off in 'Firefly'.

Poetry in motion

The B58 Hustler... still a better story then F35

@alexandertheissl808

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.... Only to tell about the F35 it's ugly.... Story close

My meagre knowledge of marine vessel applications suggest that ships don't typically fly at or beyond mach 2. Therefore I would surmise the B58 is built substantially different to a ship.

the music track in the start of the video, anyone knows how is it called?

The stunning and absolutely phenomenal supersonic Concorde used a similar fuel system where she used a rear fuel tank to adjust the centre of gravity of the aircraft during the flight

I did not find any citations in this post, but I recognize whole sentences and possibly paragraphs from a book I read in the 1980s. My copy is lost, but I think it was the 1985 edition of 'B-58 Hustler: The World's First Supersonic Bomber' by Jay Miller. Your video includes the cover photo from the 2001 edition of this book, so I am assuming this is where you got a bunch of uncredited research and verbiage.

Great channel.. One note, I am not sure the B-36 actually qualifies as a turbo prop. Hmmm.

Great video, I loved the detail; however you over looked the B-58's capacity to carry four B43 or B61 nuclear bombs on external pylons. The bombs are shown in a line drawing at 12 :37.

@dukeford8893

Жыл бұрын

I've only seen one photo of a B-58 with that weapons load. I don't think it was used often, if at all.

whats the music during the intro b-roll?

Now you can have just 2 jet engines for the aircraft.

If it wasn't scrapped, The Cf-105 Avro Arrow could still be in service today. Caught between politics, cost and like many similar projects the use of ICBMs made these types of planes redundant at the time. Great era for aircraft development though.

One of my favorite channels, Greg's Airplanes, recommended you and I see I'm going to enjoy your material. Yes, since a young kid I too always loved the Hustler. Only similar case of "blue sky" "outside the box thinking" I can think of is the Valkyrie. I'm trying to think if anything else is near? The first jets? The first swing-wing? First stealth? First VTOL? You are the expert, you tell me...

@Millennium7HistoryTech

3 жыл бұрын

Did Greg recommend my channel? Really? I must have missed it. Thanks for telling me. About Ootb thinking, F-117 and Harrier for sure.

@dougball328

Жыл бұрын

@@Millennium7HistoryTech A-12 . . .

Hang on... at 6:04, is that Brigadier General James Stewart? James Stewart the actor (former B-24 pilot during WWII, and reservist who had seat time in B-52s after the war)? Edit: Ah... apparently Jimmy was in an Air Force Documentary Champion of Champions (and flew in one of the back seats). So probably a staged scene for the documentary?

My father designed the inlets on those dirty J-79's😃

Wow I never knew composite materials were part of the B58

Would have made a better interceptor than a bomber

I wonder what the performance would be like with modern materials, powerplant avionics etc......

I always wondered, does having the engines on the wing lower operating costs? When if this aircraft had a cranked arrow set of wings, could it dogfight?

This guy has everything right about the history of the B-58 except the facts. I suggest you read The B-58 Blunder by Colonel George Holt, Jr. He was actually there and he dispels with fact most of the myths that this guy repeats as though they were true.

The B58 was always a strange bird, not quite good at anything practical, but technically wonderful.

There really were flying dinosaurs...

As a pilot I see a big bag of trouble. What a mess!

What is that epic music track kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5WgyZmAo9TRc7w.html ? It's amazing. Great video btw.

Note that, by that time, american cars were shaped and designed like if cars once could become and replace planes themself.

This plane looks like a baby Vulcan.

B-58 Mach 2 F-16 Mach 2 F-35 Mach 1.6 😬

Imagine what we could have achieved with all that brain power ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IRON CURTAIN directed towards non-destructive enterprises. So much of our culture is devoted towards the military industrial complex that it would take almost 1 millennium of peace to change what has become a genetically in-bred population of soldiers in each nuclear power (and these are the „positive“ statistics!). Ouch! PS - awesome report! I remember building a plastic model B-58 as a Teenager and thinking it was some „really good shit“. Salomè (Live in Peace) und… Mögest Du in der Wahrheit und dem SEIN der Schöpfung leben.

4 F4 engines wooooohoooo

Idk

The Soviet were not a complex people, and in their guts understood that General Curtis LeMay was an uncomplicated stone cold killer that was as good as his word. And his word was MAD.

@TruthNerds

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting… I just heard that Dr. Strangelove's "General Jack D. Ripper" character was inspired by LeMay.

@slmyatt

3 жыл бұрын

@@TruthNerds i don't think LeMay was crazy. He was driven to make the Soviets realize there would be no winner, and I never read any info indicating he was another MacArthur.

@stevenhoman2253

2 жыл бұрын

It should never be forgotten that mutually assured destruction actually worked. It had to be mutually assured however.