Convair B-58 Hustler First Flight 11 November 1956
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This is a full-length replacement for a previous upload (6500 views) that had no sound. I found this version on some old 2" studio master tapes and was able to salvage it. There are a few artifacts caused by the antiquainted video tape player but it is very viewable..
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In 1960 I was a radar maintenance tech at a new SAC Radar Bomb Scoring site we had just built on Matagorda Island, off the coast of TX. The site was mostly used for training bombediers on SAC B52s and an occasional but rare 36 or 47. We had never seen a bomb run made at over 450 knots until one afternoon in early fall, when our first B58 Hustler (I think from Bunker Hill AFB) called in from an Initial Point way up on the OK/TX line, asking for an RBS run against our site. I was plotting that day and couldn't believe my eyes when I laid the scale up on his his track and measured a ground speed of over1200 knots! Then came the sonic boom experience for the first time. What a plane! I don't remember what his score was but on later runs, some 58s scored shacks, bombing jargon for circular error of less than 300 feet. I've been retired for almost forty years now but I'll never forget that first supersonic run.
@bill605able
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome story tyvm.
@paulwoodman5131
5 жыл бұрын
Bunker Hill just put out a Hustler for display.
It was a point of pride by all of us who worked on the B-58. The only plane after WWII to have nose art. The Arkansas planes had big red razorbacks painted on the tail. I am still very much in love with the memories of the time spent with them.
Sleek wasp-waisted fuselage, thin wings, beautifully sloping tail, it easily outclasses the 102 chase plane. What a thrill it must have been on the flight line to be a part of that adventure. One of the prettiest planes I've ever seen. Sadly they decay in the AZ desert...RAM paint, modern avionics, and they might even be viable today...but at what cost. In 1958 Lockheed was developing the A-12, or now the SR-71 (but obviously it wasn't a bomber). Amazing tech for the time - recall them both!!
My father was in the Air Force and one of the first books he gave me to read when I was a child (4 yrs old in 1965) was a paperback photo book on the B-58. It was my first loved airplane. Many others since then, but that was my first (you never forget your first). Years later I visited the mothballed fleet at Davis-Monthan Field/Pima Air Force Museum, in Tuscon AZ. If you ever get a chance to go - DO IT!! If you're an aircraft buff, you won't be disappionted...Thanks for the great post Buff...
All those B-36's in the background. What a contrast.
Check out the tail of the one-of-a-kind NB-36H Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion testbed in the background at 2:51-2:59.
My grandfather was one of the lead designers of the B-58's ground following, triple redundant system while at Convair. He retired from GD at Carswell in 1972...the F-111 was his last aircraft in which he worked up. The Hustler was always his favorite though...I remember him telling me all sorts of stories about it's development and issues. Remembering that back then...ground following radar was pretty high tech stuff. He spent a lot of time at Wright Patt and Muroc back in those days. The heyday of SAC for sure! They lived right under that big water tower in the film...I mean their backyard WAS the watertower. I remember it well. My Dad swears to this day that nothing could match the sound of a B-58 flight taking off at full afterburner. Well...except the B-36 apparently...although a different sound!lol!
It's amazing how planes designed so long ago look right at home today, the B-58 and the British Vulcan could fly along with the B-2.
@noversibirsk
6 жыл бұрын
Yes exactly, and the B-58, F-102, and F-106 look futuristic.
@acajutla
Жыл бұрын
Quite a jump from the bombers of 1946
@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885
11 ай бұрын
The first Delta-Wing was constructed by german Professor A. Lippisch (DM-1 Projekt) in 1944.
Thank you for sharing this and all your others. Would never get a chance to see them, if not for you.
Best looking aircraft. Ever.
Now, that is a beautiful jet.
I was in junior high school near New Brunswick, NJ on March 5, 1962 when a B-58 broke the speed record flying across the United States. I remember that sound as they passed over the school and the shock wave that moved the blinds on an open window in the cafeteria, wow that was a thrill to have witnessed that moment in history. Ironically my father worked on the B-58 inflight power supply equipment and saw some early models at Edwards AFB. Years later I walked around one in static display at Andrews AFB.
Dad bucked rivets there @ night & fished most days on the lake's far shore. He worked @ Convair 44 thru 62. God Bless All who contributed & still continue to make damn sure that... "YOUR BEST FIGHT, IS THE ONE THAT NEVER HAPPENED" AVhistorybuff hat's off for the memory stirring's. -Former 82nd Abn. Recondo Sgt. 32019
Such a gorgeous bird WOW!!! just fantastic to watch her fly. I worked with the F106 when they were at McChord AFB WA. We had the most beautiful tail marking on any Airforce jets in the inventory at that time. It was a beautiful blue and white star burst on the tail. A beautiful aircraft to watch fly as well, both aircraft were way ahead of their time.
@mattmiller3967
9 жыл бұрын
littlejpl How bout that whistle from overhead as it passed by? I miss the old stuff. I saw them fly at Tyndall AFB FL back in the early eighties. Your right about the star burst...everyone knew it was a WA bird. Still the fastest single engine jet if I'm not mistaken.
@littlejpl
9 жыл бұрын
Matt Miller The F-106 that set the speed record is on a Pedestal stand at the McChord air museum now called McChord/Lewis because they combined the Army base and the Air base together The tail number is 57-1459 if I remember correctly. I worked on her a few times when we were still flying her at McChord with the 318th FIS
As beautiful as this plane is, it has one of the most awkward cockpit entrances I’ve ever seen on any aircraft.
they don't make 'em like that anymore. must have been some sight to see.
What a gorgeous bird!!! Kudos to Convair and it's engineers. My chest swelled up with pride hatching these bad girls fly as a Air Force brat growing up on various Air Force bases overseas and stateside during the late 50's and 60's and 70's and the when I served in the USAF from 1972 to 1976. America and her technology at it's best!!!
My favorite jet!! What a sexy plane!!! Thank you.
From nowerdays point of view nearly unbelievable. I love this sleek bird !
First I've seen without the centre fuel/bomb pod...
What a beast. It was a pain in the butt to maintain, loud, and unreliable. But nothing could catch it.
@WomackPhotoKCMO
8 жыл бұрын
+RyeOnHam Loud is good!!
@RyeOnHam
8 жыл бұрын
WomackPhotoKCMO What?!
@orange70383
8 жыл бұрын
Loud is great
@fridayray8891
3 жыл бұрын
sounds of Freedom via deterrence
Don't see the bubble top canopy on the B-36 at 6:42. It may be the NB-36, but the tail sure does make an appearance at 13:42! What a contrast between the B-36 and the B-58 in ten years time! When they were working on the brakes, it's almost comical how small the wheels and tires are on the Hustler but they sure look easier to change than the 54" wheels on the Peacemaker. (Imagine if it had stuck with the single 110" wheel/tire combo!)
A different time and process for building and testing aircraft. Thanks for posting!
I had never seen a Hustler, making the video a nice surprise. It's a work of art, such a beautiful almost delicate aircraft. The nose is pretty special. The landing gear extended serves an altogether different purpose, on a first flight of most aircraft and all Boeing commercial aircraft. You leave it down rather than tempt fate that it may have a problem and fail when retracted and then extended. Convair just had to make a fool out of me by retracting the gear eventually
@zigman8550
5 жыл бұрын
Bobby Paluga-I was thinking the same thing.They NEVER retract the landing gear on the first flight.
Just got back from the SAC Museum near Omaha, and finally got to put a hand on the B-58. My dad was an engineer who worked on the pod system. It was always my favorite a/c.
Thanks for doing the work on a great video. Definitely a favorite of mine, the B-58.
The condoms on the front end of the B-58 engines are outstanding.
Convair pioneered lots of technology in the early jet age, and they did it with smart guys and slide rules, It became General Dynamics but it still lost its autonomy. Its a shame they got absorbed.
@Jimbo-in-Thailand
5 жыл бұрын
And that's exactly why today there's not a single outstanding warplane manufacturer left in America today. All that talent and "autonomy" in that once 'best of the best' industry has been flushed down the toilet by ultra corrupt politicians allowing these heinous industry-wide anti-competition mergers. Yep, completely incompetent pork barrel supremo, aka Lockheed Martin, is proof beyond a shadow of a doubt how to ruin two outstanding individual aircraft companies. And Boeing also hasn't been able to design a successful modern warplane in decades. Boeing is still producing ancient McDonnell Douglas (that they absorbed) designs, such as the early 1970s era F-15 and later the 1990s era F-18. It's truly a sad state and going to get worse. And... it's at America's peril.
@jr7392
Жыл бұрын
Who cares! Have you seen the kickbacks politicians and retired generals are making? That's all that matters. We get the corruption we are willing to tolerate.
When I first saw that rear wheel I sensed something was wrong and the brake might not release leading to a blown tire.....yep...yep.
Beryl Ericson, kinda jealous of him! Got to put the first flights on some neat planes. Similarly Roland Beamont from BAC. Birds of a feather! I wonder what he thought about the giant leap from the B-36 to the B-58! I can't believe how tiny the wheels were on the Hustler! Smaller than some car tires, although I guess they did have to fit in a relatively thin wing. All 16 of them!
My favorite bomber
Convair had a superb history of building excellent aircraft.
John Denver's father set three speed records in a B-58, in 1961.
@orange70383
8 жыл бұрын
He didn't run into a mountain I bet.
@MarshallLoveday
Жыл бұрын
@@orange70383 Neither did John Denver. He crashed his plane in Monterey Bay trying to switch fuel tanks at a fairly low altitude. Lost control. The switch to change tanks was above and behind his right shoulder, a VERY poor design. But it was also reported that John Denver had only owned the plane for a couple of weeks, and didn't check the fuel level before he took off that day.
Awesome on how it has B-36s in the background.
Back then Convair had the claim to fame with speed, the fastest bomber, the B-58, the fastest airliner in the CV880 and CV990 plus the fastest fighter, the F-106 Delta Dart!
@machinenkanone9358
5 жыл бұрын
Why did Boeing and Northrop beat Convair out of almost every contract ?
@thetreblerebel
4 жыл бұрын
The dart was one helluva interceptor
@rhark25
4 жыл бұрын
Also the fastest seaplane with the F2Y Sea Dart
Hottest thing in the sky then..Imagine working /flying one of these nearly 60 yrs ago..
Need more detail on the maneuvers undertaken during FF --- especially pitch, yaw, and roll response, reaction, forces, feedback. Also responses to slow flight and stalls
57 years ago today!
What a bad ass company!
B-58 was an influence on later Concorde designers.
The B-58 is a very large jet, but look at it's size compared to the B-36 at 6:25. Wow!
the base shape for the b1 lancer came from this plane
@mwmcbroom
4 жыл бұрын
When I saw photos of a B-1 for the first time, these were my exact thoughts. Fuselage shapes are virtually the same.
American superiority.
incredible that just 20 years earlier this company was building Liberators
@raynus1160
7 жыл бұрын
Only 11 years between the last Lib and first B-58
Beryl A. Erickson was the man! Wish I could have met him.
Awesome 👍
It's hard to believe that plane flew 60 years ago.
and, no place to stretch your legs, move about, use the bathroom - unlike the 36, 47, 52, 17, 29, 24. No, you sat for 12 to 20 hours. Fatigue was terrible in that tight little box. Pilots hated it for those reasons.
@bill605able
5 жыл бұрын
Kinda like ms. flight sim 2004.
@zigman8550
5 жыл бұрын
uwantsun-I looked inside all three cockpits of the B-58 and the back two had ashtrays in them.At least you could smoke in them.Lol
I like the super dooper advanced computer system at 10:50. Technology sure was changing fast then. This airplane was such a huge leap forward over anything before, yet the Vietnam war cranked up less then ten years later and the B-58 played no part. Its time came and went quickly.
@joehead1294
2 жыл бұрын
ICBM...
Damn shes gorgeous. even by todays standards
Amazing to think that in 1956, while operations were rapidly ending, Steam Locomotives were still in use on American railroads.
Fantastic
Just the sight of this thing in 1956 probably gave heart palpitations inside the Kremlin.
As I recall they were two types of weapons pods that the b-58 used
Nice work
Precursor to the B-1 Lancer. I see it in the shape of the B-58. Original B-1B resembles this plane to me...I wonder if it fly's similar
@JT-gq8wv
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah - I see the strong similarities in the fuselage shape and blended body.
If you were told this superlative piece of engineering flew 23 years ago you would be surprised it was that old. If someone told you it first flew 63 years ago you would say they were liars! We had the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant which only flew less than 6years earlier and were very versatile but this is American engineering at it's very best!
The hands down sexiest plane EVER period
@Tenebrius1963
10 жыл бұрын
I do love the B-1 and maybe the Vulcan just as much. All gorgeous and deadly :-)
Great plane but the sleekest jet ever built was probably the F 90. They only built two, but it was used in comic books by Blackhawk.
@JT-gq8wv
4 жыл бұрын
Blackhawk's jet ! With lift fans in the wings !
Most beautiful bomber of all time, Valkyrie being the second imho
This was a very hot ship. Fastest US bomber ever to serve.
Once all the very strange bugs were worked out, this bomber was awesome.
small wheels for a big plane
Nice to see this -- sure was a beautiful plane! (Man, either all narrators sounded alike in these 1950s-60s documentaries, or one cat sure had a lock on this gig! Also, same could be said for the "composer(s)" of that boring underscore...the usual cold-war heroic march music (BLECH!!); personally, I'd take Ray Conniff or Enoch Light instead of this sonic sludge...)
Why would you do the initial taxi test at night?
Nove anos depois neste mesmo dia aconteceu um coisa bem mais importante: eu dei meu primeiro voo neste mundo.
The wheels are soo small
Man, she's fucking beautiful.
Why didn't they use this jet in Vietnam? It seems to me that it was a huge waste just to build 116 of these jets, fly them for 10 or so years and then park them in the desert......at least they could have gotten their money's worth by having them do something!
@chriswalton720
7 жыл бұрын
It wasn't used in Nam because it couldn't be easily adapted to carry conventional bombs, and was very inefficient when flying at low altitude to evade SAM's. It was designed to deliver nukes at high speed and high altitude, and could not do anything else well. ICBMs and SLBMs rendered it obsolete.
@bobrobert319
5 жыл бұрын
Also the wings were suffering from stress cracking. If i remember this led to them being grounded.
Si me dieran a elegir para pilotear un avión de EEUU sin lugar a dudas elijo este el combatir B 58 usler. Ala en delta y cuatro motores y su cabina sus pilotos desían k era muy complejo su pilotaje.
This such beatiful but still far too more sophistified plane served only for a decade. It's mostly guessed opponent would be a MiG-21, which flies at same speed (2.05 M). This plane was also extremetely expensive, as called a "James Dean-plane" or "Living fast, dying young".
ground crews in suits and ties
Deveria ter uma função no KZread q bloqueasse os comerciais.
I was wondering about the outdated World War 2 propaganda music, but then I realised that this is only like 11 years after the end of that conflict.
design stolen off of the WWll Luwaffe design boards
@stefanrogers9091
6 жыл бұрын
Fred Taylor well Lippisch was involved in designing it so it's obvious that there was some inspiration involved
way too overpowered..........check it out.........................
The music they used for these official videos was just atrocious.
That gear is to spindly, real real bad design. They should've known better than to have designed a turd like that.
@MrRedcj7
8 жыл бұрын
Actually the gear is strong , light as possible and a marvel of 1950's engineering.