What You Need to Know: The B-58 Hustler, produced by Convair in the 1950s, was the first supersonic bomber capable of exceeding Mach 2. Developed as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War, the ...

Key Points - The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world's first supersonic bomber, a Cold War marvel designed to penetrate Soviet airspace at Mach 2. -It carried its nuclear weapon and extra fuel in a ...

Key Points and Summary - The B-58 Hustler was the U.S. Air Force’s first operational supersonic bomber, a delta-winged, nuclear-armed hot rod that shattered speed and altitude records in the 1960s.

Standing on the runway on insectlike legs, the plane had a hunched, tense look. Its nose was a sharp metal spike, and the leading edges of its delta wing curled downward a little, suggesting a cobra’s ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The conventional bombing role of the traditional medium bomber would shift to the fighter-bomber, first the FB-111 Aardvark (an aircraft with its own long set of ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11033252.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11033252.2 When the B-58 Hustler bomber entered service in 1958 it was a very futuristic looking ...

A B-58 Hustler bomber is moved off the Chanute Air Museum grounds Monday morning. It is the next-to-last plane to be disassembled and then reassembled elsewhere. Some of the planes to be scrapped at ...