Video convair b58 hustler

One of them, the Convair B Hustler, looks radical even today. With its long, slender fuselage, dramatically swept delta wing, and four big engines, the B looked fast even when it was on the ground. It was one of the first aircraft to take advantage of the knowledge that the way to overcome drag in supersonic flight is to sweep the wings at such an angle that the aircraft flies within the Mach cone, a three-dimensional bow wave formed around a body moving through the air at supersonic speed. When the wings are within that cone, the airflow over them remains subsonic.

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A first cousin of the hot "century series" of jet fighters, the delta winged "Hustler' medium bomber combined outstanding performance with a striking, javelin-like profile that spawned a mystique that survives to this day. In the early s, at the height of the Cold War, in just two years the B captured an unheard of 14 speed and performance records, many previously held by Soviet aircraft. She was not only capable of extended mph on-the deck missions at feet then unheard of for a bomber and without the advantages of today's ground hugging radar or fly-by-wire she also set altitude and climb records. The B was capable of doing whatever was necessary to invade enemy air space. As Jimmy Stewart says in this film, she was a lot more than a "hot rod" made for setting records, she was a lethal weapon of war -- and an outstandingly handsome aircraft.

Air Force photo. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock. Photo courtesy of Lyle Jansma, Aerocapture Images.