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Very nice video, thank you. A slight correction regarding the A-7F supersonic variant. There's a prototype on display at the Hill Air Force Base Museum, which I've seen and have pictures of somewhere. Wikipedia says there were two prototypes but I can't say anything about the second airframe.

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The blue Arrows are pointing to the ailerons not the elevators.

I think it’s easy to discount the Vietnam War as a waste of men and materiel and it was an excruciatingly high cost for both sides but it was required in order to draw a line in the sand not to be crossed. Had the Americans prosecuted the war to its fullest extent, then undoubtedly it would have spread wider and risked the very thing it was intended to prevent. It must have been appalling to be caught up in but they did their job and moderated the, until then, rampant spread of communism in the Far East. I for one salute them and the service that they gave without reservation. All wars are lamentable but some were essential for peace. This is not so true today sadly. 😢

Great video on the A-7!. I always Iiked the looks of the Corsair 2. Keep the videos coming.

Served on the USS Neverdock. Home ported in Bumfuch, Egypt. General quarters station was Rumor Control out of Mess Deck Central, ComCarTray, ComSrvBtr. Before that was in an A7 outfit out of Lemoore in 70- 75

Well, ar least she saw active service. That wasn't the case for some other extraordinary aircraft like the XB-70 Valkyrie, the BAC TSR-2, the Avro CF-105 Arrow and the Sukhoi T-4 Sotka.

great video

How about you do that 2 hour pod video!👍

So effectively this was the Barnes Wallis of the bouncing bomb, in a low to the ground bomber to scare the life out of crew and enemy?.

Just a curiosity: notice the close looks of B-58's nose profile with the F-111 and F-16

The EE Lightning was the only fighter to accomplish a Mach 2 Concorde interception during a NATO exercise. The Hustler would have been in the same situation. Two that never shoot in hanger.

10/20 felt like flying on tails @ 500 knots his that what he said

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of the use of narrators with a Brit/UK/Etc accent? Not everyone with such an accent makes a good narrator! Too many of them sound stuffy, haughty, or just quietly arrogant, and a LOT of them have such strong accents that English subtitles are needed (ironically). A narrator should be able to speak clearly and properly. A fancy accent is not needed. Nor is a bot. Rant over.

57:38 The initialism for "Forward Looking Radar" is "FLR." "FLIR" means "Forward-Looking InfraRed."

It's not ugly, it looks cool.

For whatever reason it seems the narrator has had some issues with the British.

Very, very good!

Really outstanding job of detailing this weapons system.

Just FYI, Strategic Air Command bases were not pronounced es ey see (the letters) but "sack" as in McConnell air force base is a SAC (pronounced sack) base.

My most prized model as a child was the hustler. It had plastic "flames" coming out of the engines. As a young USAF officer, I served as a Titan II launch officer, 74-79.

Anyway, great video, best I've seen on the 58 - nice work! :)

An absolutely gorgeous-looking, gazelle of an aircraft but I think the pod system was probably it's Achille's heel. Overly complex and limiting. The lack of an internal bomb bay on a designed from-the-ground-up bomber is always going to raise questions.

The UK has always had ultra badass fighter aircraft, but our successive commie governments always cancelled the programmes. Anybody NOTICING anything here?

This tanker literally took more ordinance than a fucking battleship to sink.

Send those flying Machines to the Philippines❤😊

Part 2?

Did they ever build one of those 4/12 inch aircraft cannon?

Buccaneers in Gibraltar 1992, I was on a small sailing boat moored near the end of the runway. They would take off and roll out beside us waving well below mast height

Pretty good video. As a SAC-trained killer, I can assure you, that nobody EVER spelled out the acronym... we said "sack" as in what testicles are carried in. The B-58 was retired before I served. I worked on many other aircraft, but always admired the B-58 as a concept.

I dont know why but I always thought the Corsair was a bad ass fighter

why edit the thumbnail like that instead of just using the original frame of the buc flying low

My Dad worked for Convair 50s thru 70s

Another great US aircraft powered by a British engine (TF-41= Upgraded RR Spey turbofan) like the Merlin Mustangs, the P&W J-42 and 48 (RR Nene and Tay) in the Cougar/Panther series, the Armstrong Siddely Sapphire (Wright J-65) in the B-57 Canberra and the Skyhawk , and of course the incomparable RR Pegasus Harrier. Good partnerships make great aircraft.

My hunch is that the B-1A program shifted money away from the B-58 operating & upgrade budget. Was it a case of the Bomber Mafia wanting the next gen hardware that they were willing to risk the gap years without a supersonic bomber?

Why would Americans want to shoot down UK aircraft, Skippy ? Preposterous. Phony thumbnail too.