STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND CONVAIR B-58 HUSTLER FILM "TALL MAN FIVE FIVE" 67624z
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Created by Convair in the early 1960s to promote the B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber, this film shows its role with Strategic Air Command as one part of America's nuclear defense. It also does its best to defend the aircraft's loud "sonic booms" -- created as it broke the sound barrier -- against public criticism.
The film also shows the B-52 (seen after the six minute mark) and the Atlas missile. The narrator comments that manned aircraft carrying atomic weapons can be recalled after launch, while an ICBM cannot -- a crucial difference that helped inform SAC's mission.
The supersonic, delta-wing B-58 is shown in more detail at about the eight minute mark in the film. The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational supersonic jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. The aircraft was designed by Convair engineer Robert H. Widmer and developed for the United States Air Force for service in the Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the 1960s. It used a delta wing, which was also employed by Convair fighters such as the F-102, with four General Electric J79 engines in pods under the wing. It carried a nuclear weapon and fuel in a large pod under the fuselage rather than in an internal bomb bay.
Replacing the Boeing B-47 Stratojet medium bomber, it was originally intended to fly at high altitudes and supersonic speeds to avoid Soviet fighters. The B-58 received a great deal of notoriety due to its sonic boom, which was often heard by the public as it passed overhead in supersonic flight.
The introduction of highly accurate Soviet surface-to-air missiles forced the B-58 into a low-level penetration role that severely limited its range and strategic value, and it was never employed to deliver conventional bombs. This led to a brief operational career between 1960 and 1970, when the B-58 was succeeded by the smaller, swing-wing FB-111A.
On March 5, 1962 two Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic bombers from the 65th Bombardment Squadron, 43rd Bombardment Wing, Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, took off at sunrise and headed west to Los Angeles, California. Off the Pacific coast they refueled from a Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker, then headed east at maximum speed to New York. The total elapsed time, Los Angeles-New York-Los Angeles, was 4 hours, 41 minutes, 14.98 seconds (4:41:14.98) for an average speed of 1,044.97 miles per hour (1,681.71 kilometers per hour) The crew and the airplane "Tall Man Five Five" established three National Aeronautic Association speed records for Speed Over A Recognized Course. At Los Angeles the crew, Captain Robert G. Sowers, Pilot, Captain Robert MacDonald, Navigator, and Captain John T. Walton, were congratulated by General Thomas S. Power, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command, and each airman was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. For the eastbound transcontinental flight, the crew won the Bendix Trophy, and for “the most meritorious flight of the year,” they were also awarded the MacKay Trophy.
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Mac 2 with no afterburner???
@@jhonnythefox7903
Mac 1, speed of sound, Mac 2, twice the speed of sound. Mac 1 in the 50’s.
Fresh out of tech school Amarillo TX 1964 was ordered to Edwards AFB and was a mechanic on the TB-58 that flew chase for the XB-70 those days will never return and am glad to have lived them. I am now 76 and they are forever in my mind. The great days of my life in the Air Force. Went to be the crew chief the C-141 A and C-130 E
Greetings from Norway! Did you fly in Scandinavia?
Incredible...
You saw&lived the heydays of aviation and experienced some pretty cool stuff!!
Be proud&thanks for your long&important service
God bless &enjoy those memories
65 yrs old - C-5A and C-141 USAF was best job I ever had ...this brings back a memory - I never didn't enjoy a Box Lunch. haha.
@@pierredecine1936 When you're really hungry that box lunch looked like a gourmet buffet.!! 😯
Amazing I too was at Amarillo AFB at that time but in another type of tech school I’m now 77 wow
B-58 look extremely fast just sitting there on the tarmac! One of the most beautiful bombers ever made!
For the protection of our way of life....and our precious bodily fluids.
I have a feeling Kubrick must have seen this prior to making Strangelove ......
Remember, there's no fighting in the War Room.
A mutiny of preverts
I approve of this comment.
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
I was a kid in the sixties, and a fanatical aviation buff. I had a 1/48 scale B-58 and I never thought a sonic boom was anything but thrilling. I loved imagining that it was made by a Hustler like mine!
Tall Man Five Five or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boom
Lt. Col. Henry J. "Dutch" Deutschendorf , father of Henry J. Deutschendorf, Jr., better known by his stage name, “John Denver”, flew the Convair B-58A-10-CF Hustler, 59-2442, Untouchable for two laps of a 1,000 kilometer circuit between Edwards and Yuma, establishing six new FAI speed records at an average of 1,061.81 miles per hour.
I believe he became the Wing commander at Carswell at some point. I was hoping to see him in this film.🇺🇸✈️
I was six, living near McClellan AFB, California. I saw a plane flying and asked my dad (career USAF) what kind it was. He said it was a B-58. I immediately responded..."The HUSTLER." He talked about this for years. Didn't take much to impress my dad!
@Dennis Svitak , Your Dad sounded really nice... Like a Man who was proud of his kids... My folks were much the same way... Proud of their kids... One person who fulfilled that image on a T.V. program that You might remember from the 60's was a Fella named Lauren Green... He played the part of Ben Cartwright on a show called 'Bonanza'...
@@michaelmartinez1345 Lorne Greene... Canadian actor. Later! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Hmmm, I was not aware that Lorne Greene was a Canadian... An Interesting notion... I liked him when he was in Bonanza...That darned spell- incorrect check got me on that one !!! I want to turn that stupid thing off, but need to get the folks, from where I bought this thing, show me how to perform that kind of a casteration.. Thanks for pointing out that error that my device created...
@@michaelmartinez1345 LOL:) Yep I hear ya... Castration not casteration as well LOL:) Lorne Greene was also Jewish IIRC. Great actor. Loved him in the original Battlestar Galactica as well... Far superior to the newer crap. Have a good one! OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Thank you for the nice compliment Luke!!! Yes, I really should get that darned spell-incorrect check thing removed soon!!! I did not know Lorne Greene was Jewish... You learn something every day!!! Lorne Greene was a good role model, and showed us what fairness and values were , and how important those traits were. Lets hope that feeling of fairness and values will stay with us , as long as it possibly can...
Having grown up in the USSR, these films are really interesting to me, to see what the other side was thinking and doing during the cold war.
When I was five in 1959 a B-58 crashed near my house with a loss of life...I can remember the sound of it screaming over my house on fire and then it hitting the ground about 3 miles away.
The B-58 Hustler was/is the most beautiful USAF plane ever deployed, or likely ever will be. She was beautiful, powerful, a challenge to fly. Gone too soon, and ahead of her time. Gorgeous and deadly and I'm glad I got to see one. Excellent video.
Yes some were bothered by the sonic booms but it was explained
to them that the sonic boom is much quieter than a nuclear blast.
I remember hearing sonic booms when i was a kid and i thought they were very cool.
Out in quiet farmland in the central US we'd hear sonic booms fairly frequently. This was mostly during warm months when we spent most our time outside. Some were loud enough to bounce the big wrenches hanging on the machine shed wall. I'd always run out to try and find the source but never saw a trace of aircraft...zip, zero, nada, none. This was during the 1960s into maybe 1975 era. After that the sonic booms quit or rather I never heard another one.
My dad is in this video clip (11:36). With fighter planes gauarding the KC-135 over the Aleutian, it was the B-58's on the firing line that put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Did he fly Hustlers for SAC his entire career? Or switch back to B-52s once the Hustler started being withdrawn?
My father was career Army, Military Police, we were stationed at White Sands back in the sixties.
I remember hearing a sonic boom all the time during class. I also remember doing the "duck and cover" during class.
Such old memories.
The sound track on this is amazing! First, a full orchestra played the score, then of course some sound effects, I love the old movies for their sound tracks.
Don’t care what anyone says, that was always one of my favorite planes when I was a small kid because it just looked fast just standing there! That and the A-4 SkyHawk because that one was like a sports car!
Thanks for uploading this. I was stationed at one of the RBS (Radar Bomb Sites) in the 80's. We still used the old radars from the 50's for tracking/scoring, ECM and missle/gun defense. B-58s were long gone then and replaced with the B-52, B-1, and FB-111. The B-58 is still my favorite bomber though.
Thanks for your service to our great nation.
Was there ever a finer-looking aircraft than the B-58 Hustler? Ever?
I watch 3 B-58 fly by one day when I was up on a granite peak due south from the north end of the Keweenaw peninsula in Northern Michigan where there was a major radar station. They had bombs under the wings total of 4 each and the big pod. They came from the southeast curved by around the mountain below where I was standing then headed due north towards the station dropping down to 50 feet above the trees and speeding up for a run across Lake Superior. Once in a lifetime event. I also saw Canberra stooging around from the Candian side on occasion. Also 2 F-94C interceptors buzzed me when I was in a boat near the granite Hills, they were 20 feet up when they pulled out the dive from around 10,000 feet over Lake Superior. A little too close.
The "Boom" of freedom. That's what the air force guys said when they visited our school. They gave out swag as well. I still have my "SAC" wings and autographed pic of a Hustler (1965)
Living in El Paso 64 - 66, as a kid. I would hear sonic booms daily.
I miss sonic booms…..used to be common and sparked my interest in aviation which became an important piece of my work related life.
I live 5 minutes from Carswell JRB. Only thing that flys out of there now is F-16, F-18, C-130 and the new F-35. Wish i had grown up when the B-52, B-36 and the beautiful B-58 Hustler were stationed here.
When I was a kid growing up I used to love hearing sonic booms I knew it meant that somewhere and Air Force jet was breaking the sound barrier.
Loved seeing the B-58's out of Carswell in the 60's. We used to get at least 2 sonic booms a day.
I WAS BORN IN KOKOMO IND 20 MILES FROM THE 305TH WING AT BUNKER HILL, LATER KNOWN AS GRISSOM A.F.B. MY DAD AND GRANDDAD WOULD TAKE ME OUT ON A SATURDAY TO WATCH THE HUSTLERS TAKE OFF. ONLY SAW MAY BE 5 OR 6 IT WAS STILL A SIGHT TO BE SEEN AND A SOUND I WILL NEVER FORGET.
Last time I checked, Grissom ARB (Air Reserve Base) still has a B-58 on static display.
Duck and Cover! Those were the days. I grew up in Massachusetts in the 60s and remember the sonic booms.
Gotta admire Chet's punch-in on the opening line!
My dad was career airforce and was a mechanic on 50 and 60s airforce planes before he switched to radars in 1969. I saw alot of these great planes.
24:41. The poor old fellow probably thought he was back at the Argonne for a moment...
I remember the sonic booms. The B-58 has been the wickedest looking bomber ever built. I love it.
best looking operational bomber - but the best looking was the XB70.
I miss the Huntley-Brinkley Report.
Beethoven 9th 2nd movement.
If wishes were horses,
Rides would be free,
If Huntley were Cronkite,
We'd watch NBC
MAD Magazine
1968
@@jameswood8860 Now *there's* a memory!
Summer of 1961 i spent living very close Carswell AFB/CONVAIR plant. Saw many B-58 and B-52 takeoffs..Impressive.
The old news clip is a reminder that once upon a time we had national news anchors who were actually objective. This has not been true for a long time. As for the B-58, I, as a kid put up the plastic kit of that bomber and thought the delta wings were so cool. To me it was a golden era of the jet as the new technology for jets began after WWII and it seems like different jets were being built every year.
Since 1987, when Reagan rescinded the FCC’s Fairness Act of 1949.
@@blackhawk7r221 well, his FCC appointee(s) rescinded the FCC's Equal Time Rule under the Fairness Doctrine.
But yep! The rescinding of the Equal Time Rule a large part of the reason we've lost guys like Huntley and Cronkite and Brinkley and Chancellor and the like.
@@RapperBC The other aspect with the path that news reporting has taken is with the TV networks [US . . . I always put that in since YT is a world-wide audience] obsession with making the news operations profitable.
It used to be the network news operations were subsidized by the TV companies. But, that changed when the networks wanted the news operations to be profit centers. So, the importance of news became secondary to the content that can attract the largest viewing audience. As reporting on substance issues may not attract as large an audience as frivolous or opinionated topics.
We called that boom the sound of freedom!
I love how SAC basically told people "don't like the sonic boom from our aircraft? Well live with it or go eff yourself." It goes to show that fear has the ability to make a large population group do things they wouldn't normally do.
I was assigned to 64th Bomb Sqdn as Ops clerk in 1963. Trfr to Little Rock AFB with the 43rd Bomb Wing.
"Excuse me, sir."
"Yes, captain. What is it?"
"Sir, is there any chance I might change my call sign to 'Tall Man Six Two'?"
I attended Deerfield Academy. I wonder did the air force clear this bombing run with the headmaster, Mr. Boyden?
A very cool video... These cold war planes are amazing.... Made in the days when ANY part of the world, could be overflown at supersonic speeds, and do so with a loud BOOM !!! I Remember hearing those anywhere I went, at any time... Not only the USAF had these capabilities, but the Navy & Marine Corps also had supersonic planes as well...
Dad was career af ,I heard these sonic booms every day that was at Amarillo Air Force Base
Nothing can bother you, if you have a strong powerful and majestic SAC.
SAC hasn't been around for decades.
Now I want a giant world map with a manlift in front ...
Me too.
First electric bill will change your mind on that. I had to stop my world domination plans just for that (that and I couldn't come up with a cool evil company name)
@@lycossurfer8851 "SpaceX" was taken?
Every evil empire needs several.
Undoubtedly the coolest bomber ever produced by anyone.
I don't know, didn't the Russians have one with counter-rotating props and bottomless vodka served in pint glasses?
Notice at 12:00. Those 30 somethings were serious MEN. Not little man boys with a physical age of 30+ but an emotional maturity of 13 as is so common today.
Real men doing the tough job of protecting our country. Thank you for your service to our country.
Taking on responsibilities makes people more mature.
The Cold War Era had leadership with guys like Curtis LeMay and men like these at 12:00. Today, the leadership is stained by clowns like Milley and Austin, blind to Mission Focus, and focused on wokeness, imagined Extremism, and maternity flightsuits, and content to bow to liberal thought and continuously lowered standards. We are now very far from having a military fighting force capable of sustaining combat on two fronts. I crewed
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Hadda grow up quick considering you were probably dead by your early 60s if you didn't kick off in your 50s.
Very interesting film. I spent 3 years at Offutt AFB - show in the video. I had to regularly access the equipment in the back of the screens to change the codes on some coding machines that would be used to alert the missile sites in case of launch. Was a very unique place to spend my enlistment at. 1969-1973
At around 18:16 into the video, with the speed they've ramped up to, imagine going from Chicago to New York City in a bit over a half-hour.
A beautiful aircraft. Just a shame it was so expensive to operate.
I swear I saw a B56 flying over my juinor high in 1995 during gym class ,I found out much later that there was one airworthy aircraft which was flow to the airforce museum at about the same time,so it had to have been that aircraft.
Deerfield's definitely got some ghosts.
It's only because of this film that I know .... that uhhh .... I guess the British were doing all kinds of tyrannical shit around there at one time? I know one thing the Brits did for a while after the US won independence, was "impressing" which meant, if they caught a US ship they captured the sailors, treating them as British sailors who'd gone AWOL. Generally this meant "impressing" them into duty on English ships or in other labor roles.
One of the 3 best -looking aircraft ever produced - B58 - F-105 and Lockheed Constellation.
Disagree, F-100C and F-86
@@robertstack2144 nice, but not beautiful ...
You are right, but I would add the F-104 as well, and maybe the 106 too.
@@Hattonbank I frown on everything about the F-104 - Lockheed's un-needed coffin ...
Agreed on the F-86. The yellow-nose Luftwaffe FW-190 is also a good-looking aircraft.
Jet Blast the sound and smell of freedom!
Still the most beautiful plane ever built. Just a perfect looking aircraft! OL J R :)
Damned thing won the Bleriot Trophy. 2,000 kilometers an hour on a race-track course. 1,242 3/4 miles an hour. But the hand-writing was on the wall: missiles would make bombers obsolete. Even though the Valkyrie was yet to be built, bombers alone were toooooooooooo expensive when a rocket could do the same thing in only 30 minutes at a fraction of the cost. What a shame.
SAM technology played a big role too.
@@booklover6753 Yes, SAMs and faster/higher flying Soviet aircraft like Foxbat.
Alternate target was the missile complex at LaPuta.
Sadly, these planes haven't been flying for 60 years.
It was impressive seeing one up close. It looks mean. Like, suicide mission at the end of the world kind of mean.
I love the song during the closing credits.
I know it sounds silly but I miss the cold war in certain ways. We took our military technology and strength more seriously back then, and we had round the clock bombers in the air EVERY second of the day. Sure drones do a lot of that now and satellites can do other aspects, but it almost feels like we have become lazy after the cold war ended.
Thank you ☺️
B-52 Aircraft Commander in 1971-1972. Alert target was 2 nukes to Moscow.
Beautiful aircraft,named like my girlfriend, Hustler!
That is a good looking aerodoodle.
Thank You!
Beautiful aircraft!!
I had an uncle who was on B58s at Little Rock AFB.He was a defensive systems officer, or something similar. Can't recall correct name at the moment
Used to hear the sonic boom quite often.
At least the Missilers got their meals free.
Little did they know the BUFF would still be flying today.
Lovin' the Star Trekesk music. Ah! The sixties!
I noticed that, too... this was produced in 1960, or so.
😂😂😂 @11:40 DSO Capt. William _ _ _ _ 😂😂😂 That's my dad. 👋 Hi DAD❗️😊
Awesome!... like a dart ✈️👍
@6:30 More precisely, the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was born.
Definitely a different time.
That's true very second!
17:10: Just loved those USAF boxed meals - ummmm, ummm!
"Purchased their box lunch suppers...." that's pretty lame ,I was in the Canadian forces in the 80s and I never paid a dime for a meal.....those guys are riding on the tip of the spear doing extreme things you would think that Uncle Sam could pick up the tab.
See my "Fun Fact" above. In the US military, if you're enlisted, meals are provided while if you're an officer you have to buy them.
My Dad was a B-58 pilot and I can remember him bringing home those little box lunches for me if there was something left that he knew I would like such as chocolate or chewing gum. They also included little packs of cigarettes with three or four cigarettes. I wasn’t clear when or where they ate these lunches as I had sat around with my Dad’s helmet on and I couldn’t see him eating in that! We were at Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana and sometimes he would tell me I flew over your Grandmother’s house today! She lived in San Bernardino, CA!
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars.
General Curtis Emerson LeMay or the Air Force specification sheet for the B-58?
I heard from a reliable source that LeMay contracted Bell's Palsy while shuttling the first of the bombers to Europe in WW-II. Bell's Palsy is type of facial paralysis. LeMay used the cigar as a way to prevent occasionally drooling from that side of his mouth. Yes, I know it sounds far fetched. The guy I heard it from respected LeMay. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_Bell%27s_palsy - Interesting list, Georg Clooney for one
Oklahoma City was one of the cities picked for sonic boom testing in the early 1960s. I grew up there during that testing. They scheduled several sonic booms per day. We hated when those booms happened. They would scare you to death.
A good one would bounce the big wrenches hanging on our machine shed wall. If you were between Grand Forks, Offett and Ellsworth AFB's you got to hear some noise. lol The F-100's from Des Moines, Sioux City and Sioux Falls would make their presence known, as they ventured further west to practice areas or rather Military Operations Areas.
Mmmmm…..shiny metallic sexiness…ahh the frigid days of the old Cold War!
Over the past 2 years or so I have observed the bots herein and I comment in direct contrast to the fake stories as history and multitude of online guises in doing so.
1950s stealth hide. It behind a curtain ,and I know all the passwords now
15:44. They purchased their meals? Millions of dollars worth of aircraft, fuel, personnel, and everything else, the crew had to buy their own meals? Weird place to cut costs.
Fun Fact: In the US military, meals are provided if you're enlisted, while if you're an officer you have to buy them.
A beautiful but pretty useless plane. Not much operational service life, not much flight legs. As I recall expensive and hard to keep operational.
I served in SAC in the 1980s as a missile launch officer. It was a serious business and the ghost of Curtiss LeMay was ever present. It was demanding. Proud to have served my four years holding the keys, but glad I did not have to do for longer.
In the late 70s to 1990ish I did a lot of hunting in western South Dakota. Early on there was a few missile silos scattered around (roughly) the Badlands area. A couple years after Reagan's election I started noticing more and more new silo installations. I always told hunting buddies if I see a silo cover moving "by itself", I'm flooring the gas and heading east PRONTO.>!! Later on, I started wondering if there even was real missiles in those new silos, or if they were just to psyche out the Russians making them think we had so many more nukes.
Planes back then didn't have the luxury of computer development and a program to tell you if it would work or not. If you had an idea you built and tried it. If it didn't work you went back to the drawing board. Until the B-58 flew it was unknown territory
@Gold Geologist, I served in the Marines through the early to mid-80's as well... Most of my time was at a base that is no longer there, MCAS ElToro just outside of Santa Ana, Calif. I worked a little on A-4's & F-4's, but most of my time there was on CH-46 Helicopters... We maintained those planes, and went on some detachments onto various locations nearby for training... I really liked it, but at that time, Congress was trimming the budgets, and the military is where many of them started to do deep cuts... The Gramm-Rudman act was something that gave most retirement oriented service people, early out's with seps. bonus's, so the crooks in congress could screw them out of their retirements... I saw that happening with several people who had 2, 3, sometimes even 4 'hashmarks' (enlistments)... Never once did I see or hear of anybody in Congress or the Senate or the jokers they appointed (to some 'cushy' places) , being FORCED to take early retirements!!! Anyway, several people left before retiring, because of Congressional Generated budget cuts... About the B-58 Hustler, it was the world's first super-sonic bomber that could fly above mach 2... The missiles were fun to watch, even more fun to see them explode soon after a launch... Impressive? Absolutely!!! But NOT for the right reasons... The missiles, certifiably became THE MOST EXPENSIVE FIREWORKS 🎆🎇 in history... Even after they managed to keep them from blowing-up after the launchs, it took the engineers quite-awhile to develop technology to be able to survive the tremendous heat generated on re-entry into the atmosphere, and if it was carrying a nuclear payload, keeping the container intact WITHOUT melting and creating a world-wide cloud system of radioactive ☢️ fallout...Many program payloads, simply vaporized before they even got anywhere close to the target 🎯.from the re-entry. Finally they were able to solve some of those issues from re-entry heating...Then came the remote guidance challenge.... I have heard from reliable sources who were involved in those programs from the late 50's to the early 70's, and they said that the guidance systems presented some of the greatest challenges.... This was a time that the U.S. space 🚀 exploration program and the Soviet space exploration programs were racing to get to the moon... And whole nations with millions of people were getting into this...The guidance systems were vastly improved because of the Space-Race... Finally a somewhat reliable remote guidance system was worked out, but still not as reliable and useful as they wanted (needed) it to be, as the Apollo 1, Apollo 13 flights and the other failures of the U.S. space program demonstrated (Columbia , Challenger) as well as the Soviet space program failures (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 2) also demonstrated... It takes time and research and LOTS of $ to make complex things work reliably...Perhaps, the most spectacular failures of all of the rocketry programs, were the 4 seperate attempts the Soviets made to launch the massive N-1 rockets, with numerous engines... The second attempt they made created the most powerful non-nuclear man-made explosion 💥 in history... However, on the bright side, That B-58 WAS IMPRESSIVE, as it successfully sustained TWICE the speed of sound and set NUMEROUS RECORDS, FOR ROC, SUSTAINED HIGH SPEED FLIGHT, ALTITUDE, RELIABILITY, SERVICABILITY, CREW TRAINING AND COORDINATION BETWEEN THE PLANE AND THE GROUND... This plane could set altitude and endurance records of carrying a 11,200 lb. Payload to well over FL 85 for sustained periods and cruise @Mach 2 for sustained periods...Check that out, don't take my word for it... The Soviets had nothing that could even come close to reaching it at that time... Both the Soviets and the U.S.had missiles at that time, but they all had nasty habits of exploding soon after the launch... These B-58's we're highly advanced and the GE J-79 engines they were equipped with, were the first ever axial-flow jet engines that featured VSV's., Which dramatically increased thrust, efficiency, Power to weight ratio, and service life... The B-58's and their crews were highly responsible, for keeping the Soviets from trying to attack the U.S. and our allies... Remember that before you go to sleep.... Those planes did what they were designed to do, BETTER than even Gen. Curtis LeMay expected... Remember that, before you go to sleep... Thank the people who designed and supported these programs (like the B-58) for allowing you to sleep peacefully.... Other very successful defence programs followed the B-58's, too many to list here...
For what it's worth: John Denver's father was a B-58 pilot
Sonic booms are the sounds of freedom...😃
Many U.S. "freedoms" have been quietly and systematically taken away using the "war-on-terror"/'9/11' catch-all excuse: it didn't need a threat from Russia.
Notice anything familiar about the engines that powered the B-58? Take out the afterburners and you have the CJ805 engines that powered the Convair 880 jetliner.
Yes that was the case!!
Fallout shelters, sonic boom, civil defense, nuclear bombers, etc. Compared to today's world, I felt more comfortable back then!!
It seemed more controlled, more organized, more prepared compared to now. But it didn't seem that way at the time.
@@LuvBorderCollies you are absolutely right, I have to admit that I was really nervous during that time period!
I feel more safer with terrorists then today's government. The terrorists were being watched and caught. The government is unchecked And a free-for-all.
It's time to start feeling nervous again.
No wonder we are all on anti-anxiety medication.
This is the second video that tells the crews have to BUY THEIR OWN MEAL! Charlie Sierra GOLF FOXTROT.
How come UFO's don't make sonic booms?
Because they're not real.
Recent events in the last couple years would tell you there IS something, just merely undetermined as to the origin so far. As to why a UFO doesn't generate a huge sonic boom? Current advanced technologies can reduce or even partially dissipate the overpressure that produces sonic booms already. Given the advanced nature of the UFO/UAFs we are seeing it is entirely likely that the technologies have been worked out to completely eliminate any sufficiently loud noise. The difference in technologies between our current technological understanding and the UAF is like trying to directly compare a Ford Model 'A' with a 2023 Tesla Roadster.
@@Crashg1972 Since UFOs don't have any concern for earthly regulations limiting sonic-boom nuisance, why would the noise they made matter to whoever/whatever was flying them ?
@@None-zc5vg That involves making an assumption that the technology involved is even capable of producing the overpressure necessary for a sonic boom in the first place? I personally doubt the constructs of UAP/UFOs even are capable of making a sonic boom because the technology appears to sidestep some standard modern physical limitations; air resistance and inertia among many other unusual properties. Whether or not the noise reduction is a voluntary effect or a mere byproduct of the technologies at hand is anybody’s guess. Referencing my previous analogy of the Ford Model A and comparison to a Tesla Roadster. The analogy of sound generated by the respective technologies is equally dissimilar. As would be the energy, efficiency, speed, and maneuverability. It’s so disparate that you’d be hard pressed to call them both a “car”.
‘Cause ain’t no pressure waves created by inter-dimensional travel.., duh silly human! Got to eat my box lunch supper now..,
High speed skin erosion was a problem on the B-58. Too fast for the aluminum.
Interesting. Not heard that before but it makes sense.
Love the tactical sandwiches!
Tactical Wonder Bread lol
@alexcarter8807 it's strategically delicious!
But the music...
Those were wild and crazy times back than. Yet somehow I miss it.
Things were black and white and you knew who your enemies were and where they were.
OMG...THE BIG BOARD.
I wonder if this is where Kubrick got his inspiration?
興味深い
9:30, “Once fired against its target, the ICBM cannot be called back. Bombers can.”
Explains so much about our philosophy that justified such a misprioritization of national resources.
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LRAFB 66-70, 43 OMS B-58 ground crew 1019
43OMS CAFB 62-64 LRAFB 64 68 GROUND CREW/ CC- 59-2450 unless u were there don't knock it. Mine outflew missiles in a test. Acft. flown by wing cmdr Col Fry.
"Purchased their box lunch suppers"? Really? The USAF couldn't spring for supper?
Yeah well, blather what you will, but the days depicted herein are infinitely preferable to 2020...