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 ...

The B-58 was designed around one purpose from the beginning: carry nuclear weapons at very high speed and survive long enough ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Despite the B-58’s endurance problem, the Hustler was an impressively fast bomber that set a number of speed records. Unlike most of today’s bombers, the B-58 had a ...

In one of the strangest developments of the Cold War, plane-maker Convair proposed to build an airliner version of its Mach 2.0-capable B-58 Hustler. The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first ...

Since its founding in 1947, the U.S. Air Force has operated a variety of aircraft. It has plenty of bombers, fighters, transport planes, and more, but not everything the Air Force flies is exceptional ...