Unsurprisingly, the United States was the first nation to field a supersonic jet bomber. The Convair B-58 “Hustler” first took to the skies in the mid-1950s and would serve the Air Force ...

A Total Failure? The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first supersonic bomber and the first to reach Mach 2 speeds. Developed in the 1950s for the U.S. Air ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.16394407.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.16394407.2 When the B-58 Hustler bomber entered service in 1958 it was a very futuristic looking ...

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 ...

One of them, the Convair B-58 Hustler, looks radical even today With its long, slender fuselage, dramatically swept delta wing, and four big engines, the B-58 looked fast even when it was on the ...

The B-58 Hustler was well named: it could hit Mach 2, the first bomber to go so fast. So why did the Air Force dump it ...