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 ...

As the first operational Mach 2 bomber, the B-58 pushed the boundaries of aerodynamic design, propulsion, and avionics, positively influencing subsequent aircraft. During the Cold War, the Americans ...

Meet the B-58 Hustler: The 20th century began the era of powered flight when the Wright Brothers took to the skies in 1903. Aviation innovation didn’t stop there, and 44 years later, Chuck Yeager was ...

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 ...

For its time, the B-58 Hustler was revolutionary in many ways. It featured a radical delta wing shape, but it also included sophisticated inertial guidance navigation and bombing system, as well as a ...