My son and I toured this museum on our way to Oshkosh. Of all the aircraft that were on display my 22 year old thought this was the coolest one there. We went to see another one at Grissom AFB that was on static display. Growing up in the 70’s. I thought it was the coolest too. I made a 1/72 scale model of it

Is there a cooler airplane?

Not many.

20-25 years ago, I was at an FBO somewhere in Louisiana.
Hanging on the wall was a photo of a B-58 shadow passing over a farm at a couple hundred feet most likely taken from the cockpit. It was one of the coolest photos I’ve ever seen, and I’d love to have a copy.
It was before I had a cellphone with a camera, or I would have at least snapped a picture of it. I also can’t say for sure which airport/FBO it was at, either.

The B-58 Hustler is one of the greatest products of the cold war. I have only seen one once at the Pima Air Museum many years ago. The GE engines had been removed but even emasculated it was an awesome sight to behold.

I saw one on display at one of the smaller airports near DFW.

I saw it fly during an Armed Forces Day event @ WPAFB in the early 1960’s; both low and high speed passes.

3 decades ago, I flew with a retired AF pilot that had flown both the B-47 and 58. Great guy, unfortunately he is no longer alive.

A B-58 used to be at Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston... oh 20 years ago.

One of Jimmy Stewarts (also Fitz Fultons) favorite aircraft.

Dan

I used to walk past the B-58 at Grissom twice a day going to and from avionics school. To me it was one of the sexiest aircraft ever made.

Speaking of high speed passes, we once had a firepower demontration on the Nellis range for some NATO bigwigs, and I got to attend the practice session a few days before the real thing.

It opened with supersonic on-the-deck runs by an F-105, F-4, and F-111. You had to looking close in the right place to see them coming, and as they went by you, they were trailing a roostertail in the sand from the shock wave. They did not say anything about range in that conditions.

They didn't have any targets for the practice, but used old cars and trucks for the real thing a few days later.

As a very young boy I learned about many of the military planes of the day from building the Revell models , including the B-58 Hustler.

I built the same kit.

Worthy thread drift… Like Paul, I built hundreds of plastic aircraft models from Revell and Monogram when I was a kid. Allowance money was always spent at the local toy store that also sold model airplane kits. Built a few balsa wood and tissue paper models as well. The only survivor is the XB-70 which flies high in my garage. Also learned a ton from a book my dad got me detailing decades of US military aircraft. My wife teases me that I have no memory except for anything that has to do with airplanes!