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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'...
@@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...
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Re sonic boom. Growing up in the 60's, sonic booms were common. FFWD to early 80's, when the first shuttle landed at Edwards, my dog was sitting in front of the TV. We were watching coverage of the landing. My dog stood up suddenly and barked like crazy. A few seconds later, we heard the boom (we were near Fresno area). A few minutes after that, the TV showed the landing.
I grew up in the New York suburbs of Long Island in the 50’s. Plenty of Sonic booms then. In elementary school our class took a field trip to Mitchell Air Force base! It’s gone now but what a fantastic experience for us kids. Later in the 60’s we moved a little bit North of NYC. I was surprised to see a Nike missile battery on one of the hills around the homes. It was there to defend against Russian bombers that might threaten NYC!
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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...
I love this video, only I wish they used the sound of an actual sonic boom. Real ones aren't one boom, but two or more. Fighters such as the F-15/16/18/35 make a Ba-Boom sound. Listen to a Space-X Falcon booster landing, and you hear three booms. I love hearing sonic booms in the Edawards AFB /Mojave area!
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.
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
The sonic boom of these war machines was meant to be acceptable, although as soon as the UK and France used supersonic speed for travelling civilians faster around the planet in their "Concorde", the USA declared it a "No-No". As their supersonic airliner (Boeing 2707) was not ready to compete ...
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.
"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.
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!
@@alexcarter8807Sounds a lot like jail or prison to me; pick up your box lunch then return to your cell and wait for the boom which would be the guard testing his weapon in the guard tower.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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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?
B-58 look extremely fast just sitting there on the tarmac! One of the most beautiful bombers ever made!
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.🇺🇸✈️
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.
Tall Man Five Five or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boom
The boom boom boom.
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.
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.
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...
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?
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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)
Was there ever a finer-looking aircraft than the B-58 Hustler? Ever?
Duck and Cover! Those were the days. I grew up in Massachusetts in the 60s and remember the sonic booms.
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.
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.
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.
Re sonic boom. Growing up in the 60's, sonic booms were common. FFWD to early 80's, when the first shuttle landed at Edwards, my dog was sitting in front of the TV. We were watching coverage of the landing. My dog stood up suddenly and barked like crazy. A few seconds later, we heard the boom (we were near Fresno area). A few minutes after that, the TV showed the landing.
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 grew up in the New York suburbs of Long Island in the 50’s. Plenty of Sonic booms then. In elementary school our class took a field trip to Mitchell Air Force base! It’s gone now but what a fantastic experience for us kids. Later in the 60’s we moved a little bit North of NYC. I was surprised to see a Nike missile battery on one of the hills around the homes. It was there to defend against Russian bombers that might threaten NYC!
Gotta admire Chet's punch-in on the opening line!
Living in El Paso 64 - 66, as a kid. I would hear sonic booms daily.
Summer of 1961 i spent living very close Carswell AFB/CONVAIR plant. Saw many B-58 and B-52 takeoffs..Impressive.
I was assigned to 64th Bomb Sqdn as Ops clerk in 1963. Trfr to Little Rock AFB with the 43rd Bomb Wing.
We called that boom the sound of freedom!
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.
I miss sonic booms…..used to be common and sparked my interest in aviation which became an important piece of my work related life.
24:41. The poor old fellow probably thought he was back at the Argonne for a moment...
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.
@6:30 More precisely, the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was born.
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...
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!
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
Dad was career af ,I heard these sonic booms every day that was at Amarillo Air Force Base
I love the song during the closing credits.
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?
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.
Nothing can bother you, if you have a strong powerful and majestic SAC.
SAC hasn't been around for decades.
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 ...
@John Montgomery True
"Excuse me, sir."
"Yes, captain. What is it?"
"Sir, is there any chance I might change my call sign to 'Tall Man Six Two'?"
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.
I attended Deerfield Academy. I wonder did the air force clear this bombing run with the headmaster, Mr. Boyden?
Alternate target was the missile complex at LaPuta.
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.
B-52 Aircraft Commander in 1971-1972. Alert target was 2 nukes to Moscow.
Still the most beautiful plane ever built. Just a perfect looking aircraft! OL J R :)
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.
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.
Used to hear the sonic boom quite often.
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.
Jet Blast the sound and smell of freedom!
Thank You!
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.
Beautiful aircraft!!
Lovin' the Star Trekesk music. Ah! The sixties!
I noticed that, too... this was produced in 1960, or so.
In case you don't know.
At 2:45 is a data link antenna.
That one should not have slipped through, I think.
Thank you ☺️
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.
1950s stealth hide. It behind a curtain ,and I know all the passwords now
Beautiful aircraft,named like my girlfriend, Hustler!
Sadly, these planes haven't been flying for 60 years.
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
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.
It was impressive seeing one up close. It looks mean. Like, suicide mission at the end of the world kind of mean.
Little did they know the BUFF would still be flying today.
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
Definitely a different time.
That's true very second!
But the music...
That is a good looking aerodoodle.
😂😂😂 @11:40 DSO Capt. William _ _ _ _ 😂😂😂 That's my dad. 👋 Hi DAD❗️😊
Awesome!... like a dart ✈️👍
I love this video, only I wish they used the sound of an actual sonic boom. Real ones aren't one boom, but two or more. Fighters such as the F-15/16/18/35 make a Ba-Boom sound. Listen to a Space-X Falcon booster landing, and you hear three booms. I love hearing sonic booms in the Edawards AFB /Mojave area!
15:01
Mach 2 at 40,000 ft.
How beautiful is that for 1958?
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.
No wonder we are all on anti-anxiety medication.
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
The sonic boom of these war machines was meant to be acceptable, although as soon as the UK and France used supersonic speed for travelling civilians faster around the planet in their "Concorde", the USA declared it a "No-No". As their supersonic airliner (Boeing 2707) was not ready to compete ...
Love the tactical sandwiches!
Tactical Wonder Bread lol
@alexcarter8807 it's strategically delicious!
At least the Missilers got their meals free.
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.
"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!
@@alexcarter8807Sounds a lot like jail or prison to me; pick up your box lunch then return to your cell and wait for the boom which would be the guard testing his weapon in the guard tower.
Mmmmm…..shiny metallic sexiness…ahh the frigid days of the old Cold War!
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.
17:10: Just loved those USAF boxed meals - ummmm, ummm!
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.
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.
This is the second video that tells the crews have to BUY THEIR OWN MEAL! Charlie Sierra GOLF FOXTROT.
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!!
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.
Yeah well, blather what you will, but the days depicted herein are infinitely preferable to 2020...