I was going to save this to watch later. Brilliant documentary. Did anyone else spot the reference to Red Dwarf? There's so much stuff in this video I never knew about the Hustler and the astro navigation system is mind-blowing, considering this was in the 1950s. Well done!
Thank you all for taking the time to stop by and check out my homage to the brilliant Hustler There is an issue with the J-79 jet engine audio, not quite sure what happened there, was fine during editing, must be something I missed. Anyway, gives you an idea how loud the engines were. I hope you enjoy the story, Please, leave a like if you could on the way out, really helps the channel.
Being faster isn't enough for a fighter to reliably intercept a bomber, you really need at least a 25% speed advantage. The reason for this is that the bomber isn't just going to fly in a straight line it's going to gently maneuver to throw off the intercept geometry. The MiG-25 is the only fighter that can reliably counter the B-58.
Assuming the bomber knows where the intercepters are early enough. And of course, if long range missiles make a distant intercept possible without full closure.
@@Eleolius Of course, however as long range missiles get better then the bombers get fitted with more capable radar, ESM and ECM systems, as happened with the B-52 during its life.
hey man just wanted to say this is a great video i can’t imagine all the work you put into it plus seeing all the comments you gave thought out replies to is really nice aswell. You gained a new sub for sure, hope to see you keep growing!
Thank you for subbing. Work wise, well let's just say that the missus was not too pleased I spent the entire holiday reading up on the Hustler. :-) Joe
I did read that just after Yeager broke the sound barrier, the designer, Robert Widmer, asked his boss if he could start work on a supersonic bomber, but he refused, so he designed it in his spare time!
great video.. thanks . grew up as a kid in a household of aircraft manufacturers dinner table chat occasionally centered round dead test pilots . i even had a part from one fatal wreck... it was in my collection along with brass shells for 20 mm cannons and starting jet engines.. now i'm old i just see waste.. sorry but yourr perspective alters as you get older.. but it was a truly awesome machine.
Thank you very much, I get your point regarding changing of perspectives. As much as we all love these machines, we must always keep in mind the reasons they were created, and that is to end life, even the beautiful Spitfire is essentially a platform to carry guns to end life. Sobering when i think about it.
Great video of a beautiful and underappreciated aircraft. Sadly, with the short range and the razor thin flight envelope of the B-58 it was doomed from the start. Tech was just moving so fast in those days the F-111 was less than a decade away (first flight 1962) and was a good enough aircraft to serve until almost 2011 (Dec 2010). Not taking away from the B-58 which for its era was an absolute monster in the performance realm.
The howl came from the Variable Stator Vanes located in front of the first set of rotating blades at the front of the compressor. The variable pitch blades were necessary because with a compressor that has that many stages of compression, the air becomes unstable in it's last few stages at high RPM.
This is why I love doing this, no matter how much I look around for the answers online, books, journals, I can always rely on you guys to have the answers. Love it. :-) Joe
To me, the B-58 was the most beautiful bomber ever built. Still one of my all-time favorites of any planes. 👍 BTW, excellent vid…subscribed and liked ! 😉👌
JOE!! Congratulations on an engaging and thoroughly interesting video! I had hoped for long that one day I would find a watchable deep dive video on this futuristic bomber. All the other content around seems to be either too short and shallow or old and uninteresting, like the films made in its era. Thank you!
Hello there, thank you very much. More long form deep dive videos on the way. I have a list of requests in my inbox at the moment. I will need to stop watching cat videos and get on with it........but they are sooooo cute :-) jOE
Yeap, he did indeed, and if you know that and then listen to John Denver's songs "Leaving on a Jet plane" makes more sense. I think that was a song about not knowing where he truly belonged. Anyway, here is an ear worm, for you "Take Me Home Country Roads" :-) Joe
For sure, I can never decide if she resembles a hornet, wasp, praying mantis or speeding rabbit, (I love the name "Rapid Rabbit" given to one of the Hustlers) and if you noticed in the video before the start of the chapter "High Bars" there was called "Little Joe". :- ) Joe
Yes, you are right, I just read my script again, I think I could have worded that a little clearer, it kind of sounds like the war (Shooting war) ended in '46
The B=47, it should be noted, had an inherent design flaw, wherein the wings could snap off near the root. Given the high risk task allocated to this aircraft, perhaps it is remarkable that more were not lost.
Just about any aircraft you can name will snap it's wings off if mishandled, when the early P51B's were starting their work up in England they were snapping their wings off across the gun access doors at such an alarming rate they were all grounded until North American Aviation designed a fix that was incorporated in the assembly line and retrofit kits were rushed to England and had to be installed in every one before they were allowed to fly. Even after a wing redesign for the P51D they still would snap wings off which is exactly how the legendary Hub Zempke, leader of the 56th Fighter Group, the most successful USAAF fighter group in Europe wound up in a POW camp, the 56th famously flew P47's exclusively and refused to turn their's in to switch over to the P51, Gen Doolittle considered Zempke his best fighter group leader and sent him on a temporary assignment to straighten out a newly formed P51 unit that was tagged with being a "hard luck" outfit, while leading from the front which was Zempke's style they got into a fight with some German fighter's, after getting one on his tail Zempke attempted a trick he'd pulled off many times in P47's where he'd duck into a cloud and through a series of high G maneuvers would typically emerge from it having reversed his position on his pursuer, but unfortunately the wings of the P51 wasn't up to it and his snapped off forcing him to bail out over German territory and wind up as a POW for the last months of the war. Japanese Zeros despite having a reputation for being maneuverable also had notoriously fragile wings that could snap off, that's exactly how the US Navy pilot called "Swede" shot down 3 of them in a dogfight flying an SBD dive bomber, he knew it being a dive bomber had wings rated to a higher G rating than the Zero so he just kept forcing them to turn in the horizontal, none of them could match his turns and by staying inside of them he kept forcing them one at a time into head on passes eventually shooting down all 3.
It was at the time the only way they could achieve the speeds they did with the engine and nukes they had. But then as the 60's wore on, the nukes did get smaller, so the pod was sort of redundant, however, by that time it would have been almost impossible to re engineer the B-58.
This was one of my earliest model kit builds, either Revell or Monogram around 1962. Too advanced for a child of ny age but my father did most of the work as he 'helped' me. The B-58 looked like alien technology compared to contemporary aircraft except maybe the F-104 Starfighter.
Lucky you, I drove my parents mad with my constant demands for models. Nothing better than spending time with the old man building models. I have built loads of models with my son, or to be more accurate, I have built lots of models while he watched.....i am a terrible parent :-) Joe
Well I KNOW the B-58 could be intercepted by the Mig-25 but that plane was a decade later. Mach 1.3 is fast, but not as fast as most fighters they had a decade or so later.
I’m sad that I didn’t know about the B-58 until today, but at least I got a really in-depth documentary about it. I hope it gets added to War Thunder or something.
@@AviationRepublicGround battles have nukes, so I don’t see why not. Also, do you think you could make a video on the F-8 Crusader? If you don’t want to, that’s okay.
Honestly, it's not artificial, it might sound like that since during editing I remove certain bits like, inhaling, breathing, tongue clicks or lips smacks. I will leave all the human sounds in for the next video.
@@AviationRepublic I was trying hard to try to "geolocate" your "accent" and your filtering "normal" human sounds was what was throwing me off. Thanks for replying I look forward to your next vid..... P.S. The most interesting accent I ever heard was a Scottish born male who spent his first 10 years there followed by life in South Africa for his teen years, Canada for his 20's Australia for his 30s ...... and living in the USA for the last 20 years....
I think there are ads every 10 to 15 minutes or so. I will take a look. Thanks for bring it to my attention, RU-vid seem to ignore ad placements and do what they like.
At 25:09, that rate of climb can't be right. 38,650 ft/min? Capable at achieving 40,000 ft by the end of the runway? Impressive is one thing, but astronomical is another.
Why would it be measured from a standing stop? I'm unaware of any aircraft ever that were rated that way, they're rated starting from full speed level flight, and yea, you can bet that something traveling at mach 1 sea level will hit 38,650 ft in one minute.
The B58 was before artificial stabilization. The CG had to be ahead of 25% of the mean chord. Fuel was shuttled around to do so. This is common to the Delta platform planes like the Concorde, and Vulcan. But it’s a chore you have to stay atop off. If a plane is in an uncoordinated turn the fuel will run to the down side. Tanks are baffled to damp this, but if the turn is sustained enough fuel weight might be shifted to overwhelm the controls. B58 pilots were excellent and unlikely flew uncoordinated unless an engine failed. D
Part of what made the Soviets hesitate to attack was a Mach 2 Bomber the appearance of which always put me in mind of an Angry, Winged, Venomous Insect. The Hustler always reminded me of that. Another was the Look on the face of General Curtis LeMay. I felt Safe.
But that is not the fault of the plane we see here, but due to unreliable fuel pumps for cg and a lack of fly by wire. All steep delta wings fly kinda ugly, but a gyro + fast electronic can make it feel like a straight wing plane.
@@ArneChristianRosenfeldt You don't need FBW just because you have a delta wing. The limiting characteristic of the delta is the high induced drag at the high angles of attack necessary for approach and landing. FBW doesn't give you more thrust or less drag.
