Everything about the B58 was designed for speed: its narrow fuselage with the three crew members sitting in tandem, a delta wing, and surprisingly the lack of a bomb bay. Ordinance was carried in ...

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 ...

The B-58 was technically advanced for the late 1950s. Built to achieve high speeds and high altitudes, the B-58 featured a large delta wing with a 60-degree leading edge sweep. The wing was also ...

On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 11, 1958, the Gregg family was going about their business—kids playing in the yard, parents puttering around the house—when a malfunction in a B-47 flying ...