Key Points and Summary on B-58 Hustler - The Convair B-58 Hustler, America's first Mach 2 supersonic bomber, was a revolutionary but deeply flawed Cold War weapon. -Born from a desire to outpace ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: The B-58 Hustler, produced by Convair in the 1950s, was the first supersonic bomber capable of exceeding Mach 2. Developed as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War, the ...

A Total Failure? The Convair B-58 Hustler was the world’s first supersonic bomber and the first to reach Mach 2 speeds. Developed in the 1950s for the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command during the ...

A B-58 Hustler bomber is moved off the Chanute Air Museum grounds Monday morning. It is the next-to-last plane to be disassembled and then reassembled elsewhere. Some of the planes to be scrapped at ...