Word: b58
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support, as the President said, on its jet tankers-but the U.S. now has only 30 such tankers operational, and is getting only four new ones a month under the Administration's slowdown; 2) no production contract for B-58s has yet been announced; and 3) the B58 was considered not as a successor to the long-range B-52 but to the B57 medium-range bomber...
...B58 HUSTLER BOMBER has performed so well in test flights that Air Force will speed up production of the four-jet plane that may replace Boeing's B-52. Air Force has 13 delta-wing, supersonic Hustlers on order from Convair, is about to sign contract for another 17, has approved plan to buy still more planes. Hustler's steep price (more than $10 million) will come down to $5,000,000 when full production starts...
...little, suggesting a cobra's hood. But even when it was standing still, it seemed to be moving, and when its engines opened wide, it snapped forward like a toy on a rubber cord and leaped into the air at a sharp angle. The plane was the new B58 Hustler, a bomber made by Convair...
Loophole. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, said the directive in fiscal 1958 could stop the purchase of all Convair B58 bombers and F106 jet fighters, halt the procurement of McDonnell's F-101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho...
General Dynamics built the first atomic submarines, Nautilus and Seawolf, produced the Air Force's F-IO2A all-weather interceptor and the B58 Hustler supersonic bomber. It is now developing the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile as well as commercial uses of atomic energy, one of Hopkins' greatest enthusiasms...