Word: b58
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stroke the Pentagon ordered the closing, consolidation or cutting back of yet another 149 bases,* and disclosed a "realignment" of strategic forces that will scrap about two-thirds of the present big bomber fleet by 1971. All of the 80 supersonic B58 Hustlers will go. Some 350 older-model B-52 Stratofortresses will also be phased out, leaving the Strategic Air Command with only 255 of its lumbering eight-engined giants. By then, the U.S. arsenal of land-and sea-based long-range nuclear missiles will have grown from...
...more than 80 types of aircraft famed in military aviation. The winged exhibits, designed by Herb Rosenthal & Associates, sit on various levels more like discoveries than displays. The sparrowlike Spads of the Lafayette Escadrille will be shaded under Roche's giant hangar along with the B-52, B58 and the advanced Lockheed...
General Dynamics cried that if it lost out on the TFX, it would have to lay off 5,000 workers at its sprawling Fort Worth plant, where B58 bomber production was phased out one month ago. Boeing claimed that it might have to close its Wichita plant, where B-52 production also was halted last month. Politicians from both areas naturally took a lively interest in the matter...
...quit building manned bombers. In Fort Worth, Texas, the Air Force recently took delivery of the last of 100 Convair B58 Hustler supersonic bombers it had ordered. Two days before, the last of 744 B-52H strategic bombers was turned over to the U.S.A.F. in Wichita, Kans., by Boeing. North American's 2,000-m.p.h. Valkyrie, once designated the B-70, is still under development, but its classification has been changed from bomber to ''reconnaissance-strike" plane...
...biggest boom yet of the supersonic age hit only last week, when a four-jet B58 Hustler streaked nonstop from Los Angeles to New York and back in a record-smashing 4 hr. 42 min., at an overall average of 1,044.3 m.p.h...