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General Jimmy Stewart walks you through the B-58 Hustler's virtues and reviews the many records she claimed in this memorable film. A pilot once said of the Convair B-58, “She looked like she was breaking the sound barrier just sitting on the tarmac.“ At Mach 2 , the B-58 wasn't just one of the fastest bombers of her day, she was one of the fastest military planes period.. A first cousin of the hot “century series“ of fighters, the delta winged “Hustler' medium bomber combined outstanding performance with a striking, javelin-like profile that spawned a mystique that survives to this day. In the early1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in just two years the B-58 captured 14 speed and performance records, many previously held by Soviet aircraft. She was not only capable of extended 700 mph on-the deck missions at 500 feet (then unheard of for a bomber and without the advantages of today's ground hugging radar or fly-by-wire) she also set altitude and climb records. The B-58 was capable of doing whatever was necessary to invade enemy air space. As legendary star and war hero Jimmy Stewart says in this film, she was a lot more than a “hot rod“ made for setting records, she was a lethal weapon of war -- and an outstandingly handsome aircraft. I had a B-58 model when I was a kid and never forgot it. The surviving copy of this film had lots of scratches & heavy color shifts, so I spent more than a 2 weeks digitally restoring it. Zeno, Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In Don't miss our B-58 DVDs with 10 more B-58 videos & complete pilot's manuals Visit our aviation DVD store at for the World's largest selection of World War 2 & vintage jet aircraft aviation videos. We have 100s of films in our library. We have licensed footage to major TV networks and cable channels. For more info see Zeno
