[alfa6]

The Friday Night Flyby is being posted from work tonight. Sorry i don't have my list of the ususal suspects with me so My apologies to those who I did not ping.DANG CRS

Tonight we have the Convair B-58 Hustler, as a kid in ST. Louis in the late 60's they were flying B-58s over the city doing sonic boom testing as I recall. Never got to see one in person but I did get some nice pics this week.

Have to run back to work, may or may not be back later. Y'all have a great weekend and keep smilin, folks will wonder what you are up to :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Soaring Feather]

WOO HOO alaf6! Thanks for the great pics. Don't work to heard ya hear?

[El Gran Salseron]

As I recall the B-58's life span wasn't very long because it could carry only nuke weapons and could not carry conventional bombs or wing-mounted weaponry.

Thanks for the pics. :-)

[EGPWS]

Thanks alfa6 for you reminded me via a most impressive pictorial that I have to take my BP med's! : )

Great pic's of the "Hustler" my FRiend!

[luvie]

Wow...very kewl plane....thanks so much for posting this awesome looking plane. And I DO want to be on your ping list! :o)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, alfa, for the Friday Night Flyby....I'm posting from work too. Great planes!!

[MilspecRob]

Dang, the B-58 is a great looking aircraft. Everything about it was advanced even the silly 20mm tail gun mounting. I never got to see one in person either, but I remember the booms! As I recall it was the 2nd Tue of the month in the afternoon but I could be wrong. I remember,as a kid also, "stopping the game" to wait for the boom. Same time , every time, within minutes.

Thanks for the great pics! And hello to every body else on the Canteen tonight! tonight

[Professional Engineer]

The very first model plane I built was one of these. I also have a picture I took of one at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.