Historical Marker #2369 in McKinney remembers the tragic crash of an Air Force B-58 Hustler bomber on December 12, 1966, which killed its three-member crew. In the years following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were …

Compounding these exorbitant costs, the B-58 had a high accident rate; 26 B-58 aircraft were lost in accidents, or 22.4% of total production, and more than half of the losses occurred during flight tests.

2023年11月26日 · B-58 Hustler Accident Rate. As told by Peter E Davies in his book B-58 Hustler Units, the aircraft’s early safety record, with six major fatal accidents in its first 10,000 hrs of SAC service, improved markedly thereafter. However, the losses sustained in the early 1960s nevertheless resulted in the deaths of six crew members.

2019年3月21日 · Although an engineering marvel, the Hustler suffered from appalling accident rate, high maintenance costs, and an obsolete mission profile. It would remain in service for only a decade, a dead-end...

At 5:02 p.m. on November 7, 1959, a delta wing Convair B-58A Hustler supersonic bomber approached the small farming community of Duncan, Oklahoma, while on a southwesterly heading flying at 35,000 feet and twice the speed of sound.

2024年6月3日 · Major Eugene Moses, Navigator, 1st Lieutenant David F. Dickerson, Defensive Systems Officer, and Major Elmer E. “Gene” Murphy, Aircraft Commander, with Colonel James K. Johnson, stand in front of the Convair B-58, The Firefly, 11 May 1961. All three airmen were killed when their B-58 crashed at the Paris Air Show, 3 June 1961.

The 43rd BW received its first B-58 on March 15, 1960. On March 23, a test unit B-58A (55-0671) remained airborne for 18 hours 10 minutes while averaging an airspeed of 620 mph over 11,000 miles. This was apparently the longest-lasting single flight ever by a B-58. The 43rd BW received deliveries beginning in December of 1960.

2024年3月9日 · At the height of the Cold War, on the night of Dec. 12, 1966, the residents of McKinney were startled by the sound of an explosion. Many locals converged on this hill to find a large fiery crater, and the wreckage of an Air Force B-58. All three crew members perished. Official cause never released to public. Over

There were 116 B-58’s made. Twenty percent crashed. We will try to list information about the B-58, about the men who flew them, and some about Bunker Hill AFB, which was home to the 305th Bombing Wing. If you are a former crew member of the B-58 Hustler and want to contribute story(s) about B-58, it will be considered for the site.

B-58 Jet Crashes infield Digs Crater 30 Feet Deep. By CARL SCHWARTZ and ROGER SIMON DANVILLE ( Special ) — A multi-million dollar supersonic bomber crashed and exploded in a country field late Friday morning near here , seconds after its three occupants bailed to safety .