The B-58 Hustler: America's Cold War Nuclear Bomber Blunder
Some of the record winning aerospace trophies the B won were the Bleriot trophy, the Thompson trophy, the Mackay trophy, the Bendix trophy and the Harmon trophy. During the run-in the navigator, while watching the terrain below on radar, can make small corrections in heading with the tracking and flight control stick in his right hand, which acts through the autopilot. It used a delta wing, which was also employed by Convair fighters such as the F, with four General Electric J79 engines in pods under the wing. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The steerable nose gear has two tires; the two main gears roll on four non-frangible steel wheels, each bearing two in diameter tires inflated to p. The engines are remarkable for having variable-position inlet guide vanes and variable-position stator vanes in the first six stages of the compressor. This page adapted from: