It's not ugly, it looks cool.

For whatever reason it seems the narrator has had some issues with the British.

Very, very good!

Really outstanding job of detailing this weapons system.

Just FYI, Strategic Air Command bases were not pronounced es ey see (the letters) but "sack" as in McConnell air force base is a SAC (pronounced sack) base.

My most prized model as a child was the hustler. It had plastic "flames" coming out of the engines. As a young USAF officer, I served as a Titan II launch officer, 74-79.

Anyway, great video, best I've seen on the 58 - nice work! :)

An absolutely gorgeous-looking, gazelle of an aircraft but I think the pod system was probably it's Achille's heel. Overly complex and limiting. The lack of an internal bomb bay on a designed from-the-ground-up bomber is always going to raise questions.

The UK has always had ultra badass fighter aircraft, but our successive commie governments always cancelled the programmes. Anybody NOTICING anything here?

This tanker literally took more ordinance than a fucking battleship to sink.

Send those flying Machines to the Philippines❤😊

Part 2?

Did they ever build one of those 4/12 inch aircraft cannon?

Buccaneers in Gibraltar 1992, I was on a small sailing boat moored near the end of the runway. They would take off and roll out beside us waving well below mast height

Pretty good video. As a SAC-trained killer, I can assure you, that nobody EVER spelled out the acronym... we said "sack" as in what testicles are carried in. The B-58 was retired before I served. I worked on many other aircraft, but always admired the B-58 as a concept.

I dont know why but I always thought the Corsair was a bad ass fighter

why edit the thumbnail like that instead of just using the original frame of the buc flying low

My Dad worked for Convair 50s thru 70s

Another great US aircraft powered by a British engine (TF-41= Upgraded RR Spey turbofan) like the Merlin Mustangs, the P&W J-42 and 48 (RR Nene and Tay) in the Cougar/Panther series, the Armstrong Siddely Sapphire (Wright J-65) in the B-57 Canberra and the Skyhawk , and of course the incomparable RR Pegasus Harrier. Good partnerships make great aircraft.

My hunch is that the B-1A program shifted money away from the B-58 operating & upgrade budget. Was it a case of the Bomber Mafia wanting the next gen hardware that they were willing to risk the gap years without a supersonic bomber?

Why would Americans want to shoot down UK aircraft, Skippy ? Preposterous. Phony thumbnail too.

Blackburn made so many crap aircraft. Somehow they made a good one here.

Another freekin masterpiece Sir. Perfectly poised. Thanks from NZ

Pretty cold how they covered the Paris Air Show back in the day.

Well done video... I learned something today.

The A7 is the F8’s ugly little step brother

po'ta'mack? pah'toh'mac. carry on.

..Anyone not from the Christian Race is from the Tree of good and evil...

I wonder what the enemies opinion of these Navy strikes were. They never had any such capability.

Well researched, great story!

Ah…the good old SLUF…

The J79 powered a few 1+mach airframes F4, A5, B58, F104 are the ones brought to my mind

122,147, 83 and USS Independence, IWT, flight deck troubkleshooter, slot checker, final checker, tire qualed, 3500psi nit cart, from J boxes to ASCUs. Thought about a tatoo😊🫡. 21+ years of SLUFAMANIA. Most of the history in this post was either my duty sta or in company with danger Danger, sinking Sara Chucky V, Forrest Fire, Connie, even saw Bonnie Dick before scrap😏 A7 sea stories beau coup

That accident on the Independence happened just before I reported on board

McNamara and his Wizz kids tied our guys hands around their balls and told them to fight. The US could have won that war in a year if they were allowed to. Instead they just got 57000 guys killed for nothing

I always thought it was handsome

Nice work, but one nit-pick at 57.42 FLIR is Forward Looking Infra Red (I was an Air Comms bloke in the R.A.F)

BTW: Something in your story reminded me of this tidbit of supersonic trivia. The first commercial aircraft to go supersonic (on purpose), was the Rolls Royce Conway powered Douglas DC--8/43. owned and operated by Canadian Pacific Airlines. I don't know exactly how it was arranged for the testing to take place, but shortly after the aircraft entered service with CP, it was sent back to Douglas specifically for the purpose of doing a Mach run. The flight was flown at Edwards AFB in 1961 by Douglas, test pilots, There was a brass plaque in the cockpit on the bulkhead near the inside of the entry door. Douglas, had apparently signed a contract with CP, guaranteeing a certain minimum range performance, and the aircraft CP purchased, did not meet the specification, which forced Douglas to redesign the leading edge. After leafing the air force in 1973, I started with CP on the DC-8, and always got a kick to think I was still flying supersonic capable aircraft.

My compliments on the effort you put into this video. In 1971 or 72, while on my way to Hamilton AFB, I remember stopping in at Davis Monthan AFB for fuel. The pilot flying the other aircraft in our formation, had heard from a friend that a large number of the B-58s had been sent to Davis Monthan to be scrapped. While our aircraft were being refueled, we commandeered a ride over to the boneyard to have a look, and what a sorry sight it was to see over 50 of those beautiful aircraft all lined up waiting for the axe to fall. I was told that the moaning sound the J-79 engines made, was because of the design of either the inlet compressor or the afterburner.. I never heard the noise from the B-58, but I am quite familiar with the moaning sound the F-104 made, while taxiing when the throttle was advanced, and hearing distinctive moan of the aircraft in flight when it they were in the traffic pattern. You didn't hear the sound in the cockpit in flight. .

I worked on these and the A-10 at Davis-Monthan. We turned the last of our A-7D's over to the AZ ANG in 1979.