Span: 9.75" Length: 16.75"

Price:  $249.95

B-58 Hustler Model Plane: A True Work of Art

Warplanes brings and introduces you a finely handcrafted B-58 Bomber airplane model made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our highly skilled master craftsmen painstakingly and passionately worked on the B58 Hustler scale model airplane's details, ensuring exactness and precision based on the original airplane.

The B58 Bomber model airplane's paint scheme and markings are extremely accurate and precise, depicting the true original B58 Hustler aircraft. Like all other airplane models, the B 58 Hustler replica comes complete with fuselage, wings and glass cockpit and other intricate parts. It also comes with a sturdy, durable base with a chrome steel support mounting rod or you can have our variable pitch wall mount accessory, allowing your B-58 Bomber scale model airplane to be displayed either hanging on the wall or the ceiling for an added effect. This top-quality B58 Hustler model plane will surely mesmerize anyone who receives this elegant desktop display as a gift.

B-58 Hustler Strategic Bomber History:

The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational jet bomber capable of Mach 2 supersonic flight and was developed for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command in the late 1950s.

The B-58 program started in February 1949. The B-58 design was the first "true" USAF supersonic bomber program. Its design was based on a delta wing with a leading-edge sweep of 60 degrees with four General Electric J79-GE-1 turbojet loading. It has a crew of three, the pilot, bombardier, navigator and defensive systems operator. The B-58 carries a single nuclear weapon in a streamlined MB-1C pod under the fuselage. The B-58 has a crew of three and has a maximum speed of Mach 2.1

The B 58 is extremely expensive and was reported that each B-58As costs much more than its weight in gold. It is a complex aircraft requiring considerable maintenance, requiring specialized equipment.

On January 16, 1970, the last B-58s in operational service retired and was replaced by the FB-111A. A total of 116 B-58s were produced; 30 trial aircraft and 86 production B-58A models. A number of B-58s were used for special trials of various kinds and several variants such as the B 58B and B-58C were proposed by Convair, but were never built.