LS Plastic Model Military Aircrafts Collection

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Hobbycraft B-58A 1/144 Scale

The Boeing B-47 and its bigger brother, the B-52 Stratofortress, developed in the early years after World War II, represented the application of jet power to conventional bombing concepts of the day. Still traveling at subsonic speeds, the two big Boeings were intended to penetrate enemy air space at great altitudes, and were originally designed to carry conventional bombs. The supersonic B-58 Hustler, on the other hand, derived from a new concept developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s--one which took into account the greatly increased capability of ground defenses, including radar tracking and ground-to-air missiles.

Model Kit Review:
http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/viet/nixb58.htm

Other information:
http://www.aviation-history.com/convair/b58.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-58_Hustler
http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avb58.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mvburen/b-58/1b.htm

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