Any old school jet guys out there? B-58 Hustler test flight wreck.?

If it was during flight test, NASA's Dryden center at Edwards may have information..

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/home/index.html

B-58 Crashes

It was a test bed. Yes production B58s didn't have FBW-but that's not what he's talking about here. FBW technology was conceived in the late 1960's so a B58 kind of makes sense-though it's notorious habit of departed controlled flight when it lost an engine makes one wonder why that aircraft.

Check the NTSB and FAA archives-it wasn't a military test flight so they should have data on it.

The B58 wasn't fly by wire.

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*********To next answer, the B58 was complex enough as it is. I have studied them pretty well (don't know everything though!) but have never ever heard of the Hustler being converted to FBW. The early AF experiments on FBW were done with a B47, which did not crash, it's in the AF Museum at Wright-Patt.***********

I've been browsing the web more than two hours today seeking the answer to the same question, but I haven't found a more interesting discussion like this. It is pretty worth enough for me.

well 22.4% percent of all b-58s built were lost to accidents so he's not alone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-58_Hustler#Operatio...

Here is a list of B58 crashes and the crew:

55-669

10-27-59 7 miles W of Hattiesburg, MS; accident cause was loss of control during normal flight; Convair pilot was Everett L. Wheeler (survived); Convair flight engineer Michael F. Keller (survived); Convair flight engineer Harry N. Blosser (fatal).

55-664

11-7-59 25 miles SE of Lawton, OK; accident cause not established; test flight simulating outboard engine failure at Mach 2; Convair pilot Raymond Fitzgerald (fatal); Convair flight engineer Donald A. Siedhof (fatal); no 3rd crew member.

55-667

6-4-60 26 miles SE Lubbock, TX; accident cause was loss of control and aircraft bailout during supersonic flight; Convair pilot Jack L. Baldridge (fatal); Convair flight engineer Hugh D. Coleman (fatal); Convair flight engineer Charles T. Jones (fatal).

58-1008 15 YB/RB-58A n/a

Accepted and delivered to the 6592nd TS for pod and suitability testing during 10/58; destroyed 12/16/58 -- (this was apparently the first B-58 accident) 38 n. miles NNE of Canon AFB, NM; accident cause was loss of control during normal flight when auto trim and ratio changer were rendered inoperative due to an electrical system failure; Air Force pilot Maj. Richard Smith (fatal); AF Nav/bombardier Lt. Col. George Gradel (survived); AF DSO Capt. Daniel Holland (survived).

58-1012

5-14-59 at Carswell AFB, Convair facility; accident cause was fuel leak and accidental ignition. Two Convair ground support people were killed.

58-1016 23 YB/RB-58A n/a

Eventually modernized/upgraded to operational aircraft for SAC; assigned to 43rd BW; destroyed on 5/20/65 -- near Little Rock AFB, AR; cause was a hard landing; AF pilot Capt. Ralph Semann (survived); AF Nav/bombardier Capt. Steve Kichler, Jr. (fatal); AF DSO 1st Lt. Ronald Smetek (survived).

58-1017 24 YB/RB-58A n/a

Assigned to 43rd BW; destroyed on 9/16/59 -- at Carswell AFB, TX; cause was tire failure during takeoff roll and aborted takeoff; AF pilot Maj. Kenneth Lewis (survived); AF Nav/bombardier Maj. Willis Edgecomb (fatal); AF DSO Capt. Lee Barnett (fatal).

58-1020 27 YB/RB-58A n/a

Eventually modernized/upgraded to operational aircraft for SAC; assigned to 43rd BW; destroyed 12/27/61 -- 4.3 n. miles NE of Camp Cole, MO.; cause of accident was engine flameout due to ruptured fuel manifold during normal flight; AF pilot Capt. Clarence Montgomery (survived); AF Nav/bombardier Capt. Louis Hughes (survived); AF DSO was Capt. John Roddy (survived).

58-1023

4-22-60 29 58-mile NW Ogden, UT; accident cause was loss of flight control during normal flight due to mach/airspeed data system failure; Convair pilot Ray E. Tenhoff (fatal); Convair test engineer Walter Simon (fatal); Convair test engineer Kenneth G. Timpson (survived).

59-2437

7-16-68 Little Rock AFB, AR; accident cause was right hand main landing gear damage on takeoff with gear collapse on landing; AF Pilot Maj George R. Tate (survived); AF Nav/bombardier Capt Ray G. Walters (survived); AF DSO Capt Francis Mosson (survived).

59-2443 46 B-58A Bye Bye Birdie

Assigned to 43rd BW; destroyed 6/15/65 -- at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France; accident cause was undershooting during final approach to runway; AF pilot Lt. Col. Charles Tubbs (fatal), AF Nav/Bombardier Maj. Harold Covington (survived), AF DSO Maj. Vincent Karaba (survived).

59-2447 50 B-58A Rapid Rabbit

Assigned to 43rd BW; destroyed 2/15/62 -- 38 miles E. of Lawton OK.; accident cause was loss of aircraft control due to Mach and airspeed system malfunction during normal flight; AF pilot Maj. John Irving (survived); AF Nav/Bombardier Capt. John Fuller (survived); AF DSO Capt. Donald Avallon (survived). [SR-71 aficionados will recall that one of the Blackbirds was also nicknamed Rapid Rabbit and sported a 'bunny head' on the tail.]

59-2451 54 B-58A The Firefly

Used on 5/10/61 to set the world speed records over a 669.438 mile closed course (average speed 1,302.048 mph); on 5/26/61 set New York to Paris speed record of 3 hours 19 minutes 51 seconds at an average speed of 1,089.36 mph; crew awarded the Mackay Trophy on 5/13/62; destroyed 6/3/61 -- 5 nautical miles ENE of Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France; accident cause was attempted low-altitude aerobatic flight; AF pilot Maj. Elmer Murphy (fatal), AF Nav/Bombardier Maj. Eugene Moses (fatal), AF DSO 1st Lt. David Dickerson (fatal).

59-2454

2-23-67 Little Rock AFB, AR; accident cause was structural failure during taxi; AF pilot Lt Col Bruce A Ellis (survived); AF Nav/Bombardier Captain Robert A. Hendrickson (survived); AF DSO Capt Arlan W. Rohl (survived). Note: this aircraft was repaired and returned to service.

59-2459 62 B-58A n/a

Assigned to 43rd BW; destroyed 3/5/62 -- at Carswell AFB, TX; accident cause was mechanical failure of the flight control system; AF pilot Capt. Robert Harter (fatal), AF Nav/Bombardier Capt. Jack Jones (fatal), AF DSO 1st Lt. James McKenzie (fatal).

59-2462 65 B-58A n/a

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