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Image:NASAStations41880.jpg 300px ARTIST CONCEPT: Core module of a 12 man space station with three decks. This design by North American Rockwell for a space station would be placed first in Earth orbit and ultimately in orbit around another planet - ideally Mars. Category:Spacecraft

... the flight test activities, partly with respect to the flight test program that tested the B-58 to prove all of its characteristics to the Air Force. Then subsequently, as a part ... . Now, I went off on a tangent. Did that answer your— '''Rusnak:''' Yes. '''Carlton:''' The B-58, I think, was a great learning tool for something else that had a very strong ... , every system, and I've watched a lot of systems evolve through the years, the B-58, we told the Air Force—we've got this automated ground troubleshooting equipment, and then ...

... my five years, I spent almost five years of that time working on the Convair B-58 Hustler , which is a strategic nuclear bomber, very latest thing at that time, mach 2 ... and it exhibited some of the characteristics that I had grown up with on the B-58, which is a delta-wing aircraft. It’s a short-coupled control system. The elevons ... them go. Again, that’s a problem we had on the B-58, trying to teach the pilots to fly the B-58 at mach 2 with the yaw damper off. It was a ...

... . I guess it was in between Dyna-Soar and MOL times. But the Air Force B-58, I don’t know if you remember it, but it was built by General Dynamics ... before that, but you had to be subsonic to use it, I guess. Anyway, this B-58 would get out around Las Vegas Nevada and then come in supersonic over the Edwards ... was all set up. I would circle in the neighborhood of Daggett, California, and the B-58 would come, and as he would get in, and I would join up with him ...

... . Post, 10/18/63; N.Y. Herald Tribune, 10/18/63; DOD Release 1396-63)'' B-58 with USAF crew flew nonstop from Tokyo to London, complet­ing the 8,028-mi. flight in 8 hrs. 35 min. for an average speed of 938 mph. The B-58 was refueled in midair five times. Previous record of 17 hrs. 42 min. was set ... a Canberra at an average speed of 335.7 mph. Crew mem­bers on the B-58 were Maj. Sidney G. Kubesch, Capt. Gerald R. Williamson, and Maj. John O. Barrett. ''(Av ...

... Libryan giant wrestler who drew new strength every time he touched the ground. USAF supersonic B-58 Hustler jet bomber crashed on landing at Le Bourget, killing the pilot, Lt. Col. Charles ... from Torrejon Air Base, Spain, to take part in the air show. A U.S. B-58 had crashed at the International Air Show in 1961. ''(AP, Wash, Post, 6/16/65 ... the famous bombsight, died. Mr. Norden's device developed for USN was used by AAF B-17's and other bombers during World War (AP, NYT, 6/16/65, 43)'' June ...

USAF B-58 Hustler bomber claimed 3 transcontinental speed records after a Los Angeles-to-New York-to- ... at 50,000 ft. and at an average speed of 1,044.3 mph, the B-58 trailed a 40-mile-wide sonic boom along the ground in its wake. Crew was ...

Initial flight of Convair B-58 delta-winged Hustler, the first supersonic bomber, made at Fort Worth, Tex. B-58 incorporated the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA "wasp waist" or "coke bottle" shape.

... as an aerospace engineer, flight-test engineer on the first Mach-2 supersonic bomber, the B-58 as a flight-test engineer where I was responsible for doing some of the flight ... that. '''Grimm:''' But that applied for the same work on the U-2 and the B-57. Interestingly enough, after we did all these things and were a tremendous success, including using that side-looking radar in the nose of the B-57, we mapped all of Alaska. They are making a big deal out of this ...

... Release 63-125; UPI, NYT, 8/10/63)'' Mackay Trophy presented to crew of sec B-58 for record flight of Mar. 5, 1962, which established new Los Angeles-to-New York flight time of 2 hr., 58.7 sec. Administered by National Aero­nautic Association , trophy was presented by Under Secretary of ...

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