B 36 Hoodies
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Description: Convair's supersonic USAF Strategic Air Command intercontinental bomber, the B-58 Hustler. Designed just three years after the Bell X-1 and Charles "Chuck" Yeager broke the sound barrier, and first flown on November 11, 1956, the Hustler was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world. B-58 crews won five major aeronautical trophies shattering speed records.
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Description: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker is a long range nuclear bomber built by Convair of Fort Worth that was operated by the United States Air Force after World War II. The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built. It was in service between 1946 and the late 1950s, and was made famous in the John Wayne film Jet Pilot.
