I heard they were a maintenance nightmare plus the mission changed. Maybe one of our USAF brethren can enlighten us? It was one HELL of a speedster though!
There used to be a complete B58 in an aircraft park just outside the gate to what was Carswell AFB in FT Worth Tx. There was a B36 too along with several other planes. Don't know it it is still there or not.
My uncle Jim Hejl was lead engineer on the B58 and spent almost his entire career working on it. Closed his working days out on the TFX. At the time he was working the project was hush hush so he never could say much about the Hustler. He did tell me that it could and did in a few instances partially melt the leading edge of the wings and the pilots had to be carefull not to go as fast as it could. True or not I don't know. Just what Unk Jimmy said.
