Texas to California at 500' (agl) at m.92

[likeitfast55]

I love this plane!


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPgur_cUmA&sns=em[/ame]

[fastwhite99gt]

That was pretty cool, you don't hear much about it.

[90GT50]

Awesome.

[2011GT]

Cool vid. My fav bomber is the B1

[BlueCoupeRedVert]

Pretty cool!

[Strychnine]

As soon as I saw 'Convair' I knew it would be a Hustler. Definitely my one of my favorite planes. Kick ass video.

[Fern]

and thats the video of the day for me.

fuckin awesome.

[Chas_svo]

If any of your ever get a chance to tour the plant, the "Hall of Fame" is worth about an hour of your time. It has pics of all the planes, some famous pilots, awards, and etc. The Hustler is a cool plane, especially for its time.

[RWhite]

These planes use to fly over Austin doing simulated bombing runs for practice against Soviet cities. Supposedly, Austin was a close radar match to a certain Soviet city. I remember seeing them when I was at UT in the 60's when walking to school and all of a sudden a sonic boom cracked overhead. You looked up and there was a thin vapor trail going away in the distant. It became commonplace that most would not even look up, knowing it was a sonic boom. How times have changed!

I wonder if the plane on the video had the early versions of a Terrain Following Radar. TI designed a TFR for many early fighters and bombers. This is an interesting article of the early days of TI's first TFR, designed and built in Dallas in the North Building. It tells about the early struggles with this new technology and how the TI pioneer engineers wrestled with its early performance problems.

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/...58-terrain.htm

Thanks for the video!

[likeitfast55]

I fly 60's technology. Some upgrades,like GPS and Gen 2 EFIS. Still has pulleys and cables! No fancy fly-by wire in the S-80! I would have loved to have flown either the 58' or the BUFF(52).

My (by comparison, modern) office.

[helosailor]

The picture is kind of small, I was going to say DC-9, but I see in the file name that it's an MD-80. Man, that's hi-tech right there!

[68RR]

Scroll to the bottom to see the Hustler "SNOOPY"

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/B-52s_in_the_desert.htm

[likeitfast55]

The picture is kind of small, I was going to say DC-9, but I see in the file name that it's an MD-80. Man, that's hi-tech right there!

Yes Sailor my type rating says DC-9. MD-80 is just a modern variant of the 9.



as compared to the 787.

[JP135]

Excellent. Love the B58.

[helosailor]

Yes Sailor my type rating says DC-9. MD-80 is just a modern variant of the 9.

Oh, I know. I've spent many hours in the cockpit of the 9 (on the ground). I used to work for Northwest "We have the largest fleet of DC-9s in the world" Airlines.