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Micah Marsh (FlyFightWin1947)
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B-58A Hustler 61-2059, "Greased Lightning"

Scale:
1:72
Status:
Ideas
Started:
July 2, 2018

16 October 1963: Operation Greased Lightning. Major Sidney J. Kubesch, Major John Barrett and Captain Gerard Williamson flew from Tokyo, Japan, to London England, non-stop, in 8 hours, 35 minutes, 20.4 seconds. Their airplane was a Convair B-58A-20-CF Hustler, serial number 61-2059, named Greased Lightning. It was assigned to the 305th Bombardment Wing, 19th Air Division, at Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana.

Five inflight refuelings were required to complete the flight. The bomber had to slow from its supersonic cruise to rendezvous with the tankers. The B-58’s average speed was 692.71 miles per hour (1,114.81 kilometers per hour). The speed from Tokyo to Anchorage, Alaska was 3 hours, 9 minutes, 42 seconds at an average 1,093.4 miles per hour (1,759.7 kilometers per hour); and speed from Anchorage to London, 5 hours, 24 minutes, 54 seconds at 826.9 miles per hour (1.330.8 kilometers per hour).

Greased Lightning‘s speed record still stands.

Convair B-58A-20 CF 61-2059 is in the collection of the Strategic Air and Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska.

Project inventory

Full kits
1142
B-58 Hustler
Italeri 1:72
1142 2019 New decals
Detail and Conversion sets
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Photoalbums

6 images
B-58A Hustler 61-2059, "Greased Lightning"View album, image #1
1:72
1:72 Convair B-58 Hustler - Pitot Tube (Master AM-72-061)1:72 B-58 Hustler (Italeri 1142)

Part of my Collections

Strategic Air Command (SAC)
Ideas 15×In progress 1×Completed 1×Queued 1×
Strategic Air Command Museum
Ideas 8×Completed 1×
US Air Force
Ideas 28×In progress 1×Completed 4×Queued 1×

Comments

2 July 2018, 04:25

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