At the same time, he was enjoying the simple reliability built into the old aircraft.
It climbed 15% faster and had nearly twice the range than the older aircraft.
It is intended to replace older aircraft in a similar size range.
He noted that the industry would replace 2,600 older aircraft by the year 2000, at a price of $130 billion.
The old aircraft shook itself like a dog and plowed on through the night.
This is the oldest remaining aircraft and the fourth B-58 built.
They also had a large number of older aircraft in storage.
Any of their old aircraft could carry its own weight in bombs.
I stared at the company logo on the tail of the old aircraft.
Being fairly old aircraft at that point, these were withdrawn from active service by 1983.