The Hustler - b58 17.jpg (1/1)

How terrible sad...
When I was in Tucson even on the bus tour the eeriness of the place was
striking... Even sadder was the almost cavalier way in which "chunks" of
aircraft where scattered about the scrappers yards... Despite that strange
feeling of sadness that the place seems to evoke I am certainly going to
return to it. Perhaps the next time I will be a little perhaps more daring
and adventurous in my explorations. I definitely would like to do an aerial
photo shoot of the place...

Andrew-S



"Bob Harrington" wrote in message
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"Andrew-S" I-Still-Hate-Spammers@Sorry-I had-to-leave-for-bit.com
wrote in :

When I went to Tucson a couple of year ago, I was amazed that I didn't
any of these in the Boneyards. There was several aircraft that where
a little older. But apart from the one at the Pima there wasn't any
B58 Hustlers. I suppose with all that high quality non space age
metal the B58 was a good target for melting and scrapping. As such
the scrappers must have managed to do their evil deeds 20 years
earlier... In fairness the Hustler was from an era when it was more
fashionable to scrap it and melt it than preserve it... Personally it
was always one of my Favorites from that era. To me it always looked
mean and fast, yet with all those streamlined polished surfaces also
strangely elegant.

There were a small number at MASDC when I visited in the late '70s, but
understand they disappeared shortly thereafter.

Bob ^,,^