Castle Air Museum

Post by **quid21** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:39 pm

While on a road trip around California we stopped at Castle Air Museum.

Aside from other fantastic exhibits, they have a B-58 Hustler which is being rebuilt/restored. The two gentlemen were very friendly and allowed me to take some close up photos from inside the fence.

Post by **Amp** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:50 pm

Gotta love a Hustler!

Post by **eLaReF** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 6:20 pm

This is one of many places I keep missing on my few trips to CA (Chino, N Island, San Diego Museum are others)
Love the Hustler, having seen 80 of it's stablemates at MASDC in '74 before they were scrapped.

Post by **quid21** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:24 pm

It’s the first time I’ve seen one of those beauties. Apparently it’ll take a year or two for complete restoration.

Post by **graham luxton** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:58 am

Love the B-58, only a few of which visited the UK. One of those I did see was 61-2059 at Greenham Common in Oct'63 departing back to its base at Bunker Hill a few days after its record breaking flight from Kadena. This was the real `Greased Lightning` - 55-0666's an imposter!

Post by **quid21** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:31 am

Yeah they mentioned that they were going to realign it’s identity. With 666 it’s amazing it didn’t crash!!

Post by **paddyboy** » Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:27 pm

The B58 must have been a beast to fly

Awesome pics

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

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