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The San Antonio senator introduced an amendment to restrict online sales of assault weapons, writes Gilbert Garcia.

The B-58 was one among several tributes to the Air Force’s post-war commitment to the strategic bomber.

America's B-58 Hustler Bomber Was a Work of Art (and Totally Useless) In use for only a decade, the bomber was incredibly hard to fly and had an excessively high accident rate. Here's What You Need to Know: This Cold War bomber was beautiful, but pointless. In an era of fantastic aircraft, the B-58 Hustler was one of the most visually striking warplanes ever to fly. Its delta wing, giant engines, and remarkable performance gave rise to the myth that pilots could literally tear the wings off the bomber if they flew it too fast. That wasn’t true, but the B-58 was nevertheless a difficult p...

Convair’s delta-wing Hustler was in some respects a fantastic aircraft.

B-58 Hustler: The Supersonic Bomber with One Really Careless Flaw The speed of the aircraft made it difficult for an enemy fighter to catch the B-58, but any type of catastrophic airframe or system failure proved nearly fatal for the crew. Designed to fly at high altitudes and at supersonic speeds, the United States Air Force's Convair B-58 Hustler was actually the first operational bomber capable of Mach 2 flights. The B-58 was developed in the 1950s for the Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC), and relied on speed as its primary defense. The thinking at the time was that with an aircraft...