Rick Clark
MFE

Yeah we had a guy whose nickname was "Wingtip" Wright who supposedly
dinged
a wing tip of a B-58. We had both a Charles R. Wright and a John C.
Wright.

I cannot recall the gentleman's first name. He retired as an LTC, probably
in the very early seventies; went onto a second career as a mathmatics
teacher. He was my ninth grade geometry teacher back in the 75-76
timeframe.
ISTR he said he liked flying the B-58, and I remember he was a
particularly
religious gent. Interestingly, we had a second teacher at our school who
was
also a retired SAC vet; B/N on B-47's, survived one crash (either landing
or
T/O, can't recall which) and spent about a year convalescing--used to
laugh
about how his buddies used to collect him and wheel him out to the
flightline and cram his rearend into an aircraft periodically so he could
still collect his flight pay while he was doing so.

I guess you don't recall the B-47 guy either? I went from instructing
T-33s in Pilot Training to the front seat of a B-47 while still a 1st Lt.
Hunter AFB at Savannah, Ga. Then to the left seat of (then) brand new
B-52Hs at Minot (ugh) ND. It was sort of a step sideways to go from the
B-52H with flight directors, terrain avoidance radar, etc to the B-58
Hustler. While very advanced in the airframe and engine areas it was rather
primitive in cockpit devices. Pretty good autopilot/autothrottles, though.
Plus there was only room for one pilot so you got every takeoff and landing
plus no one could look over your shoulder. We had several TB-58s which was
modified to have an instructor pilot position behind the pilot and did not
carry a navigator, just the pilots and a DSO.

I retired as a LtCol also on 1-1-72. Later got on with Air California and
made Captain in Boeing 737s is just over 2 years (deregulation expansion)
and American Airlines bought Air Cal 9 years later and I flew the MD-80, and
Boeings 757/767 for AA until I got booted out at age 60 in '93 (mandatory
retirement). Since then I've taught ground school and flight simulator in
the MD-80 at FSI/FSB/Boeing Alteon at Long Beach part time.

B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/