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Flight Simulation

Of course, the only way to fly the B-58 Hustler today is to use a flight simulator. It's not as thrilling as the real thing, but you are almost certain to live to tell the tale, which has its advantages! The B-58 flies like any other high performance aircraft in Microsoft FSX with one major exception: it is essential that you control your speed on final approach. If you are too fast, you will bounce and suffer pilot induced oscillation (PIO). If you are too slow, you will promptly stall and will not have enough altitude to recover. It takes some practice but is a lot of fun once you have mastered it. I also typically adjust my viewing position to bring my view slightly to the left of the windshield center post, as it was in the actual airplane.

Glowing Heat announces B-58 simulator for Microsoft FSX

Images from the Glowing Heat website

MARCH 2014 - David Bushell writes to say he has parted company with Alphasim/Virtavia, and has now set up his own website www.glowingheat.co.uk with product pages for the Hustler and other interesting aircraft you can purchase, download, and fly. The Hustler for FSX has been completed and released in full FSX native glory! We were consulted on the earlier versions of what became this product and according to some who had flown the actual B-58 this is a very faithful flight model of the Hustler. We cannot recommend this product highly enough.

Models and Textures

5 unique models and 10 texture sets

B-58A, Super Sue, 6592nd TS, Edwards AFB

B-58A, 305th BW, 2nd AF

B-58A, 59-2453, Top Cat, 43rd BW, Little Rock AFB

B-58A, Snoopy Testbed

TB-58A, 305th BW, Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana

B-58A, 55-662, ARDC, Edwards AFB

B-58A, Project Bullseye (official, but never used Southeast Asia camouflage over black scheme)

TB-58A, 55-0660, 'A' model converted to Trainer

TB-58A, 55-0670, Prototype

XB-58A, 55-0660, Prototype B-58

Features

High quality soundset included

Detailed virtual cockpit with night lighting, animations and 3D smooth gauges

Fuel Management including CoG and dump

Animated crew entry hatches (shift-e, 1, 2, 3)

Togglable ventral Pod

Animated braking chute

Animated engine turbines

Animated engine nozzle petals

Automatic control surfaces droop after engine shutdown

Automatic moving intake spikes (Mach 1.42)

Automatic afterburner flames & smoke effect

High detail undercarriage with realistic retraction sequence

Realisitic reflective hi-res bare-metal textures with bump, specular and reflectivity maps