B-58 instead of TSR2 ?

[SPINNERS]

Very entertaining! Here's my take on a V-Force Hustler...

[uk 75]

Back in the early 60s a German firm called Siku made plastic kit like made
up planes in 1-250 scale. I was sent a Convair B58 toy for Christmas and still have
it.  No picture on this site but some fun stuff http://www.avkits.net/kit50/siku/Siku.html

In a further Convair B58 connection, Brize Norton used to get regular B47 visits until about 1963.
They were due to get regular B58 Hustler visits as well, but these did not happen and the RAF
took the base over for its VC10s for the rest of my school days.

The US toy firm Marx (who made the plastic TSR 2 which I got for my 9th Birthday in 1964) made
a wonderful B58 toy in a similar scale (it was like their Bristol 188 made in plastic and tin).

Sadly they don't come cheap anymore but I have seen one in the flesh and it is as noisy and fun as the
TSR 2
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Marx-Tin-Toy-CONVAIR-B58-Hustler-Jet-Plane-NMIB-Made-Japan-/270842267427

In the land of what if the Comic Strip in the Daily Express "Jeff Hawke" by Sydney Jordan went one better and had the RAF using a B70 Valkyrie lookalike painted in V bomber white but with a single fin and used as a refueler like the Victor.

[sandiegobrit]

thanks  uk75...i didn't know brize norton was used by the usaf i thought it had always been transport command! I remember going there to pick up my aunt and uncle who had been stationed in Cyprus in the early 70's

[PR19_Kit]

Heavens above! 

Brize was an SAC base for years, one of the reasons it has such a long runway is because they based B-36s there before the B-47s. When I lived in Oxford the approach path to the 26 runway at Brize was almost directly overhead and you could FEEL a B-36 coming in rather than hear it! B-47s used to pop their small drag chute right over Oxford, which looked bizarre unless you knew that it was SOP for them.

Nostalgia rules OK.