Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "Why the futuristic B-58 was useless before it even took to the sky..." video.

What design influence? These two aircraft have very little in common. Delta wing vs swing wing. No horizontal tail vs a big tail, separately podded engines vs grouped engines. No bomb bay vs multiple bomb bays. Separate tandem crew positions vs conventional multi-place cockpit.
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@GrantvsMaximvs Long thin fuselage describes most high-speed aircraft, as it is a basic aerodynamic principle rather than a styling cue. What you call a dorsal hump is not an actual dorsal hump like aircraft such as the A-4M have, it is simply the cockpit being elevated to provide view over the nose as in most aircraft, such as the B-17. Realistically speaking the swing wing is fundamentally and dramatically different in appearance, function, and performance compared to the delta wing of the B-58. Sorry, but the B-58 did not influence the design of the B-1 any more than any other previous aircraft did.
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The B-1 was designed to penetrate at low level in a high-low-high profile. It was a much heavier airplane with much longer range. The B-58 simply didn't have the necessary range when flown at low level. It also didn't have the all-weather-terrain following systems that did not exist when it was developed.
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This is just another in the growing series of YouTube videos that judge every imperfect airplane, tank, or doctrine of the past a failure. Useless? The people making these videos don't know squat about what was possible and what was useful back then.
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@FoundAndExplained Not everybody needs to make videos, and too many of you are doing it already. Unfortunately not very well most times.
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Area rule did not help the airplane cruise at Mach 2. Area rule reduces drag in the transonic range and helps an airplane accelerate through that drag rise. Once the plane is fully supersonic area rule has done its work. The Mach 2.5 F-15 doesn't even have area rule because it has so much acceleration is doesn't need it.
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And one doesn't even need superficial knowledge of history to make a video on YouTube. All one need do is set text from Wikipedia to pictures, if one bothers to do that much research before making a video on a subject known only because it was seen in another video. People here think the Nazis invented the liquid fuel rocket and have never even heard of Robert Goddard.
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If the film you mean was the great "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart, it was a B-47 he was shown in the hangar. There is an Air Force publicity film of him climbing out of the cockpit of a B-58.
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@Hattonbank Yes, the Defensive Systems Operator in the third cockpit seat operated the gun. He was much more than a gunner.
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