B-58 flying over Texas, 1962

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TropicalPunch@reddit

What's the source for this photograph? I'm a photo-historian, and I'm very interested in a high-res version.

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Atholthedestroyer@reddit

That's how they got started. Their logo is supposed to be a spinning propeller

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dioptase-@reddit

i'd like to know t.t

A persistent myth claims that the logo is based on the image of an airplane propeller spinning in a blue sky. This myth likely stems from a 1929 BMW advertisement that depicted the logo superimposed on a rotating propeller. However, the logo predates that advertisement by 12 years.

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ReV46@reddit

I know. It’s a joke because they make an engine called the B58 nowadays.

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electriclux@reddit

Weird that this was around in an era where there were ufo sightings

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ilovebooks2468@reddit

Weird how UFO sightings didn't become commonplace until the advent of aircraft...

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There was a thread elsewhere the other day that was talking, essentially, things that animals have experienced that they could never have fathomed. Spurred on, of course, by that video of the parrot in the submarine...

...I wonder where seeing a low-level, supersonic strategic bomber go by fits into the worldview of cows.

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BearFan34@reddit

I grew up on a farm about 24 miles NW of Bunker Hill/Grissom AFB where these bad boys were based. If the cows were Holsteins rather and Angus, that picture could have been of our farm. So many times can I recall one or two screaming across the countryside at seemingly treetop level. They weren't that low but that is my memory and I'm sticking with it. Quite familiar with sonic booms.

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