I don't think there's enough fuel in that poor islands (Japan and Korea) to do a flyby just to scare the Chinese.

Interesting idea, though.

the B-58 could exceed mach 2. The B-1 barely breaks mach 1. We are, as a nation, a shadow of who we were 50 some years ago.

radar signature.

But from what I gather, they actually are keeping a few of these in flying condition. On the quiet tip.

What airspace problem?

in the video at 1:08, lit up billboard ad for Hitchcocks "Psycho"! How perfectly appropriate!

General Ripper explains everything in "Dr. Strangelove"...

At least I think it was a KAL flight shot down years ago. They weren't sword rattling either although China claimed they were spying for the US.

"On April 1, 2001, the Hainan Island incident occurred when a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

always thought the b58 was much cooler than the b 52
but they came and disappeared rather quickly

I lived in South Phillie during the summers. I was 9 or 10, and remember very clearly hearing double sonic booms on more than one occasion...

from what I read the B-58 was too vulnerable to Soviet SAMs, and lost it's speed advantage on low altitude approach. The B-1 is slower but better at this type of thing. Not to mention the B-58 was extremely dangerous to fly, at least from what I read.
And I once read an account from a guy who flew in them - he said in the war games our air defense never once stopped the B-58 from getting through to its mock target. Not even once.