To: valkyry1
6 engine, 6000 mile range, 2000 mph cruise.
6 posted on
08/15/2008 3:38:50 PM PDT by
Sundog
(Hussein . . . B. Hussein or S. Hussein?)
To: Sundog
Momentum Recovery at its finest. And it was only tested at 80% 85% its potential I read once.
9 posted on
08/15/2008 3:42:10 PM PDT by
valkyry1
To: Sundog
To my eyes that is still the most beautiful plane we ever built.
10 posted on
08/15/2008 3:42:49 PM PDT by
SeeSharp
To: Sundog
More trivia questions. Did the Valkyrie benefit more from compression lift or reduced trim drag when it dropped the wing tips?
12 posted on
08/15/2008 3:44:33 PM PDT by
valkyry1
To: Sundog
XB-70...
Definitely in the top 10 of my candidates for “Coolest Plane Ever”.
15 posted on
08/15/2008 3:45:40 PM PDT by
VOA
To: Sundog
Unfortunately the XB-70 was canned because the U.S.A.F. determined that the Soviet anti-Aircraft S.A.M.’s were way to effective.
The XB-70 would have been very vulnerable.At least that was the thought at the time.
Great looking bird though.
39 posted on
08/15/2008 4:21:33 PM PDT by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: Sundog
I remember seeing the B-70 at the WPAFB museum in 1976 and thinking “it looks like a real airplane!” because its underside was covered with leaking hydraulic fluid and rubber dust.
45 posted on
08/15/2008 4:35:07 PM PDT by
Grut
To: Sundog
My favorite airplane. The lone survivor is on display at the Air Force Museum at Write Patterson (Dayton, Oh)
54 posted on
08/15/2008 5:00:37 PM PDT by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: Sundog
I ate lunch under a XB-70A Valkyrie in Ohio.
77 posted on
08/15/2008 8:48:48 PM PDT by
ThomasThomas
(Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
To: valkyry1; SeeSharp; VOA; Baynative; puppypusher; Grut; tang-soo
XB-70 Photo Archive
It probably flew better with dropped wing tips due to the compression lift, I read where it had the greatest lift efficiency of any fast / large aircraft.
81 posted on
08/15/2008 9:02:39 PM PDT by
Sundog
(Hussein . . . B. Hussein or S. Hussein?)
To: Sundog
I had forgotten the XB-70. What a beauty. Still not in the class of that firtatious tart, the Sr-71, but quite good.
123 posted on
08/16/2008 12:45:01 PM PDT by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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