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Posted: 1/2/2019 11:48:42 AM EST
 Failed To Load Title February 4, 1969. The XB70 Valkyrie makes it's final landing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio. It will then become a museum piece at the museum there. |
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Posted: 1/2/2019 12:17:38 PM EST
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Early bro dozer and rolling coal?
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Posted: 1/2/2019 12:19:00 PM EST
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I see that F104 stays at a pretty good distance.
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Posted: 1/2/2019 1:48:02 PM EST
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I see that F104 stays at a pretty good distance. |
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:06:21 PM EST
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I see that F104 stays at a pretty good distance.     
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:15:45 PM EST
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Interesting thread OP, thanks...
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:18:29 PM EST
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I wonder how it would have done in Linebacker II.
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:19:40 PM EST
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Early bro dozer and rolling coal? |
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:27:37 PM EST
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:28:20 PM EST
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yeah wow...6 phantom engines in that thing or what? In fairness it probably wasn't optimized for 500 feet and 200 knots. |
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Posted: 1/2/2019 2:28:24 PM EST
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I remember this happening as a kid:
Linky If I remember correctly, they used steel plates on the road surface to keep it from leaving ruts...... |
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Posted: 1/2/2019 3:13:54 PM EST
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Here's a video of some of the move. Skip forward to about 1:30 for the XB-70.
 Historic Aircraft Move 1970 |
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Posted: 1/2/2019 3:27:21 PM EST
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What were they running it on? Offroad diesel? Thing was smoking so bad I was looking for a Russian flag painted on it!
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Posted: 1/3/2019 12:10:30 PM EST
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 XB-70A Valkyrie: Progress Report 15 |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 12:25:43 PM EST
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From what I read, they nicknamed the engines 'The Six Pack'.
The plane was nicknamed 'The Savior' because when people first saw it they would say: "Jesus Christ". 
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Posted: 1/3/2019 12:40:35 PM EST
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I have a bit of the windscreen and honeycomb skin of the XB70 that crashed at Edward's. Cool airplane.
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:21:16 PM EST
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The real reason the XB-70 program was dropped. Smaller, faster, cheaper...
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:24:02 PM EST
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The real reason the XB-70 program was dropped. Smaller, faster, cheaper... https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg" target="_blank">https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg not really the same job... |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:26:02 PM EST
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Well... not really the same job... |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:27:04 PM EST
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Actually the last proposal made to save the B-70 program was to built a fleet of RB-70s, until Johnson revealed the existence of the faster and more affordable SR-71. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Well... not really the same job... Learn something new every day. |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:27:18 PM EST
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yeah wow...6 phantom engines in that thing or what? In fairness it probably wasn't optimized for 500 feet and 200 knots. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Early bro dozer and rolling coal? |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:37:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well... not really the same job... |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:41:56 PM EST
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A beautiful bird with a short sad history.
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:44:25 PM EST
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The Russians developed the Sukhoi T-4 in response to the XB-70 but the program was cancelled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4 Made of titanium and stainless steel. The real Firefox?
 
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Posted: 1/3/2019 4:48:19 PM EST
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Holy final AOA batman!
It was a flying leaning chimney. 
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Posted: 1/3/2019 6:13:06 PM EST
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The Russians developed the Sukhoi T-4 in response to the XB-70 but the program was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4 Made of titanium and stainless steel. The real Firefox?
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4733/24657722887_8c1cc0037b_b.jpg https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/2/3/0837323.jpg?v=v40 TU-144 
T-4 Note the cockpit/nose and tail area similarities 
T-4 versus XB-70 
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Posted: 1/3/2019 6:18:20 PM EST
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Those engines weren't so efficient at less than 17 quajillion miles per hour.
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Posted: 1/3/2019 8:38:54 PM EST
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The real reason the XB-70 program was dropped. Smaller, faster, cheaper... https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg" target="_blank">https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 9:01:05 PM EST
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Beautiful plane. Seems like anytime you see jet plane footage from that era theres always a huge trail of black smoke.
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Posted: 1/3/2019 9:12:09 PM EST
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More on the crash.
https://tacairnet.com/2014/10/27/crash-of-the-valkyrie/ Some comments from the link: George André I was a Lockheed F-104 test pilot and one of my tasks once was to brief Joe Walker on the differences of the F-104N as compared to the other models NASA was flying at the time. I have a treasured photo of Joe and I at the airplane. It was our understanding that Joe’s elevator contacted the end of the downward deflected B-70 right wingtip which caused a pitch up and loss of control. This scenario is somewhat more valid than a “whirlpool hurricane” drawing his airplane into a “snap roll” (roll yes, true snap roll = no way). The other unmentioned fact of this accident, as we understood it was by usual Air Force standards, very poorly organized and unbriefed and was a typical – “lets meet at thirty thousand over Edwards and take some pictures”. More of a “play it by ear” mission. Joe was a very fine fellow and a loss to the aviation world. I would later have the same job at TWA as did Al White in his short time there in 1967. George Kamburoff I was there that day. It was the day of my first X-15 launch, and on the way out in the pitch black early morning, I failed to see the XB-70 Air Vehicle #2 was not still parked outside our shop. The X-15 launch was scrubbed after takeoff, leaving their chase planes to assist in the XB-70 disaster.   XB-70 and F-104 Crash Sites - BLM Coolgardie 
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Posted: 1/3/2019 9:40:46 PM EST
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Good grief, I thought it was on fire.
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Posted: 1/3/2019 9:42:37 PM EST
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The fireman must have been stoking coal like a madman.
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Posted: 1/3/2019 9:54:07 PM EST
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Jesus.
The AOA on that aircraft on approach was very critical. Very amazing. 
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Posted: 1/3/2019 10:38:41 PM EST
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 XB-70 Valkyrie - The Mach 3 Strategic Bomber |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 11:25:54 PM EST
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Posted: 1/3/2019 11:46:45 PM EST
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The Russians developed the Sukhoi T-4 in response to the XB-70 but the program was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4 Made of titanium and stainless steel. The real Firefox?
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4733/24657722887_8c1cc0037b_b.jpg https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/2/3/0837323.jpg?v=v40 |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 11:57:24 PM EST
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I see that F104 stays at a pretty good distance. |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 11:59:41 PM EST
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Above my desk......pieces off the crashed xb-70. A piece off the braking system, an access panel door, bell crank system for landing gear doors, a solenoid, a few skin pieces (some with scratch marks for when it hit the ground), and an ingot from where the air force melted the burned wreckage. https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/ii158/allanteman/0/5b21bbea-edaa-4752-9a5a-525b6e3fe8a2-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:01:11 AM EST
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Such a sexy jet. And yuuuuge.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:09:15 AM EST
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The Russians developed the Sukhoi T-4 in response to the XB-70 but the program was cancelled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4 Made of titanium and stainless steel. The real Firefox?
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4733/24657722887_8c1cc0037b_b.jpg https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/2/3/0837323.jpg?v=v40 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:10:13 AM EST
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The XB70 was a cool bird.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:10:57 AM EST
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This jet was plagued with lots of problems.
 XB-70 Valkyrie Emergency Landing and fire On take-off  Watch this XB-70 supersonic bomber blow a tire and catch fire during take off |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:16:39 AM EST
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The XB-70 is one of the coolest planes to have ever flown, however there is a much lesser known and even more bizarre related air vehicle: the Lenticular Defense Missile aka Pye Wacket http://astronautix.com/p/pyewacket.html
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:52:07 AM EST
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The XB-70 is one of the coolest planes to have ever flown, however there is a much lesser known and even more bizarre related air vehicle: the Lenticular Defense Missile aka Pye Wacket http://astronautix.com/p/pyewacket.html 
Holy shit. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 8:57:55 AM EST
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The real reason the XB-70 program was dropped. Smaller, faster, cheaper... https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg" target="_blank">https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:28:07 AM EST
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WOW where did you get those parts? If you look on eBay, there's another gentleman in AZ that has a ton of Valkyrie pieces for sale. He definitely has the largest collection of anyone. He has a bunch of SR-71 parts too. I like the B-70 parts since there were only two of them......I have one set of these parts, and the other one is in Dayton.....that's it. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:37:29 AM EST
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This jet was plagued with lots of problems. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:40:13 AM EST
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Funny, this Monday I just saw her in the new hangar 4 of the museum. Love that bird, but the B-36 is much more impressive.
I took almost 2000 pictures there |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:47:19 AM EST
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The real reason the XB-70 program was dropped. Smaller, faster, cheaper... https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg" target="_blank">https://68.media.tumblr.com/490d76a5df165ca79c3635f2a9d174f2/tumblr_nldmlshYQs1ttiiaeo1_500.jpg |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:55:25 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually, there WERE plans to conduct strike missions from the -72, as well as to build an enlarged 4 engine variant - at least according to Aviation Weekly from back then .... |
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