North American XB-70 Valkyrie

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Yep, the mechanics always knew when they were coming back from a fast flight. The peeled-off paint was the giveaway. It was the same thing with the B-58 Hustler.

what a big beautiful bird thx for posting

Extraordinary aircraft realy shame that it didnt make it

I love thje scene with the B-58 escorting the mighty queen.....

that was cool! love the 80's music!

It also has Aluminium coated tyres.

This seems quite a long time ago. Can't imagine what the USAF has now that they're not letting us in on?

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Did it? :-D :-P

This a/c always reminds me of something from the Thunderbirds tv show.

Finally, an XB-70 video that's not only long enough, but also has music that suits the aircraft, and the '70s ENGINE SOUNDS! Bravo Zulu, 'en52'!

that plane is soooo sweet, Mach3 . To bad it sucked an F-104 into the right vert. stab. with those drooping wingtips creating huge vortices.

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Can't remember the Russians being ahead of USA technologies.... ;-)

What a futuristic plane...!!!

where is the crash video? t-38 valkyrie
rare stuff though the monster is not my favourite....

now thats a weird looking bird but i still love it

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It was the dry lake bed at Edwards AFB, were the Valkyrie (as well as just about every USAF aircraft) was put through flight testing. The lake bed is used because It can support 20,000 pounds per square foot, and measures something like 7 miles by 14 miles. A lot of room if something bad goes wrong!

I can see that its had to have a very long landway.. maybe thats why they were landing it on sand or something:P must have cost a lot of paint to.. i dont think they could find a good use for the plane

Note the missing paint from the body and the leading edge from high speed flight. The airplane was so advanced for its time, it was also ahead of paint!

A real pity this aircraft never went into production, it would've been one of the great classic aircraft of all time. Tu-160 got nothing on this.