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  1. tbakowsky

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    #1 tbakowsky, Dec 24, 2005
    This to me is one of the coolest looking air planes ever built. Does anybody have any insdie info on this thig? Were can I go and see one?

    Crap..can't upload the pic...I'll try a bit later
     
  2. Spasso

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    #2 Spasso, Dec 24, 2005
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    These sites will get you started.

    http://www.labiker.org/xb70.html

    All you ever wanted to know,
    http://www.unrealaircraft.com/classics/xb70.php

    XB-70A DATA
    LENGTH: 185 feet
    SPAN: 105 feet
    HEIGHT: 30 feet
    WEIGHT: Over 450,000 pounds
    RANGE: Intercontinental
    SPEED: 2,000 mph
    ALTITUDE: 70,000 feet, plus
    ENGINES: Six General Electric J-93; 30,000-pound thrust class
    CREW: Pilot, co-pilot
    FUEL: JP-6
    MISSION: Research

    XB-70A | Back to Post-War Developments

    Mid air collision with F-104 http://www.xb-70.com/wmaa/xb70/



    Photo gallery, http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/xb-70/

    Now go look up a Russian TU-144-- http://perso.wanadoo.es/tu144sst/
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    #3 tbakowsky, Dec 24, 2005
    Very cool!!! Thanks!
     
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    #4 sparky p-51, Dec 26, 2005
    Got to see the one at Wright Pat up close and personal on a EAA Warbirds tour. What a beautiful machine. Go to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton and see that awsome beast.
     
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    #5 Spasso, Dec 26, 2005
    Considering the era and technology available it was quite amazing.
     
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    #6 tbakowsky, Dec 27, 2005
    I heard talk that they were going try and fly one again, to get some flight data from it for the new supersonic transport that they are working on.

    I know they did that with the Russian version of the Concorde in the mid 90's I belive. That would be really amazing to see that XB-70 in flight..they should do a touring of airshows with it..If they ever get it flying again..
     
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    #7 Spasso, Dec 27, 2005
    I bet it costs over 100,000 an hour to fly including maintenance.

    I heard the all-electric flight controls on the Valkyrie had a few short comings, probably because there were no computers to analyze flight attitude of the craft, regulate and average control inputs like today's a/p's (fighters).

    Ironically there is a new commercial airliner that is going all electric. The only hydraulics on the entire a/p will be the landing gear actuators. This will save a lot of weight. True "fly-by-wire".
     
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    #8 bwassam, Jan 15, 2006
    There's a book about the XB-70 project called "The Manned Missle." It's an old book that's long out of print. Finding a copy may be a problem. They may have a copy at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio, or maybe the Smithsoniam In Washington DC.

    I use tohave a copy of it, but it was lost long long ago. . .

    Bob Wassam
     
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    #9 Sam Sullivan, Mar 15, 2007
    What a lucky fellow I was a long time ago. As a motion picture guy back in the 60s I got to go out to Palmdale and document the taxi tests on that beast. At that time the brakes kept leaking hyd fluid and it was a 30 day trip for not much of anything. Mosi impressive thing I remember was what a noise maker that thing was... Sam...
     
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    #10 Spasso, Mar 19, 2007
    With six after-burning "suck & blows" the thing must have been ear shattering.
    I would have love to have seen/heard a take off at Military power.
     

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