MORE random pics......

[Ronbo]

Originally posted by NKN84944
There is actually one left at the United States Air Force Museum by Dayton Ohio.

I think the Smithsonian has one also.

[sammyg2]

Bill, according to a test pilot that flew it that flying wing was a piss poor design. He hated the plane. Uncontrollable yaw, it tended to do somersaults when it stalled, killed two good pilots. I think one of them was named Edwards, later an air force base where he died was named after him. that is what killed the plane.

[billyboy]

I was going by what Jack Northrup told my dad, but I guess that he might have had a different view of the situation!

[singpilot]

That famous XB-70 crash was at Edwards AFB. An F-104 chase plane got too close to the Valkyrie, and got into the wingtip vortice at altitude. It rolled the 104 up onto the top of the wing, and across the rear fuselage, cleaning off the verticle stab. It actually flew for a few minutes before rolling over and going in. The 104 crashed as well. The entire event was captured on film.

[StevoRocket]

Edwards Airforce base history.....


http://www.edwards.af.mil/about_edwards/index.html


The final entry in Glen Edwards’ diary, on June 3, was both ebullient and thoughtful: "What a wonderful day this has been! Got off two flights on the YB-49, a lovely flight on the DC-6, one on the C-74—and I’m bushed…Col. Boyd flew the YB-49 for the first time today and wasn’t too impressed. We all share the same views. A passable airplane in ideal circumstances."

That was the last entry in the diary. Two days later, on June 5, 1948, Edwards and four others were killed in the crash of their YB-49.

Just before 8 a.m. on that Saturday morning, a motorist on State Road 466 saw huge pieces of metal plummeting to earth northwest of Muroc Air Force Base.

YB-49 s/n 42-102368, undergoing a series of performance evaluations, had departed controlled flight and experienced a catastrophic failure in the air.

The center section containing the cockpit and crew stations crashed within view of the base; the outer wing panels fluttered to earth some distance away.

Capt. Glen W. Edwards and Maj. Daniel H. Forbes Jr. were the pilots that day; 1st Lt. Edward L. Swindell, Mr. Clare C. Lesser, and Mr. C.H. LaFountain were also aboard. The exact chain of events leading to the bomber’s loss of control remains a matter of some controversy.

[Sarc]

Some XB-70 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85e6zc8YEw

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1468431643251815785&q=xb-70&hl=en

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Sarc
Some XB-70 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85e6zc8YEw

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1468431643251815785&q=xb-70&hl=en

Someone should add a sound track to those. Looks like a hooded cobra ready to strike.

[Steve PH]

The XB-70 looks a bit tasty! Excuse my ignorance but what was it designed to do, long range supersonic bomber?

[austin552]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1TGvvBrPVc

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Steve PH
The XB-70 looks a bit tasty! Excuse my ignorance but what was it designed to do, long range supersonic bomber?

Yes, and high altitude, but Russian/Soviet missles put an end to that when Gary Powers went down.

The XB-70 rode it's own shockwave, and the ends of the wings bent down because it just didn't need all that lift going that fast.

When my brother an I were kids our dad purchased for my brother an SR-71, and for myself the XB-70 plastic models. We had them hanging from the ceiling once we put them together, but when our dad decided to join a pillow fight we were having the both planes fell to their final demise. That's why we had the "must stay on your knees" rule dad!

[austin552]

http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/Supersonic.html

[efhughes3]

Traffic Question:
Most men will get this right!

You are driving along a narrow two lane road with a NO PASSING sign posted,and come upon a bicycle rider. Do you follow this slow-moving bicycle rider for the next 2 miles, or do you break the law and pass?

Which is the correct choice?

[Porsche-poor]

To pass or make a pass that is the question.

[gatotom]

if I am in no hurry and get to look at that fine thing sitting or standing on her bicycle, I would enjoy the scenery.

If I am in a hurry to go somewhere, the bike rider is breathing my exhaust, if she is riding in the proper place, to the right of the fog line, I won't even go across the middle line, that is if I am in my 911.

[cegerer]

[dafischer]

Originally posted by cegerer

Big Bird without his feathers?

[dafischer]

Originally posted by kach22i
Yes, and high altitude, but Russian/Soviet missles put an end to that when Gary Powers went down.

I thought that Gary Powers went down in his U2 in 1960, prior to the XB-70.

[Brian Cameron]

Originally posted by efhughes3
Traffic Question:
Most men will get this right!

You are driving along a narrow two lane road with a NO PASSING sign posted,and come upon a bicycle rider. Do you follow this slow-moving bicycle rider for the next 2 miles, or do you break the law and pass?

Which is the correct choice?

Personally, I prefer to ride two abreast.

[Usmellgass2?]

Originally posted by Brian Cameron
Personally, I prefer to ride two abreast.

Whoo Dude...What ever,, but I got a new desk top

[kach22i]

Originally posted by dafischer
I thought that Gary Powers went down in his U2 in 1960, prior to the XB-70.

He did but the funding and the design were in the works so they just had to build a couple.

They say the few XB-70's they built cost more than their weight in gold.

True aircraft buffs miss the cold war.