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  • This video went viral on Yemen

  • People who are enthusiasts should really learn what these things are called ; )

    They are AIRCRAFT, not aeroplanes!!!, not airplanes!!!!!, not planes!!!

    A plane is a flat surface, an airplane is a lazy way of saying aeroplane, which is again, a flat surface except that it my be curved like a WING. A WING is an aeroplane, an aileron is an aeroplane, and airfoil is an airplane/aeroplane!

    The whole machine, that flies, with a fuselage, wings, elevators and rudder - that is an AIRCRAFT!!! : )

  • @marcjager Agree!

  • Great model but why didn't they put it in service is it his cost?

  • A wing of 20 B-70 Valkyrie's was funded by Congress and a approved by LBJ for FY1967

    Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara withheld the funds for the aircraft and diverted them illegally

    Since it's politically inappropriate to tell the American people that the SECDEF is prick, a BS cover story was put out

    The cover was that up and coming air defense systems (a blatant lie nothing on the planet today is capable of intercepting a Mach 3 aircraft) made the B-70 obsolete

  • I remember seeing this in the early 70's as a little kid when my dad took me to WPAFB. Simply stunning. We have an SR71 here in Oregon now. Another stunner. Thanks for sharing

  • its an honor living in the same state that the XB-70 is in the worlds first Supersonic bomber (in service or not)

  • Too heavy to fly. A compelet waste

  • The B-70 is my favourite aircraft. Beautiful to look at, and full of weaknesses!

  • how about a x 15?

  • This and the SR71 are the most amazing aircraft designed...Add the F22 as well.

    The TU190 is a inferior copy

  • Hey Great job in your interview:) thats some interesting information about this aircraft:)

  • noob question: real flying that fast?

  • teh most insane aircraft EVER.

    the 2 prototypes they made cost more than their weight in GOLD. and they were heavy mofos.

    the pilots were hosed in separate shock-proof "eggs" to enhance their chance of survival in case of a crash.

    the thing used a type of "claws" on the trailing edge of it wings to hang on to a sonic boom as it traveled at more than 60,000 ft up, mach 3.5+.. utterly crazy space trek on acid and glue man!

  • My father worked at Cleveland Pneumatic Tool where they made the landing gears for this beauty. Unfortunately, the government ended the project and my dad was laid off.

  • You can go there without the tour if you have military I.D.

  • You can get over there without the tour if you have military I.D.

  • whats soo good about the aurora ?? PM me and let me know please thxs.

  • it couldnt be to fantastic if they only built two prototypes,when jets dont get passed the prototype stange something is a problem,so fantastic airplane-not.

  • not entirely true in this case. In an era of new ballistic missles to deliver nukes,, the money to continue development of an out-dated "bombers" was cancelled. Especially after the fatal crash of the "good" prototype, there wasnt a justification to continue development.

  • wagner...ride of the valkyrie

  • whats the name of the song in the begining of this vid?

  • I think its Valkyrie.

  • I believe its Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries'...

  • @XIXDJXIX es WALKURE

  • @XIXDJXIX It's Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", also known as Kill the Wabbit

  • @XIXDJXIX Flight of the Valkyries

  • Hmm, Wright-Patterson, where they hide all the downed UFOs...

  • lol UFOs, lol, haha, nerd

  • where is this?

  • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. I live nearby and have been several times. This plane is truly amazing for me to see everytime! It aint the smithsonian but still very good and very reasonably priced. Yearly july airshow is decent also.

  • wright patt kicks ass

  • that is a truly amazing aircraft

  • The XB-70 is the prize exhibit at Wright-Patterson, but the hanger that houses it, unlike the rest of the museum, is in a military restricted area on the base. You have to sign up to get on a bus that takes you there, and you're not allowed to remain there for more than about 40 minutes. The XB-70 and the X-15 A-2 were the main reason I went to the museum, and I hardly got any time to look at them.

  • Funny, it wasn't restricted when i went there to see the SR-71 7 or 8 years ago.

  • One of the two was lost in a midair collision, while the other ended up in the museum.

    With a few development problems and very high cost ($20million per flight), and ICBMs, it was seen as unnecessary. It was uses for several years by the Air Force and Nasa for research.

    As for the Sukhoi T-4, it only flew 10 hours and 40 minutes--total. It never achieved it's intended performance and highest known speed of mach 1.89-- and was not a bomber but a reconnaisance and interceptor. Continued.

  • To settle many disputes, the XB-70 only flew mach 3--3.08 at 72000feet. It was designed to cruise at mach 3 because drag was greater at transsonic (high subsonic)speed. It would burn more fuel per hour, but cover more miles in that hour.  Originally designed to use a new Boron fuel, later switched to JP-6.

    Only 2 were built since the project was cancelled as a cost-cutting measure by Def. Sec. Macnamara. Continued next.

  • how am i to understand Fantastic?

  • Esa cosa nunca sirvio , solo para el museo,

    c'est chose-la n'a jamais etait en service n'a aucune valeur aerinautique

    that's one was never in service, just for take money taxer

  • HunterX109 .... I was just at the museum in May 2008. The XB-70 is still there. There is a seperate hanger just for the X-planes. You have to take a shuttle bus to it from the main museum. Only about 10 aircraft are still outside. All the others are now in hangers. I think they are going to build another hanger eventually. Great museum. Took me and my brother about 7 hours just to look at everything! Admittance is free too!

  • I went to Wright-Pat AFB once in 1982 or 83. At the time this plane was outside the building. I listened to most of the commentary from the museum worker but not all. I'll add that this was #1 of 2 that were built. The second one was lost in a mid-air collision.

  • Not a great video, but a gem nonetheless! Hadn't heard of the XB-70 in many, many years. This was a precursor to the SR-71 in the late 1950's! Anybody still doubt the existence of Aurora?

  • How could it be better when the T-4 never reached mach 3? The T-4 was a rip off of the older XB-70 Valkyrie; it's raised fuselage, delta wing, & forward canard similarities aren't coincidental. The Soviets, knowing NASA would spend billions on research for a super sonic bomber used the XB design for their own version; the T-4. Just as they did with the Tu-160 (B-1), Tu-4 (B-29), & space shuttle. The Soviets even designed their modern day MiG/Su fighters after the XB-70 (raised fuselage).

  • WOW! I see it from camra that the XB-70 in the museum. I am vary mad now knowing that they took it out. I wish it was there still. I want to see it for myself!

  • If anyone hasn't mentioned you spent a lot of time on the X-15

  • i was 2 months old at the time the video was amde ôÔ

  • umm avro arrow was better

  • and that thinh transforn into a robot like the robotech Valkiries? ahhahaa lol

  • looks like a 3yr old did this video. can't really see a damm thing except the undercarriage

  • cool

  • T-4 Sukhoi is better =P

  • How could it be better when the T-4 never reached mach 3? The T-4 was a rip off of the older XB-70 Valkyrie; it's raised fuselage, delta wing, & forward canard similarities aren't coincidental. The Soviets, knowing NASA would spend billions on research for a super sonic bomber used the XB design for their own version; the T-4. Just as they did with the Tu-160 (B-1), Tu-4 (B-29), & space shuttle. The Soviets even designed their modern day MiG/Su fighters after the XB-70 (raised fuselage).

  • I've saw also this museum in OHIO. really nice.

  • lol this was filmed before I was born

  • The only aircraft that could carry any weight while sustaining supersonic flight, and that at Mach 2.2, was the Concorde.

  • wright paterson has changed a lot since this video.

  • writ paterson airforce base museum was the best airplane museum i have been to ever!

  • how fucking stupid can you be it very clearly says "VALKYRIE" right in the first few seconds of the video

  • SR71 is beautiful on take off

  • i'm still a fan of the lockheed sr-71 blackbird

  • im still a fan of the north amricn x60

  • BAC TSR2 :D

    not as fast, not the same role, but its a beautiful aircraft. only 1 on display in duxford, UK. would have been better than F111, its competetor if it got built :(

  • only one cuz the other one crashed in testing, i think, tell me if im wrong lol

  • WOW THE BOTTOM OF THE PLANE IS GREAT !!! why would you not back up and show the whole plane???

  • This was filmed before youtube existed. I don't even know if the plane is still on display.

  • why?

  • @IrenaScott

    I think more than two of these were built.  Not many more, but more.

  • @IrenaScott yes the plane is still on display but it has been moved from this location (im not sure where) to the opposite room of the building inside the airforce base where they have the presidental planes..one room has the presidential planes and the other has experimental planes

  • This isn't the XB-70 Aurora it's the XB-70 Valkyrie. The Aurora is a rumor, the Valkyrie is not.

  • very sexy bomber, ive always wanted to fly this plane

  • The only Mach 6 aircraft in this video is the X-15 (with the orange fuel pods) The SR-71 and the XB-70 were good for Mach 3+ which was still faster than anything they were likely to encounter. As northerbrewer says, the MiG-25 could sprint to that speed if necessary but it would destroy the engines.

  • The XB-70 could not do Mach 6. It was designed to do Mach 3 and not much more since that was quite an achievement by itself. The only bona fide Mach 6 aircraft in this video is the X-15 in the background. Pretty amazing aircraft though.

  • Its not the Aurora, Its the XB-70 "Valkyrie" we dont know if the Aurora even exists.

  • That was the xb-70 and the x-15 not the Aurora. Aurora is still classified.

  • cool SR-72 behind it

  • SR-71

  • Speed is the ultimate High!! Great video! Where did the technology come from that long ago? So many things can go wrong at Mach 6!!! You guys that build this stuff are my heros!! Fly

  • The XB-70 didn't do Mach 6. It did Mach 3. The only aircraft in this vid which did Mach 6 was the X-15 (the one with the orange fuel pods).

  • I'm sure your wife in the background just loves your blibber blabber about the little airplanes.

  • hahaha

  • Grrr! Supersonic passenger transport has been in operation for 30 years if you don't live in the US! Oh, until it sucked up a bit of broken Boeing on a French runway that fell off as a result of clearly not being welded back on properly after it fell off the last time! (Note: not the first time!)

  • Reading comments... 1. You can't sup at a GnT served by a nice girl in an SR71, good plane as it is, or the XB so they are not SST's, Concord is. 2. TSR2 designed to fly at m2 at 50ft, can't shoot it down! Thats why canceled, some one would steal plans and declare war. 3. Edge technology always dropped because governments want to sell it and make money. 4. Going v v fast is hot. 5. Shuttle glides but maneuvers at m20= v cool and clever. 6. A black5f is a steam locomotive, here and on PS3.

  • continued...We've just dumped the tornado :-( 400mph faster than an F16 which is why we could intercept airspace violations in under 4 minutes, but the F15,is the dogs bollocks. I do miss the Alconbury UK airshows! Wow, wheel stop to 40,000ft vertical in 4 mins, thats 7.5 miles. wot a plane. They used to so that at air shows.

  • Lovely plane the XB-70. But being a brit the best aircraft ever built was the TSR2. Some facts: the only SST was Concord, grounded after 30 years of trouble free service by some bits that fell off off a Boeing! Also the fastest plane point to point,it doesn't have to slow down and refuel. The first stealth plane was built by Hitler and the design was copied to give us our current stealth aircraft. Continued...

  • Is the Camera-Man suffering from the Parkinson's Disease? Please learn how to use a camcorder, it's simple!

  • Very Eco friendly

  • Basically the worlds first SST..Used six GE engines lined up across the back. Project was scrapped due to one that crashed during normal flight over Alaska after an escort plane was sucked into one of the control surfaces.

  • yeah I have that video.

    I'm from where they built it. They lost a pilot that day as well.

    A lot of great aircraft come out of our valley.

  • Worlds fantastic? Not really, NASA's X-43A SCRamjet can go up to MACH 10

  • Hope you weren't born out of the plane's ass...

  • And to think that an phenomenal aircraft like the XB-70 Valkyrie was designed and built before the advent of computer-aided design, powerful mathematics and simulation software.

    It stands with the SR-71 as one of the greatest accomplishments in aerospace engineering ever.

  • Depends on your POV.

    The Foxbat with its welded stainless steel air frame was produced in quantity just in case this plane was ever built.

    Final Foxbats were reported to be able to sprint to Mach 3.3 if they were to sacrifice their engines in order to chase and intercept a black bird. No one has ever proved a Foxbat could run down and kill black brid or Valkyrie but its does hold all the offical records

  • is this in dayton ohio? if it is i think i have seen this

  • Yes it is, I have been there too

  • how longa go the XB-70 leave service?

    or is it still going today?

  • No, I don't think it even ever cleared the prototype phase it may have though, it was made for the Coldwar I think.

  • @6:37 that was the X-3 Stiletto(which was kind of a technical whoopsie as for what it was supposed to be capable of).

    Chuck Yeager flew the X-1 past mach 1.

  • we were at the museum a few days ago so not possible to make a vid like this because the ceiling is now painted flat black so glad this vid is here for ppl to see. Even so, go to Dayton and see it yourself even if you cannot get a nice vid like this one.

  • Can anyone show me a map on mapquest where the museum is?

  • Tell me the address or mapquest map of where the museum is. This AURORA is freakin me out!

  • i thought the XB70 was different from the aurora... the aurora was supposedly groom lake's dark eagle that was spotted in the black sea and stuff... anyone care to correct?

  • You morons! this is the XB-70 Valkerie! the aurora bomber is still Unknown. there's no way they would release it in a museum when they don't know what they're talking about

  • you morons! this is the XB-70 Valkerie! Not the Aurora bomber. the Aurora bomber is still unknown.

  • Hope you weren't born out of the plane's ass...

  • hope u weren't born out of the Plane's ass...

  • MARCH 18, 1994! THAT'S THE EXACT DAY I WAS BORN! lol

    Awesome plane!

  • This was a NASA test aircraft designed to test certain speeds at high altitudes and vice versa.

    Some of you people are ignorant.

  • Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you. This plane was designed to replace the B52 as a Mach 3 intercontinental bomber. It was deemed too complicated and expensive, and it was replaced by the B1B Lancer supersonic bomber and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. It was not ever used by NASA for testing.

  • I've heard of this museum so many times already, where is it anyways? I'm crazy to go visit

  • this vid is bs!not what i wanted 2 c!i was expecing to see the aurora go mach6!i couldnt even watch the whole thing cause its bullshit!

  • He guy Amerika steel all his modern warfare from the Nazis, Germans got the first Nuklear-reaktor, the first Rockets, the first Stealthfighter and so on and so on

  • you seem to forget that none of them worked......

    the V-2 couldent hit any thing the reactor didnt produce enough power to be useful and the "stenth" project never made it past test

  • Even if they did, we still did it better, and always will.

  • I love all of these planes! Too bad that they are mostly intended for warfare. Will war ever become obsolete? War will probably only end when we exterminate ourselves. The rest of the universe will probably say, 'another one bites the dust'...

  • war (on this scale) will be obsolete, when mankind is gone... but war is everywhere in the natural world, from ants, on up the foodchain.

  • The XB-70 doesn't go mach 6 it only goes mach 3!!!!!

  • hehe, It's look like smaller version of Tupolev-144 (Tu-144) :-)

    I like it

  • no... the Tu-144 was a sxaled up copy of the xb-70... but it really didn't matter in the long run... the ICBM killed any need for a fleet of super sonic bombers... and then came the b-1 ... and here we go again... *sigh*

  • The T-4 Sotka actually is what you are refferring to..It was the bomber and not the Tu-144. The T-4 was smaller than the XB-70 and only had 4 engines. It never achieved speeds as high as the XB-70..It also didn't fly until the 1970's, well after the XB-70.

  • sick i luv da valkyrie xb-70!!

  • Who let the Chimp use the camcorder? I'm getting car sick watching this!!!

  • idiot the us military has protoytpes which can fly with mach 15-17 -.-

  • Who cares who the hell built it,it's frickin' fantastic...It flies partially using the power of its own sonic booms right? So in theory,the faster it goes the more fuel efficient it would become correct?So minus the fact that certain speeds would no doubt bring the structural integrity into question,the faster it moves the smoother it operates.Then there's of course the question of g-forces on the pilots.Imagine that,a machine built in the 1950's,so powerful,its only weakness is a human pilot.

  • Oh, I get it. The plane is the "Valkyrie" and the music is "Ride of the Valkyrie." Clever. If you were a lawyer, would your vanity plate say "LAWYER"?

  • Do you feel by pointing it out you are intelligent (clue: no) yes lets of people know this tune

  • Somebody tell me what can make a bomber or a jet go up to mach 1? is it better engines or what?? if so y doesn't our airforce just make a super engine that allow our aircraft to go up to mach 10???thx

  • you can get an aircraft of any size to exceed the speed of sound by designing it to be slipperier (streamlining) and by developing big honking engines that can push it through the air faster than the air can get out of the way. Problem is ( as previously mentioned) that around Mach 2.5-3.0, all that air being pushed aside heads up the aircraft and things get too hot for stuff like engines and fuselages, even with modern materials. They're working on it (eg: Hyper-X)

  • yea but thatsnot the AURORA the AURORA is ment to be that fast you cant see it from the ground and its alot faster then the but there also a new aircraft (film stealth) the talon was a prototype and in one landing scene its real footage cus it was a test aircraft but not for militery uses it was for the new fighter aircraft ovewr taking the role of the old stealth the aircraft is called shadowhawk but is not coming into production because of safty reasons eg very unstable in flight

  • i just recently saw this plane at the useum and its HUUGE

  • The XB-70 is not Aurora, you retard.

  • retarded cameraman..YOU SUCK!

  • fucking noob camera work . lol try to make it better nxt time

  • this jet was Set for Mach 3 already amzing for a plane of this size

  • holy shit this lady need to learn how to hold a camera!

  • sr 71 > this?

  • The XB-70 is not the Aurora, and was a huge waste of money! The YF-12 was already a more capable platform and one that wouldn't get shot down; unlike the 70 which was a big beautiful defenseless target for the Soviets new high altitude SA missiles. Thanks to Gen. LeMay (who LOVED the XB-70) the Oxecart project and field tested YF-12 platform developed for the CIA got stonewalled as a tactical bomber/ long range intercepter. ps Mach=speed of object/speed of sound in that substance. no exact speed

  • Irena Scott, you have been to aeronautical Valhalla!

  • Irena Scott. You have been to aeronautical Valhalla!

  • should be named the bottom of the xb 70

  • Old technology

  • The title is debatable, only because its subjective!

  • ypur camera work SUCKS

  • Well thats not the Aurora and nice song lol

  • stupid russian communis tried to copy it, isn't?

  • i always thought the xb-70 was the valkyrie!

  • what is a SONIC BOOM ? does anybody here can give me idea what it is and how it works?THANKS.

  • mach 1 = its speed is equal to the speed of sound in air (which is 332 m/s or 1195 km/hr or 717 miles/hour.) When you get to that speed you fo faster that the speed of sound, and thats create a sonic boom, when you go at that speed, you can't hear anything, because you break the wall of sound.

  • In other words you physically leave the sound that you are creating behind you.

  • spead of sound depends on level over the ground

  • In an ideal gas, the speed of sound is directly proportional to temperature, not pressure.

  • mach is exactly equal to 1225 km/h at sea level.

  • U just go f*king fast...

  • America is an amazing country. You can't get a good medical care if you are not rich, but they build a supersonic jet, which costs billion of dollars. I don't understand, maybe because I am an ignorant southamerican.

  • The only ignorant thing you said is: "America is a country"!!!mostly if u r southAmerican!And what is amazing about US is how good they are to steal from Germany.That's a inheritance from UK!

  • um this plane has nothing to do with Germany but yes lol. also America is a Country Dumbass. UNITED STATES OF "AMERICA"

  • yeah it probably is beucause your an ignorant south american

  • "I don't understand, maybe because I am an ignorant southamerican. "

    Yup, that's the reason...

  • papuette actually health care quality depends on where one lives,there are plenty of myths, But private charity exists, from hospitals and doctors as well as from individuals who support charitable organizations. Some two-thirds of the health care received by the uninsured costs them nothing.

  • Yeah you guys are pretty dumb down there.

  • im not close to being rich and i have good healthcare

  • american vote BUSH...

    american killed JOnh lennon

    american killed the Indians

    american drop atomic bomb over a defeated country...

    ameriacns shits over kioto protocol...

    america shits over ONU...

    WHO IS THE IGNORANT ?

  • The americans thinks that this is the best aircraft in the world

  • dude i dont have medical LOL

  • Sonic boom happens when a object breaks the speed of sound (about 330 meters per second), It's what makes a whip crack (the tip of the whip travels faster than the speed of sound)

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    Choi CHECHECHE WTF does that mean twodpuppet

  • Alvinabejuro, a sonic boom is a visual effect produced by an aircraft exceeding the speed of sound. It kind of looks like a explosion wrapped around the airplane, not to mention how loud it is.

  • a sonic boom is what you here mhen a plane flys by faster then sound well its the sound the plane makes

  • all teh sound waves are usually on front of around and behind teh plane but as u approch the speed of sound then the start to gather at the front and when u pass the speed of sound u break through them all so everyone u fly past will hear a loud noise known as a sonic boom as u pass

  • simply put the air can't get out the way fast enough so u push it much like lighting pushes air as it makes its descent and u get thunder.the same sound a plane makes when this happens.

  • U just go fucking fast...

  • this aint the auroro the auroro doesnt use liquid fuel so there wouldnt be a fuel thank never mind eleven

  • Be sure to vote for John McCain for president. He is best for the country.

  • mach 6 is six times the speed of sound