А ещё кто-то сомневается что ту-144 спасаясь от столкновением с "МИРАЖем" ушел в штопор на авиашоу в Ля-бурже ?... Французы 10 лет назад признали , что "Мираж" пересек трассу . и на старых видео ( не на всех !) его видно .
In oppose that is written in the beginning of video Russian SAM missile system was another anti bomber weapon, and it was they that causes the end of program of XB-70, and the threath was confirmed by knock out a U2 in 1960.
@gumbyistella Never mind that it was already done with flying before the Concorde even flew. But hey, lets not let continuity get in the way of things.
Some people are comparing this to Concord. Why? Concord was a passenger airliner with a body large enough to take a lot of people, whereas the XB-70 was mostly engine and wing, with just a little body on the front. It wasn't large enough to be a practical airliner.
@Jacksack123b the USAF had only two XB-70's one crash when it collided with a chase plane which i think was an F-104.it was sucked into the XB-70 then flipped over the XB-70.. on its way over it collided with the Bomber & the Bomber went down & if i remember correctly one of the bomber pilots did survive .
@f39eagle2 Yes.. You're correct... There were two air vehicles... Tail numbers 20001 and 20207... There was only one difference between the two aircraft. The second vehicle (20207) had an extra 5 degree dihedral added to increase stability...
The plane that 20207 hit was indeed an F-104, it was piloted by Joe Walker, an experienced test pilot who had just completed a stint in North American's X-15 program.
The surviving Xb pilot was Al White. His co-pilot Carl Cross died along with Walker
Too Bad those fighters escorting the Valkeryie during her second test flight got sucked in the Valkeryies Turbine Engine Draft. Had they not been escorting the Valkeryie she might have still been with us today and those pilots wouldn't have lost there lives. That is the reason it never entered service.
@AnnaAnnaYes Those men were increadably brave, but their generals underestimates how powerful those engines were. I wish the Arm Chair Generals were a lot more careful were their men back then, Its kinda easy to see that a plane that powerful could create that draft
Honestly the 50's and 60's were the peak of aviation technology. Everything has gone down hill since. Might be improved and more digital stuff and more efficient but. How many memorable aircraft are going to be made in the next decade? All weve got for from the start of this century is is a380.
Wish the skys were full of such engineering glory such as this plane.
Mig 25 Fox bat...we found out russia bullshited on that plane when Victor Belenko defected from russia..It could not fly 100,000 feet maybe 80,000 mach2.7 is all it could do... ...Engines had to be changed ....victor Belenko sd the engineas would fry at mach3..lol.The SR71 Black bird was never touched by the fox bat so what does that tell u
The mig-25rb was repeatedly clocked over the Sinai using Isreali radars at mach 3.2 if it detected enemy fighter attempting to intercept. It was not maneuverable, but it could achieve those mach numbers.
As a young person in the early sixties, the XB-70 was so exciting to me. It still turns out to be my favorite plane of all time. So beautiful and graceful and...well, u know..
Chuck Yeager broke Mach 1 after the americans proposed a sharing of supersonic technology between USA and UK. Being the trusting fools we are we said sure no problem. The americans came over and had a damn good look at all our best tech. When it came time for us to arrange the return visit nobody in the USA would answer the phone and then magically the Bell X1 appeared looking almost identical to our protoype except it had a crappy rocket engine instead of a jet engine.
@uncleezra1 What you are seeing in this old footage is caused by the lower resolution cameras of the time. Valkyrie was actually, according to the pilots that flew it, a very good plane. It did have a few issues at speed, but they were worked out. This was 1960- 69. This sort of speed was a new concept. Mach three was above any other aircraft's capabilities of the day, far above. Except for the other highly secret aircraft under development at the same time. You know it now as the SR-71.
Keep in mind at the same time the Navy had developed the Polaris system. Thus the bomber became secondary to the success of the Nuke strike triad. This plus the need by LBJ to fund a war, the war on poverty, a space program, Nuclear carriers & 50 other things makes this a budget slash item. We could not do everything. Just look at the UK today trying to fund 2 lousy carriers by slashing most of the Fleet air Arm to fund it?
Just another of many other REALLY capable weapons systems that was canceled by the US politicians stupidity. I don't know how it happens but it seems like every time a real good with really good performances weapons system appears, it seems like the American politicians have a reflex of simply kill it... I wonder why they do that.
@kaelis4U The XB-70 was in no way a copy of the CF-105. It wasn't even the same type of aircraft (a large mach 3 strategic bomber vs. an interceptor). I can't think of any design element from the CF-105 that was copied on the XB-70.
Look here kids, I am now a senior citizen. However, back in the day, I worked for the Department of Defense for over 30 years. The XB-70 was more or less a SST Bomber. More I suppose, but unfortunately, the B-70's time had come and gone before it was ever put into production. Still my favorite plane of the era.
"It's real sad this awesome plane didn't make it."
This is where the Aurora came from whattaya mean it didn't make it?
The US strike force bomber, The Aurora has been flying secret missions since the cold war.... much faster than the Valkyrie so fast it had to be operated unmanned when pushed to it's limits.
The X-B70 was an interesting plane,but,it was a plagued aircraft,due to cost overruns and freakish mishaps,it even sucked a pursuit plane in it's intakes and crashing. Still , it was the ultimate cold war strategic weapon of the late 60's and 70's,outside of ICBMs of course.
@jay55also It didn't suck the chase plane (F-104 it was) into its intakes, the strong vorticies of its wing sucked the F-104 over the top when it got too close, taking off its vertical tails, both planes crashed.
@schumifan78 Ha ha ha ha,thanks,it's been so long ago,I do remember it was a starfighter that collided with the XB-70,but memory does seem to warp accuracy of the mind,
Being Fercely Anti American (For more Reasons than i would ever be able to fit on this) I usually would NEVER complement anything to do with them (As a matter of Principle), That said the XB-70 is a Beautiful Aircraft (Along with the Lockheed Martin SR-71 "Blackbird") As beautiful as our "BAC TSR-2 Eagle" (Mach 2.1/2+ Nuclear Armed Interdictor first Flown in 1966)
To answer your questions, no, it never went into service with any armed force. And the wingtips fold down so that the entire aircraft stays inside the shock cone.
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Big fast and could cross the atlantic in less than 2 hours, and could reach 70,000ft. If the cold war ever got hot, these would have been all over moscow and the USSR could have done nothing about it, until they made the MiG-25, and later the MiG-31, with these new defences, America focused on another entry into russian airspace as the existing one had been blocked, then came stealth developments.
@baron494 not even close, this was flying long before concorde was even finished being planned and was retired before concorde even flew. nevermind that this is a completely different design and a bomber instead of airliner. the only things in common are the delta wing and supersonic speeds, but even those are drastically different. concorde actually borrowed several technologies that were developed in the xb-70 program.
my theory is that the Valkyrie was NEVER intended to be operational--rather a research project"...but decided to scare the shit out of the USSR while they were at it..lol, it worked like a charm LOL.
@iflymig25 No, it like many other projects got cut due to budget cuts. Same thing occurred in the UK at the same time. The real problem, was the SAM made high level bombing no longer viable. It did scare the USSR into making the MIG 25 to catch B-70's.
@WALTERBROADDUS Yes, it did scared the soviets into making the MiG-25 and this simply contradicts those that say the B-70 would've been an easy target for soviet SAMs. If it would've been so, the soviets would've never felt threaten by it and would've never built the MiG-25 as a response.
@klnine concorde flew march of '69, the valkyrie was retired feb. '69 (first flew in september of '64). i think you might want to check your dates, they didnt even start building the prototype concordes until '65. i love concorde, but the valk came first.
@klnine This aircraft was developed in 58-59, the program was canceled in 1961, due to the development of high altitude Russian interceptors. LONG before Concorde was even on paper. Only two were built and continued as high speed high altitude test platforms until one crash after a midair collision. The other is on display at the Air and Space museum. Valkyrie last flew Feb. 1969. Again, BEFORE Concorde. If anything, Concorde engineers "borrowed much ' from Valkyrie.
Wrong. Its at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio. Been there since about 72. and now inside. When I was little in 1974 it was outside. But its the biggest jet bomber ever built. Only the B36 with its immense wingspan is bigger. Its quite humbling thinking that Harrison Storms developed this long before it was really feasible. Slide rules still work.
@comradeboris which was in turn developed from stolen technology from the 50's. namely the TSR2. with arguably higher processing power than the lunar module and over 10 years earlier too..
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I like how we just keep putting new exteriors on old systems and call it new... c'mon, we all know that the propulsion systems used here are no longer the direction we need to be going in. The next phase of our development in this field has to come on the wings of a propulsion system which is powered on intent... lol, I'm srs
Hi Guys! XB-70 a laboratory . However it was in many ways the design teaser for many to follow. TU-144 was based on stolen blueprints of the Concorde, while in the R&D phase. The airfoil of the Concorde could not be copied by the Russians as can be clearly seen and because of that it got the retractable canards. It flew! The Concorde , however, has proven that supersonic airtravel can even be profitable and safe.
Eventually all planes end up on the ground... one way or another;-)
Best Damn Bird of its Time! along with the SR-71.
Too bad our Industry still hasn't delivered a Good large civilian use aircraft or where is our National AeroSpace Plan (NASP) for LA to Tokyo in 2 1/2 hours.
@spboike Valkyrie was actually within the concepts of SST being considered at the time, we would have been ahead of concorde & tu-144. difference? every time they took the xb-70 up they had to pay big sums for broken windows, and farmers complained the booms were disturbing breeding of livestock. Culminating with Sonic Boom Tests of Oklahoma City(see wiki) as operation mostly over land US SST was dead. big plane=big booms.
what was that aircraft that looked like a futuristic destroyer/airplane that was decommisioned due to lack of funds. i know its real cause i saw it somewhere. i think they just made one prototype
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yea, though the designation of XB-70 denotes the aircraft as experimental, hence the X. Interesting design and concept, though later other aircraft such as the U-2, SR-71, F-117, and B-2 proved far more capable and less problimatic.
Although it never actually been fielded, the XB-70's development was later incorporated into the A-12 Avenger which in turn would be converted to the famous SR-71 Blackbird...
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The B-70 suffered from the same design flaw that the TU-144 SST suffered. The engines cannot be clumped together in the fashion that they are, they need to be seperated, thus, the Concords 2+2 design. The TU-144 suffered a crash in Paris I believe, and, after an investigation, this was found to be the case. Ii is rumored that the British gave Russia bad intel. on this when they where spying on the Concord project. The B-70 would have been far to exspensive to re-design.
@TheSteelerfan74 the 144 had dual two engine clusters the same as the concorde, they were just further inboard on the wings, not the same configuration as the XB-70
@comradeboris . The original TU144's 4 engines were configured like the XB70 but Tupolev never solved the problem of air intake. Tupolev had to completely redesign the TU144 because of this&other problems.They moved the engines apart but used turbo fans which are longer than turbo jets, which Concorde had & wouldn't fit on the outside the landing gear. They used a clumsy arrangement with an engine either side of the landing gear which protruded from the middle of the dual engine clusters.
I am thinking of getting X-plane V10, any opinions?
HotElectonePlayer 3 days ago
To the uploader's question how this video got over a million views: It's simple, people LOVE the XB-70!!!
ironian 3 days ago
А ещё кто-то сомневается что ту-144 спасаясь от столкновением с "МИРАЖем" ушел в штопор на авиашоу в Ля-бурже ?... Французы 10 лет назад признали , что "Мираж" пересек трассу . и на старых видео ( не на всех !) его видно .
100copok 4 days ago
Respondendo sua pergunta. Vim pela música!
AlfaAugustoDuArte 3 weeks ago
Yeah i saw this movie, it is called Firefox.
MrBlewvane 1 month ago
@kyal987654321 She has a fat ass though!
ThaiEgho 1 month ago
every vid with this plane in has the same music
qwerty1352461 2 months ago
big bend of wing, makes collision in the landing if goes wrong
winstondeaver 2 months ago
They should have done better at copying the TU144
merlyn1900 2 months ago
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442hoeky 1 month ago
Sexy plane !
Risenangelicaegis 2 months ago
Recorded on X plane
supercooldisco 2 months ago
yup but French invented ram jets in 1913 but could not produce due to material shortage far before any other country.
motorguzzi100 3 months ago
@motorguzzi100 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
TheAmericanFreeBird 2 months ago
If I not know better, it looks like Firefox
arafat88ryu 3 months ago 2
In oppose that is written in the beginning of video Russian SAM missile system was another anti bomber weapon, and it was they that causes the end of program of XB-70, and the threath was confirmed by knock out a U2 in 1960.
MrPoiuytrew 4 months ago 2
i think the romulans had those first
rostant999 4 months ago 2
nvm now its the SR-71 or F117 ;)
fifi85100 4 months ago
um 144 tploft ? there top my frist unlik most con ppl
starionnsw 4 months ago
concord much?
gumbyistella 4 months ago
@gumbyistella Never mind that it was already done with flying before the Concorde even flew. But hey, lets not let continuity get in the way of things.
ReubenHorsley 4 months ago
Dear santa....
kiril7330 5 months ago
Valkyre never went beyond test prototype, but it eas a very brave design.
aeromodelar 5 months ago
@aeromodelar designed by the same people who designed the Canadian Avro Arrow
MrFangole 4 months ago
Whata bitchin' airplane! Pity we didn't build a whole fleet of them. :-(
terentii 5 months ago
concorde ruled we are going backwards by building big slow ass jets that take for ever to travel round the fucking world
ragasdapper 6 months ago
Basically its Firefox ;-)
SKYBAT00 6 months ago
for sparta
Mampfie 6 months ago
Avro arrow would have been better
EthanD1997 7 months ago
@EthanD1997 yeah! I know the Arrow, the leyendary Arrow....
xfujikix 5 months ago
Pity there is only one brief bit of film of the real thing.
3Deity 9 months ago
Shit that looks like something off star trek
SpinoOfTheDino 9 months ago
head like a fookin trophey
andytheweb 9 months ago
Concord was based on The Fairy Delta of the Fifties check that out
1stMrSceptical 11 months ago
Some people are comparing this to Concord. Why? Concord was a passenger airliner with a body large enough to take a lot of people, whereas the XB-70 was mostly engine and wing, with just a little body on the front. It wasn't large enough to be a practical airliner.
Bubo25 11 months ago 3
It's awesome. Look at the engineering.
ZombieBrainsForLunch 11 months ago
i think they 3 of these and then 1 crashed midair another crashed on takeoff and the last one was ina museum
Jacksack123b 11 months ago
@Jacksack123b the USAF had only two XB-70's one crash when it collided with a chase plane which i think was an F-104.it was sucked into the XB-70 then flipped over the XB-70.. on its way over it collided with the Bomber & the Bomber went down & if i remember correctly one of the bomber pilots did survive .
f39eagle2 11 months ago
@f39eagle2 Yes.. You're correct... There were two air vehicles... Tail numbers 20001 and 20207... There was only one difference between the two aircraft. The second vehicle (20207) had an extra 5 degree dihedral added to increase stability...
The plane that 20207 hit was indeed an F-104, it was piloted by Joe Walker, an experienced test pilot who had just completed a stint in North American's X-15 program.
The surviving Xb pilot was Al White. His co-pilot Carl Cross died along with Walker
parkaoz 11 months ago
say what u want , this smart guy has got almost 1 . 5 million clickings ,,bravo
vega1448 1 year ago
Too Bad those fighters escorting the Valkeryie during her second test flight got sucked in the Valkeryies Turbine Engine Draft. Had they not been escorting the Valkeryie she might have still been with us today and those pilots wouldn't have lost there lives. That is the reason it never entered service.
KillforaKlondike 1 year ago
@KillforaKlondike True,i know the brother of one of those pilots who was killed escorting
the Valkyrie. His name is Virgil Crump,and he is a retired USDA Food Inspector.He still
grieves.
AnnaAnnaYes 1 year ago
@AnnaAnnaYes Those men were increadably brave, but their generals underestimates how powerful those engines were. I wish the Arm Chair Generals were a lot more careful were their men back then, Its kinda easy to see that a plane that powerful could create that draft
KillforaKlondike 1 year ago
@KillforaKlondike The technology that created the Valkyrie,could possibly be used for
commercial transport today.Today's missles would destroy one.But a 2-hour flight from
N.Y to L.A would be very attractive!
AnnaAnnaYes 1 year ago
looks like a klingon destroyer
SuperNeckerman 1 year ago
Honestly the 50's and 60's were the peak of aviation technology. Everything has gone down hill since. Might be improved and more digital stuff and more efficient but. How many memorable aircraft are going to be made in the next decade? All weve got for from the start of this century is is a380.
Wish the skys were full of such engineering glory such as this plane.
suckmysilencer747 1 year ago
@suckmysilencer747 Why don't you check Russian Su 37 Terminator and then post somenthing depressing?
BarbaShime 1 year ago
When you hear this stirring music, do you think:
1. Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"
2. Apocalypse Now "Music to kill NVA / VC by"
3. Elmer Fudd "Kill the Wabbit"
NickB1967 1 year ago
Mig 25 Fox bat...we found out russia bullshited on that plane when Victor Belenko defected from russia..It could not fly 100,000 feet maybe 80,000 mach2.7 is all it could do... ...Engines had to be changed ....victor Belenko sd the engineas would fry at mach3..lol.The SR71 Black bird was never touched by the fox bat so what does that tell u
99jiujitsu 1 year ago
@99jiujitsu
The mig-25rb was repeatedly clocked over the Sinai using Isreali radars at mach 3.2 if it detected enemy fighter attempting to intercept. It was not maneuverable, but it could achieve those mach numbers.
52111centrumcz 1 month ago
@52111centrumcz It was generally believed that the foxbat production was pushed ahead exclusively to met the threat of the B-70.
DomDeVitto 1 month ago
@DomDeVitto Oh, and Russian pilots who flew it said it could do 3.2, but only under perfect conditions.
DomDeVitto 1 month ago
As a young person in the early sixties, the XB-70 was so exciting to me. It still turns out to be my favorite plane of all time. So beautiful and graceful and...well, u know..
StellarBlue1 1 year ago
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Chuck Yeager broke Mach 1 after the americans proposed a sharing of supersonic technology between USA and UK. Being the trusting fools we are we said sure no problem. The americans came over and had a damn good look at all our best tech. When it came time for us to arrange the return visit nobody in the USA would answer the phone and then magically the Bell X1 appeared looking almost identical to our protoype except it had a crappy rocket engine instead of a jet engine.
reloaded25 1 year ago
Look at the way the control wheel is shaking during rollout for takeoff. Was this aircraft really that unstable on the ground?
uncleezra1 1 year ago
@uncleezra1 What you are seeing in this old footage is caused by the lower resolution cameras of the time. Valkyrie was actually, according to the pilots that flew it, a very good plane. It did have a few issues at speed, but they were worked out. This was 1960- 69. This sort of speed was a new concept. Mach three was above any other aircraft's capabilities of the day, far above. Except for the other highly secret aircraft under development at the same time. You know it now as the SR-71.
Nicodemus98 1 year ago
it seems like the soviet supersonic plane... how dare those buggers?!
svenska334 1 year ago
If I recall, doesn't India have a similar plane in their Army?
TechnicalFreak 1 year ago
My dad flew one of these during the Civil War
drudger6666 1 year ago 2
@drudger6666
hahaha XD
starfoxhero 1 year ago
is this thing Klingon?
miturbinizdurdy 1 year ago 63
@miturbinizdurdy no, is the grandfather of firefox.
echozgus 2 months ago
@miturbinizdurdy Nope. It's american ! :D
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kopellhinex 1 month ago
Keep in mind at the same time the Navy had developed the Polaris system. Thus the bomber became secondary to the success of the Nuke strike triad. This plus the need by LBJ to fund a war, the war on poverty, a space program, Nuclear carriers & 50 other things makes this a budget slash item. We could not do everything. Just look at the UK today trying to fund 2 lousy carriers by slashing most of the Fleet air Arm to fund it?
WALTERBROADDUS 1 year ago
Just another of many other REALLY capable weapons systems that was canceled by the US politicians stupidity. I don't know how it happens but it seems like every time a real good with really good performances weapons system appears, it seems like the American politicians have a reflex of simply kill it... I wonder why they do that.
StiviGun1 1 year ago
that is so creepy, I saw something like that fly over my camp.
xxDARKD3ATHxx 1 year ago
An ugly copy of the A. V. Roe CF105 Arrow.
kaelis4U 1 year ago
@kaelis4U I'm assuming you think "Delta" and think they're all alike, yes? That's the only way you could think the two designs are remotely similar.
proditor 1 year ago
@kaelis4U The XB-70 was in no way a copy of the CF-105. It wasn't even the same type of aircraft (a large mach 3 strategic bomber vs. an interceptor). I can't think of any design element from the CF-105 that was copied on the XB-70.
LeopoldPlumtree 1 year ago
What is the Song?
hgfggg1 1 year ago
@hgfggg1 Ride of the Valkyrie
XboxPhantom 1 year ago
@hgfggg1 Ride of the Vlkyries by Wagner
heterohighelf 1 year ago
The problem with the XB-70 was that it had no place to put the bombs.
monkeyman1140 1 year ago
@monkeyman1140 Not true, the Delta bow between the engines is where the bombay was supposed to be
sakoshooter48 1 year ago
Shame there wasn't more footage of the aircraft in th air
Shame it wasn't like the YF=12/SR71 aircraft
Blackbirdsr71g 1 year ago
Shame there wasn't more footage of the aircraft in th air
Blackbirdsr71g 1 year ago
Look here kids, I am now a senior citizen. However, back in the day, I worked for the Department of Defense for over 30 years. The XB-70 was more or less a SST Bomber. More I suppose, but unfortunately, the B-70's time had come and gone before it was ever put into production. Still my favorite plane of the era.
StellarBlue1 1 year ago
baron494..my god your comment is such bastardly...i can;t believe jerks like you exist
jeetendrag10acc2 1 year ago
"It's real sad this awesome plane didn't make it."
This is where the Aurora came from whattaya mean it didn't make it?
The US strike force bomber, The Aurora has been flying secret missions since the cold war.... much faster than the Valkyrie so fast it had to be operated unmanned when pushed to it's limits.
lostbuffalo 1 year ago
klingon d7 lol
trimi38 1 year ago
It's real sad this awesome plane didn't make it. Thanks to it, the russians, copied
the design.and I am sure the concorde used the design. we still build better plane
then anyone else. RIP Valkyrie for you did what no other bomber will ever do. Over
mach 3.
Psyche777able 1 year ago
Didn't enter production because of budget costs.
AlfieWilRus 1 year ago
I saw this fly as a child, the sonic boom took one's breath away
50asdfg 1 year ago
Goldorak Go !!!
Shin0u 1 year ago
Fuck me it's Firefox! lol
Remember that film?
phuturephunk01 1 year ago
where's the part when the mig-25 shot it hahaha ^_* .
desertghostsa 1 year ago
The X-B70 was an interesting plane,but,it was a plagued aircraft,due to cost overruns and freakish mishaps,it even sucked a pursuit plane in it's intakes and crashing. Still , it was the ultimate cold war strategic weapon of the late 60's and 70's,outside of ICBMs of course.
jay55also 1 year ago
@jay55also It didn't suck the chase plane (F-104 it was) into its intakes, the strong vorticies of its wing sucked the F-104 over the top when it got too close, taking off its vertical tails, both planes crashed.
schumifan78 1 year ago
@schumifan78 Ha ha ha ha,thanks,it's been so long ago,I do remember it was a starfighter that collided with the XB-70,but memory does seem to warp accuracy of the mind,
jay55also 1 year ago 2
@jay55also That it was. The russians even began to develope the Foxbat interceptor to try and counter the bomber. They were that scared of it.
swoodard4 1 year ago
floydfreak63: That would be a Klingon D6 or D7 Battlecruiser.
codifex 1 year ago
OMG it's a Romulan Battle Cruiser. (Now some fuckin' Trekkie is gonna correct the shit outta me, lol)
floydfreak63 1 year ago 2
It's amazing how a nuke was let off in 1945, but a nintendo wasn't launched until the 80s. We're one year away from robotic domination.
jayrellz 1 year ago
reminds me of ultraman movie..
taufan8687 1 year ago
From the front it actually looks a bit like an old klingon warship
Hrubjub 1 year ago
its a shame the program ended so badly. :(
tl,dr: photoshoot make cool plane go boom.
Cullenhi 1 year ago
This beast can go up to Mach 3 for 40 long minutes until every drop of fuel runs out!
echelon737 1 year ago
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Being Fercely Anti American (For more Reasons than i would ever be able to fit on this) I usually would NEVER complement anything to do with them (As a matter of Principle), That said the XB-70 is a Beautiful Aircraft (Along with the Lockheed Martin SR-71 "Blackbird") As beautiful as our "BAC TSR-2 Eagle" (Mach 2.1/2+ Nuclear Armed Interdictor first Flown in 1966)
TSR1989FF 1 year ago
To answer your questions, no, it never went into service with any armed force. And the wingtips fold down so that the entire aircraft stays inside the shock cone.
RaptorF22V 1 year ago
Two questions: 1) was it ever put into any active military service and 2) whats with the extreme anhedral on the outter wing panels?
everythinguwanted 1 year ago
This would have bombed the bastards back to the stone age.
felixlinquist 1 year ago 2
hail to the valkyrie
9pbr 1 year ago
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Big fast and could cross the atlantic in less than 2 hours, and could reach 70,000ft. If the cold war ever got hot, these would have been all over moscow and the USSR could have done nothing about it, until they made the MiG-25, and later the MiG-31, with these new defences, America focused on another entry into russian airspace as the existing one had been blocked, then came stealth developments.
giantafricansnails 1 year ago
This was a classic bomber althouth the plan had been cancelled.
kuluku 1 year ago
Did this turn in to the b1b lancer or anything else past the experimental stages?
TheMohawkNinja 1 year ago
Now I see where they got the design for Firefox from.
Apophisguard 1 year ago
Looks like an ugly concord.
Sp33dyD3m0n 1 year ago
Theres a plane that looks just like this one at Daytons Ohio's Air Force museum But I can't remember the name of it but It was an X plane!
Toothpick356 1 year ago
@Toothpick356 thats one of the two that were built.
One was invloved in a mid-air collision the other is at Dayton
BladeRunner21577 1 year ago
@Toothpick356 xb70...I saw it in like 1970 at Dayton
lowlandr 1 year ago
looks just like a klingon ship...
cl0m 1 year ago
Romulan war bird. Sweet!
aetechllc 1 year ago
sounds like that williams st punk doesnt it?
:> - + ;
jutubaeh 1 year ago
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they stole the concept of the concorde
baron494 1 year ago
@baron494 not even close, this was flying long before concorde was even finished being planned and was retired before concorde even flew. nevermind that this is a completely different design and a bomber instead of airliner. the only things in common are the delta wing and supersonic speeds, but even those are drastically different. concorde actually borrowed several technologies that were developed in the xb-70 program.
comradeboris 1 year ago 45
@comradeboris ,
my theory is that the Valkyrie was NEVER intended to be operational--rather a research project"...but decided to scare the shit out of the USSR while they were at it..lol, it worked like a charm LOL.
iflymig25 1 year ago
@iflymig25 No, it like many other projects got cut due to budget cuts. Same thing occurred in the UK at the same time. The real problem, was the SAM made high level bombing no longer viable. It did scare the USSR into making the MIG 25 to catch B-70's.
WALTERBROADDUS 1 year ago
@WALTERBROADDUS Yes, it did scared the soviets into making the MiG-25 and this simply contradicts those that say the B-70 would've been an easy target for soviet SAMs. If it would've been so, the soviets would've never felt threaten by it and would've never built the MiG-25 as a response.
StiviGun1 1 year ago
@comradeboris Wrong way around stud ! Concorde Flew in 69, based on a britsh bomber you were still screwing around with pistons.
The USA stole the fuel trim system of concorde for their supersonic bombers !..amongst other things ! Check out TSR2 stud !
klnine 1 year ago
@klnine concorde flew march of '69, the valkyrie was retired feb. '69 (first flew in september of '64). i think you might want to check your dates, they didnt even start building the prototype concordes until '65. i love concorde, but the valk came first.
comradeboris 1 year ago 33
@comradeboris yep, valk used the bended cockpit which was taken over by concorde
MilkTeaOriginal 2 months ago
@klnine This aircraft was developed in 58-59, the program was canceled in 1961, due to the development of high altitude Russian interceptors. LONG before Concorde was even on paper. Only two were built and continued as high speed high altitude test platforms until one crash after a midair collision. The other is on display at the Air and Space museum. Valkyrie last flew Feb. 1969. Again, BEFORE Concorde. If anything, Concorde engineers "borrowed much ' from Valkyrie.
Nicodemus98 1 year ago
Wrong. Its at the Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio. Been there since about 72. and now inside. When I was little in 1974 it was outside. But its the biggest jet bomber ever built. Only the B36 with its immense wingspan is bigger. Its quite humbling thinking that Harrison Storms developed this long before it was really feasible. Slide rules still work.
mrFalconlem 1 year ago
@comradeboris which was in turn developed from stolen technology from the 50's. namely the TSR2. with arguably higher processing power than the lunar module and over 10 years earlier too..
antonyaiken 9 months ago
@baron494 DUMBASS
xXMcEpsilonXx 1 year ago
@baron494
The XB70 was designed and built in the late 1950s.
disturbedone5009 1 year ago
@baron494 You know nothing about aircraft. Every plane is entitled to have delta wings and it hardly looks like concorde.
halowraith1 1 year ago
@baron494 and you americans stole the plans ofour avro aero
kahlilANDproductions 11 months ago
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it's the flying pizza slice!
fsujci 1 year ago
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I like how we just keep putting new exteriors on old systems and call it new... c'mon, we all know that the propulsion systems used here are no longer the direction we need to be going in. The next phase of our development in this field has to come on the wings of a propulsion system which is powered on intent... lol, I'm srs
kright74 1 year ago
i think you mean Rise
IKEELYOUNOW 1 year ago
song? Awesome video
sammyflyboy 1 year ago
What a ripoff Spielberg. Your CGI is pish.
iainjm1 1 year ago
This looks alot like the Firefox from the Clint Eastwood movie and Craig Thomas books.
Kingbodybuild 1 year ago
I have seen this plane in person it's FREAKING HUGE It literally takes up an entire hanger!
GoingConstitutional 1 year ago
aaaahhh...
It totally makes sense now. al those people who ''spotted an ufo''...
dylanBBE 1 year ago
Well now we see where they got the design for the concord from.
Hashishin13 1 year ago
Hi Guys! XB-70 a laboratory . However it was in many ways the design teaser for many to follow. TU-144 was based on stolen blueprints of the Concorde, while in the R&D phase. The airfoil of the Concorde could not be copied by the Russians as can be clearly seen and because of that it got the retractable canards. It flew! The Concorde , however, has proven that supersonic airtravel can even be profitable and safe.
Eventually all planes end up on the ground... one way or another;-)
DeVizardofOZ 1 year ago
the last one is now in dayton...loved thet plane when i was a kid
animalcorvair 1 year ago
The air inlets appear big enough for a man to walk into them. I saw it at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton OH years ago.
generalripper1964 1 year ago
What a Bitchin' Airplane!
Wickedfatchance 1 year ago 2
That thing must've used up ALOT of feul!!!
SpadSopwithAce 1 year ago
this jet looks like it got steroids in it's rear end.. (;
mofogachoga 1 year ago
Best Damn Bird of its Time! along with the SR-71.
Too bad our Industry still hasn't delivered a Good large civilian use aircraft or where is our National AeroSpace Plan (NASP) for LA to Tokyo in 2 1/2 hours.
spboike 1 year ago 4
@spboike Valkyrie was actually within the concepts of SST being considered at the time, we would have been ahead of concorde & tu-144. difference? every time they took the xb-70 up they had to pay big sums for broken windows, and farmers complained the booms were disturbing breeding of livestock. Culminating with Sonic Boom Tests of Oklahoma City(see wiki) as operation mostly over land US SST was dead. big plane=big booms.
batvette 1 year ago 4
The US, after much Congressional bickering, eventually approved / built the B1 bomber instead.
stybarrow 1 year ago
thats the 50's technology ? ...damn..i wonder when will they make planes like in "avatar"..hope i will still be alive to see it
JordanianPride80 1 year ago
it makes me think about Sukhoy's T-4
both great projects with unlucky destiny...
FannieKaplan 1 year ago
that looks like the arkbird from the ace combat series.
bladiumdragon 1 year ago
funny pwanes! xD
MochiKitteh123 1 year ago
I think the XB-70 was well worth it because of what we learned from making it
Anyway what version of X-plane is this?
andoconda585 1 year ago 15
@andoconda585 this was an early copy of version 7.....v7.13 or something around there
comradeboris 1 year ago
@comradeboris so basicly all it`s missions was to drop bombs?
commanderlucifer 1 year ago
@andoconda585 I agree. The soviets would have shit their pants know they were flying.
tenorismo 1 year ago
shouldve gone into sercive
Wawaweewaj 1 year ago
what was that aircraft that looked like a futuristic destroyer/airplane that was decommisioned due to lack of funds. i know its real cause i saw it somewhere. i think they just made one prototype
Phoenixblood23 1 year ago
The front looks like a dogs head
superandy456 1 year ago
Klingon battle cruiser?
1337Exile 1 year ago
хуетотятина,а не самолёт!!!
alexeykulikov 1 year ago
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yea, though the designation of XB-70 denotes the aircraft as experimental, hence the X. Interesting design and concept, though later other aircraft such as the U-2, SR-71, F-117, and B-2 proved far more capable and less problimatic.
Kahless02 1 year ago
Although it never actually been fielded, the XB-70's development was later incorporated into the A-12 Avenger which in turn would be converted to the famous SR-71 Blackbird...
A damn good airplane, as it was :)
MoonshadowRogue 1 year ago
great video, in my opinion the XB-70 is pretty cool
B52Stratofortress1 1 year ago
looks abit like a plane called firefox from a film with clint estwood
Santara694U 1 year ago
I love that movie.
LukRacer 1 year ago
Come to Dayton, Ohio, and see it in person.
dcbprime 1 year ago
Is this a real plane?
Mrjustcommentsnovds 1 year ago
@Mrjustcommentsnovds yep.
comradeboris 1 year ago
@Mrjustcommentsnovds yes, it is on display at the Air Museum at wright patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. I recommend a visit. It's worth it....
thegreatbungholio21 1 year ago
@Mrjustcommentsnovds yes but this is a very old plane
GamesMaster1321 1 year ago
@Mrjustcommentsnovds If you go to the U.S. Airforce museum in Dayton, Ohio you can see the surviving example of the XB-70. It's huge.
kdraper2007 1 year ago
F.A.B
xfroidcorex 1 year ago
It's a Klingon Battle cruiser
bunnywillgetu 1 year ago
isn't this the firefox?
gairero 1 year ago
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The B-70 suffered from the same design flaw that the TU-144 SST suffered. The engines cannot be clumped together in the fashion that they are, they need to be seperated, thus, the Concords 2+2 design. The TU-144 suffered a crash in Paris I believe, and, after an investigation, this was found to be the case. Ii is rumored that the British gave Russia bad intel. on this when they where spying on the Concord project. The B-70 would have been far to exspensive to re-design.
TheSteelerfan74 1 year ago
@TheSteelerfan74 the 144 had dual two engine clusters the same as the concorde, they were just further inboard on the wings, not the same configuration as the XB-70
comradeboris 1 year ago
@comradeboris what song is this? I haven't heard it in years.
MacMan282 1 year ago
Richard Wagner, Flight of the Valkyrie, 1856, part of The Ring operas.
chg9389 1 year ago
@comradeboris . The original TU144's 4 engines were configured like the XB70 but Tupolev never solved the problem of air intake. Tupolev had to completely redesign the TU144 because of this&other problems.They moved the engines apart but used turbo fans which are longer than turbo jets, which Concorde had & wouldn't fit on the outside the landing gear. They used a clumsy arrangement with an engine either side of the landing gear which protruded from the middle of the dual engine clusters.
binaway 1 year ago