Crash of the XB-70
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It wasn't Walker's fault. He followed orders from the General Electric representative who was coordinating this photo shoot. The GE rep, who had no piloting knowledge, instructed Walker to fly closer to the Valkyrie in order to get the shot he needed.
The photo shoot by GE was intended to start a marketing program showing all of the aircraft at the air base of origin that used GE engines.
When Walker accepted orders, his F-104 was sucked into the XB-70's tail because of the large wake.
kinshasaAPP 1 month ago
Wow, the truth revealed. Just, ... wow.
Capt777harris 2 months ago
"I was running center scheduling at the Air Force Flight Test Center in June of 1967."
I hope he meant 1966.
ignoblius 4 months ago
In his book Chuck Yeager said Walker was not qualified to fly in FORMATION with the B-70 for the photo shoot, which was the mission that day. Right before the accident while flying formation he told NASA ground control he strongly objected to the photo shoot as very dangerous and uneeded. I think the old man in this video meant formation flying, not chase flying.
USAmerican100 5 months ago
Back to the point. The man said that Walker wasn't qualified to fly chase on the B-70. That's the point. You tried to make a sweeping generalization that he was a qualified chase pilot, period, and I tried to clarify by saying that we all know how qualified our hero Jow Walker was. But as THIS man says, he wasn't qualified for the particular mission at hand. Plausible. That was an oversight and it cost dearly.
JetMechMA 5 months ago
@SoloPilot6: Or do you think we spend all that time and money -- and lives -- testing planes that we already know everything about . . ?
JM: That's right. They already knew everything about it. An aircraft of that size is a flying SYSTEM...not just an airplane. The testing is about seeing how well integrated the SYSTEM is. NOT about aerodynamics. As you can see, the aerodynamics went Mach 3 right out of the box. I guess they knew what they were doing with their slide rules, wouldn't you say?
JetMechMA 5 months ago
@JetMechMA Gee, JetMech, you think maybe that's why they are called "EXPERIMENTAL" aircraft? That they build them and see how well they fly?
Or do you think we spend all that time and money -- and lives -- testing planes that we already know everything about . . ?
DOH!
SoloPilot6 5 months ago
After seeing this video I talked to a couple of people that were involved in the XB-70 test program or had extensive knowledge of it. I can now say without doubt that this story is completely and utterly bogus.
Specifically, one respondent noted that Walker had "previously flown chase for the XB-70 nine times, eight of those missions in an F-104"
That directly contradicts the claims made here, and as Walker's B-70 chase flights are a matter of historical record, this video is wrong. Period.
MMfromthenorth 5 months ago
@SoloPilot6 If they didn't know about the aerodynamics of the new wing shape, ....how did they design it? Doh!
JetMechMA 6 months ago
@JetMechMA Well, let's just pretend that my having been an experimental test pilot since the 1970s, having designed a couple of homebuilt planes and having built or helped built a couple of dozen of various types gives me some slight understanding about airplanes, flying and aerodynamics. AV/2 had a different wing shape -- thus different flow characteristics -- than AV/1, and they don't even have a full set of charts for THAT plane, with years' more study before it was retired.
SoloPilot6 6 months ago 2