North American XB-70 Valkyrie

[ChrycoDUDE]

Awesome bird developed by USAF.
Unfortunately was made obsolete in a very short period of time by the ICBM. It was fast enough to rip some of the paint off it's fuselage and control surfaces. One of the test planes crashed desert during a test flight when an F 104 chase plane accidently rolled over the back end and clipped one of it's vertical stabilizers.
(Think it was an F104, maybe not)

 

[oldbee]

USAF museum outside of Dayton,Oh. has one; pretty amazing bird.

 

[Budnicks]

Really wild space age looking plane

 

[ChrycoDUDE]

Yeh it's cool.

 

[oldbee]

Although I though I think the SR-71 was fastest of all. Less than 1hr from Calif. to D.C. with a slowdown around Cincinnati for landing in D.C.!

 

[ChrycoDUDE]

Perhaps the Blackbird was; I don't know. The Valkryie was no slouch either.

 

[68gtxman]

I saw that bird in 1984 (?) at the USAF Museum in Dayton and it was parked outdoors. It was still awesome!!! Such a huge plane to fly that fast. It is still my all time favorite plane with the SR-71 a close second. I'm so glad that it is indoors now. Too many planes have succumbed to weather damage already.

 

[YY1]

I regularly ate lunch and flew model airplanes underneath that one at the AF Museum during my MANY trips there as a kid. I lived about 5 blocks away, as the crow flies but had to walk 3/4 of the perimeter to get in. Probably went a half dozen times each summer from when I was 11 to about 16. Place across from the main gate has the BEST fries.

 

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[Bladecutter]

Only 2 ever built. I'm not big on turbines, but this a Beautiful airplane....imo prettier than the SR-71

 

[Bruzilla]

Although I though I think the SR-71 was fastest of all. Less than 1hr from Calif. to D.C. with a slowdown around Cincinnati for landing in D.C.!

I remember being on a mission way back when, and an SR-71 suffered some casualty off the coast of Japan, and they declared for an emergency landing at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. Normally you land at the closest field, but they were going so fast they wouldn't be slow enough to safely land until they hit Hawaii.

 

[Bladecutter]

How about dead sticking the shuttle to a 270 knot touchdown?
But carrier landings take the money,,,,180 mph approaches to a bobbing postage stamp, 150 mph slamdowns to deck...Solid Brass!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Only 2 ever built. I'm not big on turbines, but this a Beautiful airplane....imo prettier than the SR-71

Actually 3 were built
Enough parts for more but you will not find that info anywhere.....

Look up BlackStar