XB-70 1950's

[OC Mike]

***Warning, no Boating Content***
This Bomber was developed in the 50's.....
Faster than most fighters...

 

[Bigbore500r]

The fateful crash....

 

[Q4mtxUS]

I saw this in Dayton 8-10 years ago. Very impressive it was.

I worked for Rockwell Int. on the B-1B in Palmdale, mid eighties. I was told that some of the tooling for XB-70 was used for the B-1, which was (and still is) a cool aircraft.

 

[Blackmagic94]

It’s really a design of the 1970s as that was when they were testing it.

 

[Blackmagic94]

B-58 HUSTLER is still the boss

 

[OC Mike]

It’s really a design of the 1970s as that was when they were testing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie

 

[Hallett Dave]

It’s really a design of the 1970s as that was when they were testing it.

Actually the XB70 was tested in the mid to late 60s.

I grew up at Edwards AFB from 1959 to 1968 when I graduated from Desert High School.

I knew two of the pilots and their families, Col Joe Cotton and Col Fitz Fulton, both deceased now.

In 2004 after a Desert High School reunion that I organized, Col Cotton hand delivered to my house a model of the XB70 autographed by himself and Col Fulton.

I may have the last personally autographed model of the XB70.

I believe Col Fulton and Col Cotton flew the last flight of the XB70 delivering the 'white beast' to the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio.

Exciting times growing up at Edwards AFB and later working as a Radar Mission Controller and Airspace Manager from 1981 until I retired in 2017.

 

[Hallett Dave]

B-58 HUSTLER is still the boss

I believe deceased Col Fulton still has a payload to altitude record for the B58 Hustler.
That was an awesome high altitude supersonic bomber!

 

[wsuwrhr]

Built with a slide rule.

When we built and got shit done.