The americans built a plane called the valkerie (xb70 ithink) what happened?
can anyone tell me more?
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In 1959, North American Aviation was awarded a contract to build "Weapons System 110" (WS-110). On paper, the project's goals seemed insurmountable; not just the biggest craft ever to take to the skies, but is was to be the fastest as well, to cruise at 3 times the speed of sound, at a time when no plane had yet flown that fast.
In 1959, North American Aviation was awarded a contract to build "Weapons System 110" (WS-110). On paper, the project's goals seemed insurmountable; not just the biggest craft ever to take to the skies, but is was to be the fastest as well, to cruise at 3 times the speed of sound, at a time when no plane had yet flown that fast.
This is the story of the men and the machines they built to achieve the impossible.
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A f-104 flew into it wing vortex, which is a wind swirling like a tornado off the wingtips, and it threw the f-104 into the body of the XB-70.
The B-70 was canceled for two reasons: Congress was sick of paying for it after half of the billion dollar prototypes were lost, and the b-70 could be intercepted by modern US aircraft like the f-15, f-16, and f-14, so it was assumed that the russians would eventually build something that could, too.
The B-70 traveled at mach 3, which seems fast, but if an f-15 can climb to the altitude of 70,000ft in two minutes and shoot it down from head on, or the f-14 shoot it down from 25,000ft with a phoenix, or a nike shoot it down from the ground, then what's the point?
A photoshoot requested by GE had the XB70 flying formation with 4 other GE powered aircraft.
The F-104 off the RH wing tip caught the vortex and rolled 180 deg slamming upside down on center fuselage killing pilot Joe Walker instantly.
Copilot of the XB70 Carl Cross failed to eject and was killed in the XB70. Pilot Al White barely escaped and suffered a 44g impact.
The Valkerie was destroyed in an accident -- in a photo shoot for General Electric, makers of its jet engines. In the air formation were several warplanes which were powered by GE engines.
In effect, the shoot was for GE's advertising purposes, yet the US taxpayer paid about one billion dollars for the losses that day, plus the air-time to get all those jets up there.
The accident involved the close-formation collision with another warplane. The valkerie crashed, [I think with its pilots killed].[I don't recall whether the other plane was totalled or not].
Anything on this website help you?
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/blackbird_.
Cheers
Steve
Check with the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton OH, they have one.
It was built during the Cold War era to be able to fly to the USSR and bomb them in case of a real war.
I read that they cancelled it before the crash because a long-range bomber wasn't needed, since they were now able to launch missiles to the USSR.
yes i was the xb 70, as to any video footage i'm not sure,, yes there is photo footage and it was a photo-shoot, but a f104 (starfighter) got too close to one of the wingtips(left i think),, and got in the vortices created and trailing from the wingtips and got flipped across the wing and then into the verticle stabiliser, causing terminal damage to the flying control surfaces and systems related to flight control,the pilot of the f104 was killed in the collision ,the xb70 remained in stable flight initialy then departed from controlled flight and crashed i think all the crew of the bomber (xb70) were killed .the photo shoot was for press publicity pictures for manufacturer
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