XB-70 Valkyrie: America's Mach-3 Super Bomber
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2021
- The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype version of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed, deep-penetration supersonic strategic bomber for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Designed in the late 1950s by North American Aviation (NAA), the six-engined Valkyrie was capable of cruising for thousands of miles at Mach 3+ while flying at 70,000 feet (21,000 m).
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The XB-70 is definitely one of the most aircraft ever
I like how much it aircraft at mach 3...
what
@@jet6619 i think you had meant to say ''l like how this aircraft can fly at Mach 3''..
Wooosh
@@jet6619 I like how this mach 3 air Craft is.
“America’s Mach 3 Aircraft Ever Built”. I agree wholeheartedly. Undeniably, it is America’s Mach 3 Aircraft Ever Built. It Aircraft good. It Fast the Bomb, superlatively.
ya was this on purpose? it makes me feel like i am having a stroke when I read it.
@@petervanzyverden Mocking the video title :)
@@YorkshirePirate ya the title, that's what I am referring to.
IT must be the machest 3 and it aircrafts extremestly Well
The builders name is Gabriel Ever
1000% highly recommend that if you’ve never visited The USAF Museum here in Ohio it is absolutely a must visit! The XB-70 is a monster on video but in person it truly is a sight to behold in The Modern Era section of the museum. I live about 45mins from The Museum and I’ve been dozens of times in my life from field trips in school until my adult life but it’s always fun!
I agree with that. Been to Wright/Pat 3-4 times and it's very cool.
My eldest brother worked at Wright/Patterson as a civilian USAF employee late 70's/early 80's (he's a Chemical Safety Engineer) and lived in Fairborn.
I have been there twice and only saw one of the museums. Give yourselves a couple days so you can linger around the amazing machinery that our tax dollars purchased. The XB-70 brought me to tears the first time I saw it. Back then you could get close and I gave the landing gear a hug. A beautiful machine - who wouldn't love to gas it up and take it for a spin around the pattern?
If an alien doesn't kill me I will go there when I can :)
One of the most beautiful aircraft ever built. I bought and assembled a Revell plastic model of the plane in the mid-latter 1960s. Wish I still had it.
I had one too mine was by aurora. And it was already in bad shape . And it was very warped .
Designed in the 50s. Simply incredible.
CHINA INVENTED AN ANTI STEALTH QUANTUM RADAR THAT CAN EASILY DETECT US F 35 F 22 RAPTOR AND B 2 SPIRIT BOMBER STEALTH FIGHTER JETS 👉 NOW US WILL NEVER TRY TO SEND ITS SO CALLED STEALTH FIGHTER JETS INTO CHINESE AIRSPACE 😭😭😭
@@gautumbuddhabuddha8234 Let me make an evaluation:
1. Quantum technology has only been used for computer and due to quantum particles requiring a perfect condition to function properly, the quantum computer became massive and performs worse than a normal computer and require so much electricity that simply requires an industrial generator to provide such demands which largely makes it impossible for it to be used for radars with the current technology.
2. The "stealth" in stealth fighter and stealth bombers means that it prolongs the time it takes to get detected by radars and not prevent it from ever happening.
3. The US doesn't send planes into west taiwanese airspace because it is a violation of china's sovereignty, which is also the same reason why china doesn't send planes into US airspace.
4. Even if a radar can detect a stealth aircraft, radar jammer aircrafts are a thing and usually is part of a bomber convoy to reduce the chance of bombers getting shot down even further.
5. Manually aiming an anti aircraft gun is still an option you know?
6. Your understanding of quantum technology is as accurate as a holywood executive understand quantum technology.
7. That 1 like on your reply is probably yourself.
Edit:
8. You're probably just a bot
9. Stop spreading hoax
10. The US won't need to send stealth fighter jets into west taiwan because satellites can do the job of reconnaissance and send nuclear threats to keep west taiwan in check.
11. My social credit score is -1.000.000
NEVER BUY F 35
F 35 IS CALLED LIGHTENING BECAUSE IT CRASHES DUE TO LIGHTENING IN BAD WEATHER ☁️
@@gautumbuddhabuddha8234 don't need to when we can just press a button... maybe two.
@@gautumbuddhabuddha8234 China? I think you mean West Taiwan.
That thing still looks like it was wheeled out of 100 years from now. Amazing.
Non esagerare caro David è solo una copia della concorde ultimamente è finita anche quella in museo 😉 ma è bellissima senza dubbio.
Ah, no it doesn't.
It looks like it will snap in half.
Its actually a great fire starter.
Your imagination is limited.
Small wing planes are obviously fly by wire technology planes.
Enormous wing planes are obviously NOT fly by wire technology.
It looks very 60's or earlier.
@@dreyn7780 don't worry 😉 take it easy, be safe wish you all the best 😘 😊
@@dreyn7780 obvious..? Okay... I'll bite... what's obvious about fly by wire Avionics that leads you to believe that their inclusion in aircraft frames is dictated by size..?
@@alfredomaltauro Warning from Holy Bible to Humans:- The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, please repent from all your sins before Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved and thy family members from eternal Hell to eternal Heaven Amen 🙏
As a teenager, I saw a large jet flying over the area of Pittsford, Vermont. It was escorted by 3 smaller jets and all were on a slightly northwest course, which is the general direction of New York and possibly Plattsburgh AFB. To this day, I believe it was the B-70. The craft had a large delta wing design and, because of how miniscule the escorts were comparatively, and because the fuselage and nose extended far beyond the wings and had canards, it couldn't possibly have been a B-58. I was also a member of the Civil Air Patrol at the time and had studied aircraft extensively for years, making me quite familiar with a multitude of designs, fighter, bomber, and transport. The year was 1966.
@Galileo7of9 Maybe they don't, but I know what I saw. There were no other aircraft in the U.S. inventory that had any of the B-70's features. And I did know aircraft.
It's interesting that @Galileo7of9's comments have disappeared completely from this thread. Official narrative bots are all over social media and they are allowed by the platforms to do whatever they please.
My dad worked at Edward AFB and he brought me a poster of this plane when I was in 1st grade. No one believed it was a real plane when I brought the poster to school to show other kids. Later we all went on field trips to Edwards or Lockheed and were able to see it. It was so amazing to see compared to anything else. I wish I had kept that poster!
I grew up at Edwards AFB and one of the projects my dad worked on was the F-111 and it shared a hanger with the surviving prototype so was able to get a up close private walk around tour of the aircraft. The 1960's was great time to be a nerdy kid at Edwards.
I worked as a janitor for the company that had the contract in the mid 70's. Got to go in the hanger with all sorts of experimental aircraft including the X15, X29?(forward swept wings) which on other visits to Edwards I also saw fly. About a third of my working life was centered around Palmdale USAF Plant 42, Edwards, and China Lake. Did a bunch of work on the two hangers it shows the XB-70 sitting between early in the video, mostly during the B1 project. Got to watch the SR71 fly a bunch. Edwards is one of those places you can feel the history boiling out of the ground.
@@andyfletcher3561 What's your favorite memory? Thanks!
Lucky you!
@@andyfletcher3561 I envy you sir. Getting to see all those aircraft up close. By the way my mothers fathers middle name was Fletcher. I always liked it.
Happy Thanksgiving.
@Owen Kittredge: I envy you for your experiences sir. My only experiences was to see my father leaving on a plane to go on his two weeks reserve in the Navy. From 1951-1955 he served on the battleship USS New Jersey and was stationed in Japan for two years.
Happy Thanksgiving.
This aircraft always amazes me. Look at a high-performance race car or a sports car from the late 60s and then look at the XB-70 doing Mach 3+. The XB-70 looks like it's from a completely different timeline
FYI: with respect, it’s “Mach.” The speed scale was named for a German guy named Mach. “Mock” means to make fun of someone or something.
No.only f -35 the best
@@SuperSy99 XB-70 is a Mach 3 bomber , the f-35 is a Mach 1.4 stealth fighter/bomber
@@SuperSy99 f35 ? it cant fly in storm bc thunder will execute systems of that jet
@@matej1016 f35 is modern tech.its not true
One of my favorite aircraft ever. Been to the museum several times and have seen it every time.
One of the most beautiful airplanes.
My grandfather-in-law was on the design team for this plane. Being an aviation nerd, I was floored that I'd never heard of it before and moreso that he had designed it. Old people are cool.
Safe 😄
Uh huh...😏
Cap
thats cool
I built it in 1973 and learned about the XB-70 since it was a Revell model kit. Ya know - those things kids used to do as a hobby before cable tv in the 80’s.
I built a model of the Valkyrie in the mid-70s'. It was a huge box with a huge picture of the Valkarie. It caught my eye immediately at the toy store and I begged my dad for it.
It was the easiest model to build...2 huge wings, 2 huge tailfins and a 2 piece fuselage. The hardest part was not getting glue on the huge windshields.
Huge box, but the model itself was probably about 4 inches long.
Nice!, my first model was a Bell X1 from a yard sale my dad bought for me and we put it together, oh memories
Mine was an F-105 Thunderchief.1980 🤗
Same! One of the first airplane models I built, my first use of Testors flat black paint came out great! That and an F-111 swing-wing were two of my favorites.
So skill level 1 lol
Thanks for using some of our footage. We love this bird!!!
My oldest brother, Don, was a big fan of the Valkyrie. Back in 1990 we drove from Waco, Tx all of the way to Dayton, Ohio specifically to see it in person. It did not disappoint us. Huge and gorgeous. Watching the video it said that one of the reasons it was canceled was because the surface to air missiles could shoot it down. But I have read through the years that whenever the SR-71 detected a missile launch directed toward it, it simply accelerated away from the threat. They were both Mach 3 aircraft so I don't understand why that wouldn't work for the XB-70 also. Anyway, I always enjoy any video about what I consider the sexiest and most impressive plane ever.
This is a bomber designed to carry nuclear payload, made during a time when rockets weren't "in". That's why it was discontinued. SR-71 had reconnaissance uses wheres this was strictly a bomber that was useless now that nuclear payload could be delivered to point by target (both faster and cheaper)
The XB-70 became obsolete with ICBM's.
I had the pleasure of seeing this magnificent aircraft at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force a month ago. It's got to be one of the coolest experiences I've ever had. Seeing all of those historic planes is something I dreamt about for years. If you are even the slightest bit interested in the history of aviation, I would strongly consider visiting the museum. Admission is free and you can spend 1-2 days there just seeing everything.
I bet it was! When I was a kid my Dad took us to an exhibit at Montgomery Ward, Chicago. We saw an X-15!! I was fascinated just reading about the fuel that it inhaled.
where ? hello?
@@phillp7777
The XB-70 is being displayed as a permanent exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton Ohio.
Just went there for the 5th time this summer. This museum is an aviators dream. List of planes (just a few of many) that are on display. Memphis Belle, B29 Bockscar (Nagasaki atom bomb), F-22, YF-23, 2 SR-71s, F117, Mig29, and tons more. Plus a history of the U.S. Air Force with Titan and Minute Man missiles. The place nearly rivals Udvar-Hazy at Dulles near Washington D.C., but that place has a space shuttle. Hard to top that.
@@Sr89hot
I mirror your enthusiasm. I wholly enjoyed my visit to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The "2 SR-71s" you mentioned were awesome to see, though one of them was actually a YF-12A (interceptor variant). As for your judgment on the museum not having a space shuttle: I think having the bomber that ended WWII and the plane that carried Kennedy's body back from Dallas is just as, if not, more impressive.
Even to this day, the XB-70 looks out of this world! So glad I was able to see this at the AF Museum.
Took you long enough
@@Mausk45Edits Well, I literally meant that I saw it in person at the AF museum, not in a video. Seen it 2018 and earlier this year.
@Anglo Saxon No, that's too simplistic a view as their intended purposes were distinct, but they do share similarities and an SST version of the XB-70 was considered. Further, the XB-70 predates the Concorde by several years and first flew in 1964; the Concorde's first flight was 1969.
I love that plane! It looks like a huge cute bird! My dad was in the Air Force, belly gunner want to be 17 came back after 20 some missions! Airplanes are awesome and beautiful, much love to all the military for their unbelievably hard work and courage!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Oops! I meant to say b17 and it came out once to be 17!!!😜
@@beaknewcomer3835 You can edit the comment instead of posting a new one.
It crafts some serious frickin air for a plane jet
I grew up 20 miles from the United States Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio. As a kid in the 70's, I went to this museum many times. The Valkyrie used to be parked outside in front for years. The weather was not kind to it, so they raised the money and took it to the other side of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and restored it. The USAF museum group raised funds to build a new hangar for experimental aircraft, and the Valkyrie is the cornerstone exhibit. It is awesome to behold, even today! If you've never been to this museum, and you like aircraft, it is a must see!
Free to all, and open almost all year. They also have one of the first IMAX movie theaters. It would take you several days to see it all.
What a beast...incredible.
The cold war made unbelievable progress in technology. You see the plane, you understand the madness of those time... mach 3 for such a massive plane
Well technology always advance fastest during wars since there's really need for it.
Consider what airplanes looked like in WWII, just twenty years earlier, and then compare that to this or an SR71. Now think about the same changes in the last 20 years in almost anything.
The only field humanity has advanced on at any great pace in the last 40 years is information technology. The rest of human endeavors have been almost stagnant.
I keep waiting for the next new technology like jet engines, nuclear power, or the internal combustion engine that will vault us forward again, but I seem to be waiting in vain.
Maybe all the low hanging fruit has been picked, and there just aren't any more easy gains to be had.
Just imagine what kind of crazy secret tech is being worked in today
@@brendanh8978 I guess that wheels have stagnated once it was discovered that round was the way to go on your chariot.
You can only do so much with an aircraft before you are left with small upgrades like inlets or composite body material. The B-1 design was actually the German design for their purported German bomber that would have bombed New York with a nuke if it was available by 1946.
We do have made a lot of progress in computing in the last decade itself.
just imagine if they would put that money into people not war
The sound in the start of the video is amazing. Would love longer video with that sound or similar. Thank you
I’ve seen it the museum is absolutely massive nothing less then rad
It astounds me that this plane was invented just after the war. Aircraft technology made huge leaps since the advent of jet engines.
He said about doing Mach 3 in 1966, the year I was born, and to think this space age monster, had been going a few years before I was born. It's incredible considering there was no computer simulations etc to test the aerodynamics or handling.
Yea, test pilots back then had true balls of steel. These were the guys that were second bench to the space shuttle program. Tough as grit.
@@winternow2242 Playing video games
Здравствуй. Меня раздражает только одно, чего могли бы добиться люди, не пытаясь убить друг друга, а работая на благо всего человечества. Наверное мы как цивилизация, уже бы осваивали и изучали другие планеты.
Nothing produces more outcomes both for & against humanity, than necessity combined w/ a common enemy. It's our greatest paradox.
Regardless, I'd like to hope our military keeps a few of these (and other things), hidden in the underground hangars.
Incredible genius level engineers existed en masse once. That day is long gone. Devolution is evolution's greatest enemy. 2022... here .. we .. come
@@lonewolf36s lol what? Engineers today are more ahead of engineers from the 60s.
I was privileged as a wide-eyed and totally blown away 8 year old boy(I'm 64 now)to have seen this aircraft fly in an air show at Edwards AFB in early to mid-1966, just remember it being absolutely huge and one of the loudest aircraft I ever remembered hearing, even louder than the B-58 Hustler that was flying chase with it. This thing was one badass m'f'r.
I'm glad the remaining plane was saved in the USAF museum for future generations to ogle at.
CHINA INVENTED AN ANTI STEALTH QUANTUM RADAR THAT CAN EASILY DETECT US F 35 F 22 RAPTOR AND B 2 SPIRIT BOMBER STEALTH FIGHTER JETS 👉 NOW US WILL NEVER TRY TO SEND ITS SO CALLED STEALTH FIGHTER JETS INTO CHINESE AIRSPACE 😭😭😭
Wow, that would’ve been something to see alright! Lucky you
NEVER BUY F 35
F 35 IS CALLED LIGHTENING BECAUSE IT CRASHES DUE TO LIGHTENING IN BAD WEATHER ☁️
@@gautumbuddhabuddha8234 It’s called the “lightning II” actually, and it’s named after the P-38 Lightning of the Second World War.
I know he’s trolling, but he should at least troll correctly.
id seen that xb70 in dayton, ohio in 2022 and was a awsome sight to see in person...certainly one that i hope to remember and someday revisit again...
Gods, what a machine. She's incredible up close.
I have been lucky enough to see the XB70. I photographed it, touched it, and stood there in awe as I read the specs and admired the fantastic engineering. It's my favorite plane.
l know this aircraft well l am in my 80's now.....Thanks for showing this awesome plane once more......!
Interesting video, thanks for sharing, subscribed!
From the front looks like a Concorde. Absolutely beautiful!
"...that you never heard about."
That is unless you were alive in the '60s. I grew up near Dayton, Ohio and I actually did see the one remaining XB-70 fly over my home town when it was transported to the US Air Force Museum. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time with my dad and his coworkers on the top floor of their office building and we all saw it fly past at low speed about a mile or two away. The plane had been highly publicised, so we all knew what is was.
or just watched mistards video about the MiG 25 foxbat
I really enjoy reading this kind of stories on UA-cam where people just tell about the cool things that happened in their past. Very wholesome
I grew up much later, but learned about It as part of a documentry on the SR-71.
Or have any kind of interest in planes…
I'm from New York me and my family were visiting family in Dayton and we stop on a rd and got to see what I think was an sr71 land.
Fascinating to look back at this time and think about the incredible advances in air and space technology, all done with a slide ruler.
Shows it’s about time we got our shit together and started making space a reality with the level of tech we have compared to these innovators
Hahaha...1964 wasn't quite THAT bad, but I get the gist.
Extensive research data from the Valkyrie project helped convince Boeing that supersonic passenger aircraft were economically unworkable, resulting in the cancellation of their 2707 supersonic design project in 1971.
Of course, some holdouts will predictably claim that the British/French Concorde has demonstrated otherwise. But consider that a round trip ticket from New York to London cost the equivalent of $13,000 in today's money. Now go ahead and tell me that's perfectly workable. And where are the Concorde's today?
Yes, Boeing was right, and they were right again about the 4-engine jumbo jet. The 747 was one of the most profitable aircraft ever built, while the A380 has proven to be the greatest single financial mistake in the history of air transport.
@@MrPLC999 the Concord was never practical and always struggled, it was only ever a fraction as widespread as expected and it was mainly restricted on france-US or UK-US flights and never got widespread use, mainly because it was so imprafically expected only american and european millionaires could afford to buy a ticket to one of its few destinations.
@@MrPLC999 yeah the french have only managed to produce something like 10% the number they'd planned on with the A380
Pure elegance, I would love to see it in person.
the most beautiful that I have seen from the airships, grace and rigor
An engineering marvel i must say. Imagine having modern-day capabilities with a similar design. What a beast. American military tech always had a special design aesthetic to it.
This is more German design than anything else... Nazi engineers from the V2 era
@@arfmf
Huh? This was designed using engineering that the Nazis hadn't yet begun to fathom in the early 40s.
NEVER BUY F 35
F 35 IS CALLED LIGHTENING BECAUSE IT CRASHES DUE TO LIGHTENING IN BAD WEATHER ☁️
@@HighlanderNorth1 Because the same Nazis wouldn't come up with it until the 1950's when they were captives of the US.
My wife’s grandfather was one of the architects on this one along with the B-29 and OV-10 among others. This was his favorite. He was in airfoil(wing) design team.
I wasn’t around when they did testing within R2508 but that would’ve been a cool sight to test with them.
Before he passed away we would visit him in Columbus Oh and we would go look at the one at the museum and he would point out and share all types of info not many knew. Very cool to get an inside view on this beautiful A/C.
I just went to the museum this past weekend and by far it was my favorite plane. thats really cool that you had someone who could really tell you the stories of this beast. may he Rest In Peace 🙏
The XB-70 has so much aircraft, it make Superman look like Choo Choo.
I've seen this in the museum several times. Its amazing
The US build some beautiful planes. SR71 is still my favourite. Even today it looks way ahead of the F-22
I grew up spending my summers in the family wagon making the trek to WPAFB for the annual museum trip. The Valkyrie was the centerpiece of the museum when there was one building and everything was outside. I never have seen any footage of it flying until now, so this was a real treat!
I don’t know how many times I’ve been there. Never gets old.
Nice to see the hangar I used to work out of again.
The design is still breathtaking 👍😎
Have seen this plane twice in my life, as a kid around 12 yrs and again at 43, at Dayton... Left me speechless both times, just incredible. 🤯 🇺🇸👍
I've known of this for years, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built.
Its named after Nodic females spirits,a womam.. So yeah beautiful, strong and fast.
The SR-71 was even more beautiful to look at ..
@@winternow2242 do you know if any badass planes are named after a man.
@@winternow2242 no its a descriptive word to me. I didn't ask for an English lesson. But thanks for answering my question!
@@margaret3486 While great, it's not really accurate. Valkyrie descended on the battlefield to take the souls of brave warriors to Valhalla.
Beautiful - fast - decades ahead of its time
I still have one of these. Really capable machine.
The Cold War was a bad idea in general... But, damn, some 'results' are just amazingly beautiful!
It's a sad truth that war and threat of war are responsible for many of our technological advancements as well as the accelerated development of them.
Cap Tin beat me to it but I'm gonna say it anyway, war is terrible for human life but great for technological advances.
Yes what a brilliant use of public money
It’s like us in the U.K we produced the Vulcan high speed bomber to counter the threat from Russia. Thankfully it was never used in war which was a good thing I suppose. We used them once in the Falkland war where the prices effective, but thankfully never to carry a nuclear payload…
What do you mean a bad idea. Its not like someone just up and decided to start a war
This is the one plane that truly stood out in my memory from my visit to the Dayton Air Force museum. Amazing technological achievement!
The XB-70 was truly beautiful.
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There’s an elegant yet eerily destructive nature to it.
Obra prima de engenharia 👍👏👏👏Gasta um jogo de pneus cada vez que aterrissa, sem outra chance
Intern: how many engines we need?
Engineer: yes.
lol
Engineer: All of them.
but the plane it was supposed to replace had 2 MORE engines over this one.
amazing that the B52 was built 50 years after the Wright brothers flew and is still flying and expected to fly for forty more, and this plane was flying only ten years later after the B52
@@user-rb2re7ls6e believing too much in a god
@@user-rb2re7ls6e no. The idea of god has caused many conflicts throughout history.
@@user-rb2re7ls6e Unrelated, but isn’t the fact we can hit translate under our comments in real time, extremely cool as it bridges the gap between our language barriers that have existed for millennia..? What a time to be alive, as long as we don’t destroy each other, our future will be almost indescribable for us to imagine today.
Ppl have brains back then.
@@user-rb2re7ls6e fair enough, have a nice day
This is one of the planes of all time 😍
That thing is huge. When you see a picture of it you don't get how gigantic the plane is. It's a shame they lost one
Saw this at the Museum around 1976, it was parked outside back then. Saw it again in 1993 just before I enlisted and once more in 2004. It's quite a sight.
exactly .. this is NOT new technology
There is a SR71 at the Huntsville rocket center in Alabama. Where they have a space shuttle as well as space camp . They have a couple used and recovered fuel tanks displayed with the shuttle. And if course several rockets including a Saturn 5 . The rocket secret is cool did you ever get a chance to stop by !
Having been in the Air Force for 20 years I was totally aware of this plane. While it didn't go into production lessons were learns from it and it contributed to future aircraft development.
Поэтому ту160 лучше, как все советские и российские самолеты
@@user-fm8zd3or8m нет. 😂 🇺🇸
How much did the total program cost?
@@user-fm8zd3or8m Yes, what you said is true. *Russia has the fastest and most powerful military aircrafts in the world.* The US does have poor, slow, old and none-powerful military aircrafts. In a direct battle, Russia would win within seconds. All American military aircrafts would fall from the sky, just by seeing the power Russian airforce.
Dear Amiercans, don't tell him this:
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War
Greetings from Germany, a member of the NATO.
Why were there *SO MANY* air force vets at jan 6th? Don't you guys pledge an oath to protect the constitution or something?
Anyone who has never heard of this aircraft has been living in another dimension in another galaxy in another universe.
Hi I'm from x92.26 !!! You probably never heard of our planet, but then again I've never heard of this plane..
@@petrokemikal Actually I do. It's near Planet Claire in the Zorb Galaxy. Welcome to Earth.
@@nosaltadded2530 Thanks !! Cool plane..U should see our stuff.. Well technically u cant see it so...
Flying that thing had to be amazing
Built for the most insane mission ever imagined.
You mean the colonoscopy Joe Biden just underwent?
It melted once it got within 6 inches from his colon, couldn’t get past the diaper fiber barrier
@@joseruiz4026 Epic! They used that metal on the nose cone of the Space Shuttle, it's known as Hafnium Carbide.
CHINA INVENTED AN ANTI STEALTH QUANTUM RADAR THAT CAN EASILY DETECT US F 35 F 22 RAPTOR AND B 2 SPIRIT BOMBER STEALTH FIGHTER JETS 👉 NOW US WILL NEVER TRY TO SEND ITS SO CALLED STEALTH FIGHTER JETS INTO CHINESE AIRSPACE 😭😭😭
@@gautumbuddhabuddha8234 so how does that work?
My great grandfather was Harrison Storms, Chief engineer of the XB-70 and X-15. Super cool video, really enjoyed learning about the history and background of this aircraft.
Turns out every other commenter had a grandfather working on this project
Andrew, you certainly do have a reason to be very proud of your great grandfather
BS!
Stormy?
There is a great book out about him. Angle of attack; Harrison Storms and the race for the Moon. A must read. I believe he was the scapegoat for the Apollo 1 fire that killed 3 Astronauts. NASA was trying to do to much too fast and tragedy happened as it does. Fill a small capsule with flammable items and then have an atmosphere of 100% oxygen, against warnings from NAA and others, in a very new untested vehicle! What could go wrong did! Now, who do we blame? Not NASA, don't bite the hands that are feeding you, so bye bye Mr. Storms and others. Sad, but nothing new in any large Corporation.
Such a beautiful and elegant plane. I must go see it someday.
So nice to see video footage of this plane, even though I already knew of its history. There is in fact one bit of historical fact this video didn't cover: The long-reaching effects of the plane. It touched on its influence in American military applications, but not the Soviet ones. It was because of the threat of this bomber's development that the Soviets pressured the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau to build a plane that was supposed to catch this bomber. Even though the U.S. Congress ended up doing the killing for them, the Soviets put that plane into service, as the MiG-25 Foxbat-quite possibly the scariest airplane the Soviets ever developed (not so much for its abilities, though, as the mystery they kept it shrouded in).
I knew of the Valkyrie, but I didn't know there was still a surviving prototype. I thought they only ever built a couple of them and they were later scrapped.
@@captin3149 they built 2 and one crashed. The B-70 was the first development aircraft that didn’t suffer the fate of being scrapped after the Air Force was done with it.
lmfao..MiG-25 is russian crap.
@@bilbobaggins5962 Russian yes, crap probably not. Do not sell their equipment short, if it was enough to scare the shit out of the DoD, it was probably at least a passable piece of equipment.
Indeed... I think I still have Belenko's book. His interviews demonstrate the alarm within the Kremlin over the B-70.
And yes, in reality, the MiG-25 was misread;.seen as air superíority fighter, it was little more than a very fast manned missile that dropped its payload and went back home.
you know what 'chaps my hide'? When someone makes the blanket statement ..."that you never heard about". I actually built a model kit of this aircraft in like 1965. It had these cool, clear red plastic afterburner flames!
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I built the same model, about the same time. I thought it looked pretty cool, but probably too expensive.
I had one too...but it didn't have the afterburner pieces.
The model was quite large...almost 15" long. Wish I knew what happened to it!
@@markwagner1997 I think mine was the same one. I tried to put on the decals, but made a big mess. I ended up painting it blue with orange highlights. No decs
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damn, these ksp visual mods looking good
Awesome!!!
One of my favorite episodes of the documentary "Wings" was about the Valkyrie. A beautiful bird still to this day! I'll definitely plan a visit to Dayton to see her.
Worth the trip. I’ve been visiting since the early 70s.
@@Jessikitty2020 every year?
@@SunnyFLBoy not quite but as often as I can. Twice this year and probably one more time.
@@Jessikitty2020 but it's all the same. Why do you go so often?
@@SunnyFLBoy its not all the same. They add exhibits and move exhibits all the time.
Seeing crewmen next to it truly highlights how monstrous it is.
I've been to the air force museum where it's at, it truly is a monstrosity
Looks stunning
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I just saw this beautiful plane at the Air Force Museum and its a true wonder. Just a stunning plane.
I saw one take off from Edwards AFB at an air show in, like, 1965 or 1966. It was spectacular; i think i read somewhere that the cockpit was three stories in the air before the rear wheel left the ground.
Damn thats freking huge
That thing is awesome...
I did know about this plane. What a beautiful plane.
I admire how ever built it is.
Looks somewhat like a Klingon Bird of Prey.
I heard about it even got to see it fly back when I was 7 years old at the 1964 Edwards AFB airshow it had a TB-58 Hustler flying with it.
Standing underneath it is pretty cool. It's so massive.
One of the most impressive aircraft I ever seen.
It goes directly to my favorite list's of aircraft.
With the wonderful SR-71/A12, the B2, the F117, F14 Tomcat, Raptor, Concorde and the Tupolev 144.
I've been privileged to see the SR-71 fly more times I feel, than any man has a right to. Favorite times were dusk and dawn. Also witnessed the roll out and maiden flight of the B-2.
Surprised not to see the Vulcan in there.
My dad, which was born in 1960 Guangdong China, often told me a story about how incredible life was back then. Instead of going to the river to pull for water, they can just use that old style hand pump to get water from underground. And instead of going to the toilet at the rice field, they finally got a working water closet which was a wonder of it's time he said.
And yet, at 1969 back when he was 9 y.o, this freaking beast flew high up the american sky. The technological contrast really blew my mind. At one side of the world, water closet was an infrastructural miracle, and home telephone was an extreme luxury item only government officials had. On the other side of the world, this thing flies.... Can't even imagine the difference of living standard was for the civilian.
Life’s what you make it!
That's what happens when you live under a communist regime
Now in 2021, we have the once piss-poor China contesting the U.S. on every front. You gotta admit the communist regime is catching up at supersonic speed.
China only began to match developed countries in the 70s or 80s if I recall correctly.
I’m sure almost every country got a nuke.
Beautiful elegant looking plane, still looks modern today
Saw it recently at the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio. What an incredible aircraft!😮
An amazing aircraft. We learned a great deal from it.
Aaa so THIS was the inspiration for the Valkyrie shuttle in Avatar! It's basically this aircraft without the front hull section.. I always loved the design of that aircraft 👌
Looks like a Monster!
I saw it years ago at the WPAFB it was very cool!!!!
“You’ve never heard of”… yes. Yes I have heard of it. I’m fact, I’ve been inside that very plane at the museum.
Yea I bet you been inside it Joseph jo-seff Josiah
@@theguy3490 It's open to the public and the cabin is part of the exhibit. Anyone can go inside you just need a museum ticket.
@@theguy3490 🤣🤣🤣 I see what you did there
BS you never saw the plane until this video
@@richerd4266 the museum is free….how would you get a ticket?
Ive seen this one in person, its amazing and the museum is a lot of fun
One of the most beautiful aircraft like a true Valkyrie.
That plane is wild looking.
The Blackbird SR-71 is still the fastest plane ever and my favorite. Mach 3.3
I am 70 years old and I remember reading articles about the XB-70 prototype bombers. The XB-70 was in the news in the 1960s. Also it was big news when the second prototype had a mid air collision and crashed. In the 1960s the XB-70 looked futuristic and very different from all other airplanes of that time.
It was being tested at the same time as the development of Boeing's SST, and there were a lot of comparisons made at the time. Cancelling the SST almost bankrupted Boeing, costing many jobs, including that of my step father.
after the crash the pilot became the 6 million dollar man?
I’ve been fortunate to visit the Air Force museum in Dayton, this plane is quite incredible to see in person. Very unique and quite large.
Nice historical vid.
Wow this plane is so I'm just in amazement!
Ive built a 1/72 XB-70 and it it truely massive and stunning, it looks like something straight out of thunderbirds
I have touched that airplane!
I grew up in Dayton and my father was an aeronautical engineer at area B at WPAFB. Spent a lot of time at the USAF Museum. Along with the SR-71, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built and flown.
The tires always had a silver metallic look to them. It is one of my favorite airplanes at the museum.
There are several SR-71s on display in Southern California. For free. The display aircraft are inside a chained off area, once you pass through the gift shop you can touch any part of the plane you can reach. Where the inner workings are visible you realize how utterly complex these planes were. All the men who flew these spy planes were also astronauts.
@@timmayer8723 there is a former sr71 pilot on UA-cam that does public engagements, he tells some very interesting stories. The USAF museum is free also. Which is awesome considering the size and beauty of it. Not being able to get close to or touch the exhibits can be annoying but I understand why. We were disappointed when we didn't get a space shuttle. But after speaking with someone who had seen one, they are roped off displays. What we got here was a replica of the nose that was used for training. The museum had an exhibit constructed around it that resembles the cargo bay and contains hands on exhibits. If you are ever in Dayton, I highly recommend it.
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Worked at the whole base for about 8 months. Got to see alot. One of my favorites areas to work in was the museum.
Ive seen that at the wright patterson museum and yes, its awesome.
Futuristic👍
Humming the Thunderbirds theme as it rolls out of the hangar.
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I was thinking did the designer watch thunderbirds or did thunder birds see this and think yes let’s have one of those 👍👍