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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:59 pm
Post subject: Stooooo-Pyyyyy....XB-70 Valkyrie...maybe there's hope yet...

Apparently, there is, or was, parts for a third...and something awfully much like it may have flown....
You have to wade through some boring super-secret black program hyper-velocity space plane stuff to get to the good bits, but it's in there...about 1/2 tor 2/3rds of the way down.....

www.aviationnow.com/av...0606p1.xml

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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:54 pm
Post subject: Re: Stooooo-Pyyyyy....XB-70 Valkyrie...maybe there's hope ye

Ooooo! Excelllent reading - THANK YOU!!!!! What I remember was that the real bane of the XB-70 was the horribly long and complex hydraulic system. Man it would be so easy to redesign that with the 50 year's worth of improvements that have been made since that time. I liked this part especially:

"Based on information gleaned from multiple industry sources, the SR-3 features:

*A roughly 200-ft.-long, clipped-delta-winged planform resembling yada yada yada yada.....

* Yada yada yada yada.....

*Very loud engines. One other classified military aircraft may have used the same type of powerplant. "

Abso-frikkin-lutely right.....GOTTA have them!!! How can it be a world-call spaceplane with VLE's????

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