XB-70 Valkyrie - The Worlds Fastest Bomber
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- “That’s not a plane, it’s a 3 plane formation” that’s what General Curtis LeMay said of the plans for the WS-110 supersonic replacement for the B-52 back in 1954.
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Back in the early 1950s, the B-52 was USAF’s main nuclear delivery platform but with the increasing sophistication of the Soviet defences, a new supersonic nuclear bomber was called for which would stretch the limits of the technology to beyond what was thought possible just a few years before.
The plane that would emerge from the WS-110 design process was the XB-70 Valkyrie. It would be one of the biggest in the world and capable of cruising at Mach 3, something which no aircraft of this type is capable of doing even today. It would also fly at 77,000 feet - 23,500 meters, have a range of 4,280 miles or 6,900 km and carry up to 14 nuclear weapons.
The problem with large planes and payloads is the need for powerful engines which in turn require a lot of fuel which also has to be carried making the plane heavier and reducing the available payload, so in the 40’s and 50’s alternative methods of propulsion were researched.
Nuclear was seriously considered as a power source for jet engines. A nuclear reactor would heat the air in place of jet fuel and could run for weeks or months without the need for refuelling.
But problems with the extra weight of the radiation shielding required for the crew and the low thrust output from early engine designs meant that it became unpractical. Also if a nuclear-powered plane crashed it would be a much bigger problem than a conventional jet due to the radioactive contamination.
If you want to find out more about Nuclear powered planes, trains and automobiles we have video on the link showing now.
Also during in the 1950’s, a new type of jet fuel was being developed called high energy fuel or Zip fuel. This could deliver up to 40% more energy for the same weight. This was achieved by adding boron, a high energy, low mass element.
The problem with this is that it made both the fuel and the exhaust toxic. When the Zip fuel was burned in the engines it produced solids that were sticky, corrosive and highly abrasive and created a lot of black smoke which could reveal the position of the plane even at high altitude. These solids built up on the turbine blades making them less efficient and in some case causing the engines to fail completely.
One method get around these issues was to use it in afterburners as this didn’t affect the engine itself. This would be used for the quick dash up to supersonic speeds over enemy territory whilst using normal jet fuel for the rest of the journey.
This and the high cost of making the Zip fuel and the inability to overcome the engine damage it caused meant that it also went the same way as the Nuclear powered engines and by 1959 Zip fuels were dropped too.
Both the Nuclear engines and the Zip fuels were proposed for the WS-110 before a new higher density type of conventional jet fuel called JP-6 was developed.
To overcome the extra fuel needed, the North American Aviation’s WS-110 design had “floating panels” at the end of the wings which were essentially huge fuel tanks, these would have been jettisoned when it went to supersonic leaving much shorter trapezoid shaped wings.
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Fun trivia: the USSR thought the XB-70 was intended to be an operational bomber, so they designed the MiG-25 in order to intercept it. The US, having only rumors of the MiG-25 as a Mach 2.5 super fighter, then designed the F-15 to maintain air superiority over the MiG-25. So, one of the most capable fighter aircraft of all time was designed to defeat a unmaneuverable but fast interceptor intended only for defense against a bomber that never went into production.
haha nice one :)
Cold war in a nutshell.
Further still, Fpanker was designed to beat F-15. F-22 was designed to beat Flanker, and regardless it's all theoretical because none of those planes have ever been killed in a dogfight.
ColasTeam hahahahaha
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If you are ever in the Dayton Ohio area, go to the museum - stunningly gorgeous airplane.
100% agree!!! I have seen it and when you walk into the big hall there she is looming above all the rest like a gigantic swan dwarfing the lesser aircraft. To think this was built in the 50s is shocking - she puts planes 3 decades newer to shame. Stunning is the word.
It’s on my list of air museums I need to see. Problem is I live in the uk lmao.
Yeah I went like a year ago and never regretted it. The amount of planes from all ages and militaries is amazing. Legendary ones like the b-29 that dropped the second atom bomb on japan, air force one, one of the wright brothers original planes, the Valkyrie, sr-71, heck they even have inactive ICBMs.
When I was living in western Colorado as a kid, this jet plane would often fly over Grand Junction at supersonic speeds thereby creating loud sonic booms. One was intense enough to create a very long crack in the one of the bank`s two story tall windows. No doubt that`s one of the reasons supersonic flights of commercial aircraft over the U.S. were later banned.
I remember sonic booms in Texas close to Dallas in th 60s as a child.
The Valkyrie is hands down my favorite plane ever. It's big, it's fast, it's creative and it's beautiful.
It is a very beautiful design.
@Tyler 324 and ICBMs showed up as it was being finished and made it obsolete.
Nice necro, there buddy.
Personally I love the f-22, but this plane is glorious. I've had the pleasure to stand under it at the air force museum in Dayton Ohio.
the Bat Jet look of the sr71 is sicker tho
thank you for using your own voice and face in your videos, it makes it alot more enjoyable than those computer generated ones. instantly subbed
CDNShuffle
Upvote for a great truth
I enjoy this channel quite a bit, if you like weird, obscure planes, check out “Mustard”. He does a lot of really interesting videos about a lot of well known and not so known airplanes
Shut it.
I mainly subbed for the shirts
You have really interesting videos! this is one of my favorite channels, keep up the good work.
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Thats right
Wulcom 2 de Hudrolic pres chanel.
I love anime crossovers
Hydraulic Press Channel haha, hey, Lauri likes some of the same channels I do ;)
I lived at Edwards AFB from 1965 through 1967. I was there when they flew the XB-70. My high school friend Jim Fulton's father Col. Fritz Fulton was one of the test pilots. I often saw the XB-70 out of it's hanger on the flight line from several miles away. I have always loved that plane. Edwards was about 50 miles from the nearest town of Lancaster. So the Air Force has a K through 12 school on base. Whenever an experimental plane crashed, they would pull children of the respective test pilots out of class until they learned who had been in the crash. I was in class when the XB-70 crashed, and they pulled Jim Fulton out of class.
John Van Dusen.............l knew Fritz, we exchanged Valkyri’s a couple of times to compare opinions of each other’s aircraft . Maybe you remember me I was North American’s youngest test pilot (16 yrs old). I was at the controls when the escort plane struck my wing. Seem to remember meeting his son and the both of them were there at the scene after I parachuted to safety
50 miles from Lancaster? You meant 15 miles. I know very well Palmdale, Rosamond, Mojave, North Edwards, California City, Quartz Hill, Litlerock and Lancaster. From Juniper Hills Vista point you can clearly see entire Antelope Valley and see how close to Lancester Edwards AFB actually is. ;)
@@General5USA I thought he was FITZ Fulton. His first name was Fitzhugh.
That’s right! Young Jim Fulton was a friend of mine ( we were almost the same age, 16 yrs.) they closed the school when they heard that i crashed in the desert ...i was surprised that he arrived so quickly. He called his dad who was assigned at a different airfield and his dad Fritz (Fitz) Fulton sent a car with his son and the base commander to the crash sight. I would visit the school once in a while to answer some allowable questions about the XB-70 Valkyri. The big question was how a 16 yr. got to be a test pilot for an SST. The answer... I made and demonstrated the worlds fastest paper airplane to the president of Northrop which put me on staff with the engineers. After which solved the landing gear retraction problem which was to hide the gear into the wing and fuselage...by designing a gear system that rotates the gear 90 degrees during retraction so they would fit snuggly out of the airstream of the bottom fuselage. That’s what got me authority to test the gear on landings.. and to test pilot the aircraft was the “paper airplane” that the appearance of the valkyrie wings and fuselage came from. Big success was the landing gear design which solved the retraction problem that almost cancelled the XB- 70 SST project altogether. Just for the record... I masterminded, designed and test flew the X-29 In 1972 which was taken over by NASA in 1977-78 , When i started working for NASA again. 🇺🇸
EricIrl Your right! Excuse. me...The name error was constant with him. My friends nicknamed me Fritz (although i didn’t resemble the animated character....not very much...😺) but because i worked on the animation for the movie “Fritz the Cat”. Whenever he was called Fritz he would point at me with a big smile and say “He’s Fritz ..I’m Fitz”. The base commander would fondly call us, Valkyrie team of “Fitz and Fritz”. Just so you know. the XB-70 was an army SST aircraft that was over funded....my valkyrie X-70 project was started,money and engineering personnel
that was shared and taken from the XB-70 and applying to the X -70 to keep down the civilian aircraft cost. the civilian “white bird”. was protected by the Air Force and Hangared at Northrop ....Mach 2 ...with wings strait and level...and Mach 3+ with wings Boxed 90 degrees.
I've been to the US Air Force Museum many times. The XB-70 was always my favorite stop on the tour. It is an absolutely towering aircraft, with the cockpit around 20 feet off the ground. With its delta configuration it looks so different from all the other aircraft, and with its flawless white paint, it shines. It definitely is an impressive thing to see.
Man you didn't even flinch when the engine blew up behind you.
Trump: ''wasn't that CGI''
Cool guys don't look at explosions
Real men don't look at explosions, they just walk away.
that or frozen turkeys shot into it..
Geniál Frérot you seem a little butt hurt
At mach 3 you don't even need bombs. Just chuck a beer can out the side and it's a kinetic-kill weapon.
Now I am imagining the planes being equipped with rapid fire beer can guns. Deadly and it recycles!
Fuck yeah, 'Murica!
Use dried peas instead of wasting good beer
The Soviets would use vodka bottles.
But it would be only deadly to the fool flying against the aircraft really close to it while it drops the can, sorry for ruining your illusion, but things don't drop faster because you dropped it from a higher place or speed
actually dropping it from a higher place would give a projectile more time to reach it's terminal velocity especially if the starting point is at a place of lower air resistance i.e. extreme high altitude (something most falling objects never actually reach) which obviously could be further enhanced by improving the shape of the object thus reducing drag (hence why the current skydiving world speed record held by Felix Baumgartner is Mach 1.25 well above the average skydiving top speed of 120 mph)
The narration and appearance of the narrator is MUCH appreciated. Easy to understand and putting a face to the voice makes for a much friendlier experience. I hate Hate HATE mechanical computer narration and will often turn off the video early on if these tinney disjointed voices are used! Stick to real humans - much better!!
I know ,right!... damn robots moving here taking our jobs
Victor J Adams yeah, I've always felt, if someone can't be bothered to read the script or article being covered than I can't be bothered to watch it.
My superstition on these computer generated voiced videos is that the author of the video is not a native speaker and does not have confidence in doing it themselves. They can write in English but for whatever reason don't find someone who could narrate the video for them. I've often noticed odd phrasing and or broken English etc in these computer generated videos.. I'm like you, I usually down vote them and find something else I can stand to listen to.
Don't downvote them, I rarely even comment on them, as ANY interaction with a video is considered a positive as far as TH-cam is concerned and thus help the channel
Yup, I love his voice. I subscribed way back, right after browsing suggested videos and discovering his channel and I've been a loyal, HAPPY fan ever since. In addition to his easy to understand and SOOTHING voice, I love his wild shirts.
Sure wish there was at least one still flying. A superb quality production.
Depending on how much you believe fringe forums and conspiracy sites, you might be interested in something called BLACKSTAR.
damn varys, you always make interesting vids
This one isn't as emasculated. I hope.
yes
the birds sing to him about supersonic flight :D
that shirt made me feel sick.
Rufus Chucklebutty that's because ur full of shit
I'm just here for the shirts
he should sell them as a merchandise
no
scaponyx!! Great idea!! ¶;D~
Calypsus, made I chuckle :)
Calypsus He should get a sponsorship deal
This beautiful plane still makes my heart skip a beat, just as it did when I was given a model of it in 1973.
I built a model of this plane when I was a kid in 1972, the smell of the glue was intoxicating!
With that profile picture I'm not sure you're older than 47 years.
Its something called having a son Maxce
All the aerial shots of the xb70, from below and ahead of the aircraft, are clearly the shape of Star Trek's Klingon ship from the original series.
Well of course it does - you know we've been using alien tech all this time, right? 😁
Indeed it kinda look like a Bird of prey.
Dude you have TALENT for narrating those videos. Its just amazing!
Saw the actual XB-70 in that museum in Ohio. It was so huge that it takes up the entire length of the hanger, along with other "dwarf" experimental aircraft. Great plane indeed.
Galileo7of9 lucky! It looks like it would be fun to fly (not that I’ve ever flown a plane. *sigh* I can only imagine that.)
The National Museum of the U.S.A.F. keeps growing. I live in Ohio and like to visit at least once each year. When Dad first took me there, it was one main building with an auxiliary hanger on base and lots of outdoor displays. Since your post, they have added Memphis Belle and at least one hanger of planes. I think it's an underrated destination, especially with free parking and no admission fee.
I recall how the pilots had to overcome the oddity of taxiing well off the tarmac as they made turns since the nose stuck out sooo far ahead of the wheels. Must have been a blast to fly.
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I live just south of Wright-Pat. When they flew the plane into Patterson field it went over my house twice. First at maybe 8\10 thousand then again at around 2,000. What a sight! Later when they moved the museum from Patterson to its current location on Wright Field I watched them tow it along local roads along with the rest of the collection. Wish I had taken pictures of it.
i can’t get over what a fantastic speaker we have for this video. phenomenal conveyance of information in an easy to understand manner.
Just got to see the only extant XB-70 in Dayton two weeks ago. Building Four at the USAF Museum is simply unbelievable. I have a photo with the XB-70, YF-23, Tacit Blue, and a YF-12 in the frame. The Valkyrie is ENORMOUS.
Amazing as always
The SR71 also had some leaking problems, except they were somewhat intentional. The titanium body expanded in flight by so much that they had to design gaps in the panels so that it wouldn't rip itself apart. These gaps let fuel escape from the tanks, so a new fuel had to be designed that would allow the engines to start without igniting a puddle of its own fuel. Apparently it was so non-volatile that you could use it to put out a cigarette.
The flight time was limited by the amount of TEB, or TriEthylBorane (the chemical used to ignite the afterburners) that could be carried.
Abolutely none of what you say is true.... the fuel leaks that ocured because of an additive in the fuel would would cause the sealant in the tanks to dissolve. the big problem in the beginning was that the tires would blow apart and catch fire upon landing...The most beautiful part of the aircraft and my personal favorite is the main landing gear and the way it retracts.
@@myronproudput3468 According to Ben Rich's memoir (i.e. one of the people who developed the plane), Jay is correct about the intentional gaps. Also, according to the same source, there was no "big problem", almost every single part of it gave them huge headaches.
i dont remember too much about ben rich at northrop but i do remember another builder was working on a military bomber (very large) also called the valkyri. it had retractable delta wings and cammo-painted rather than the folding delta that the white one had. the confusion caused by the name caused the headaches. the most difficult problem with the white valkyri was the tires would overheat ..catch fire and then blow out. also the static charge on the wings were so great that the bearings of the control components (elevator ailerons,etc.would suffer metal fatigue at one pre-take-off inspection i made the elevator actually became detached from the horizontal stabilizer. this problem was resolved with the implementation of bonding straps and ( a new devise of the time) static wicks. which also eliminated radio interference and noise.
Jay Kay My big brother, a Captain in the RCAF, told me about the SR71 expansion and fuel situations over 35+ years ago. RIP Bro, I still love aviation that you mastered. 💔
Nice series of videos. Good information , perfect voice for narrative videos. Thanks!!
You are one of the most comfortable to listen to people I have heard. I could spell an unfamiliar word from your very clear pronunciation. And of course your subject matter is always interesting
as always, very interessting!!
Noxygen yes
Another interesting presentation.
North American were nothing if not ambitious. At the same time they were designing, building and testing the XB-70, they were also designing, building and testing -
The Apollo Command and Service Module
The SII stage of the Saturn V
The X-15
The F107 fighter
The A-5 Vigilante
They were very busy bees.
Your timeline is a little off. The A-5 first flew in 1961 and you are WAY off on the F-107. That was retired in 1957.
@NASTY CANASTA A lot of these projects overlapped. Harrison Storms was a very busy chap.
@NASTY CANASTA And he was in charge of the Apollo Command/Service Module contract.
@MrLewisbate CM? CM usually refers to the Command Module. North American Aviation won the contract to build the Command/Service Module (CSM) - which is where they became seriously overstretched. It was trying to juggle so many advanced projects at the same time that meant they could not keep on top of everything that brought about the fire that killed Grissom, White and Chaffee.
Grumman were awarded the contract for the LM i.e. the Lunar Module.
And I forgot to mention the XB-70 Valyrie.
So great to find a channel that you can put auto play on and love every video that comes on. Thank you so much you do such a great job please keep it up.
This is my favourite youtube channel. Thank you for your brilliant videos!
XB-70 is a sexy looking plane imo
It's glorious to see in person. So big... it just radiates power.
If you want to see it, it's at the Dayton Airforce Museum in Ohio.
I'll have to go and see that at sometime.
Archer it's not an opinion. It is a fact. It is sexy.
+Archer - The SR-71 ( official + unoffician successoers) looks a way sexier than the XB-70
Killerspieler0815
Nah both of them are sexy.
Will bang them anyway.
Are you leading up to the SR-71 Blackbird? I sense you might be! Can't wait.
Spitfire? :-)
Milos...thats like comparing blondes and brunettes.....both beautiful....but in different ways....Spitfire is gorgeous..Blackbird might be the most incredible/capable object the USA has ever created...IMO
SR71 ...the mere sight of one.....makes me smile..lights up the happy place in my brain
yes, both are beautiful, but I like brunettes more then blondes :-)
i grew up in Nebraska near the SAC museum, so the Blackbird was always something I was fascinated with since I had the chance to see one in that museum. would love a video about that.
Your videos are a real delight. Very well writen and told.
Always enjoy your videos Curious Droid. Informative, well presented, and not computer generated text to voice. Thumbs up.
One of the most beautiful aircraft ever built. I own several artifacts from the aircraft #2 crash site, including some titanium honeycomb. Great work on your presentation. Thanks.
No you don't. The honeycomb was stainless steel. Titanium was only used on the leading edges and the nose.
Another great, well researched video.
Soo well presented and researched. It's great not only because you got a lot of information about the development of this aircraft but also told the personal story of the test pilots who dedicated themselves to and gave their lives for experimental aircraft.
You always seem to find the most interesting old archive footage clips, CuriousDroid - keep it up! These are interesting.
7:51 tfw you realize that Elmer's is what's holding your jet together.
Med Otaku basically every german late WW2 plane
its leak tech compound for the fuel cell. gezzz lol
Seeing this plane in person at the WPAFB museum is the closest I've ever gotten to a religious experience.
Fantastic episode, so unlike the other surface scratching videos on the yt. Well done, breathtaking experience.
Thank you for getting straight to the point and discussing only the subject at hand.... a lot of channels tend to go on tangents about related but ultimately unimportant things.
A stunningly beautiful aircraft.... 😍
...and so far ahead of its time, that it still looks like a futuristic design concept today. 🖖😎
I'm a F4 B-52 SR-71 fan. but in my many trips to Wright-Patterson this is the plane I was drawn to..
Robert Morgan you have great taste
I totally agree, as I have seen the first 3 while in the USAF, and saw the XB-70 at Wright Patt AF museum.
Your research and attention to detail are both amazing!
great video again, I guess I knew it already when I saw it in the list ;) nicely done again, @CuriousDroid
They were amazing planes to see and hear. I still remember the sonic booms in Antelope Valley when they were flying them at Edwards.
The XB-70 is still one of the most futuristic looking planes ever built. It really captures that 60's and 70's look of what the future would be like.
Captain Wolfsburg more like what "future" in comics would look like) look at airbus, boeing, embraer, superjet - they all came to one most efficient form factor
True golden age
I'm so thrilled to have come across this channel. Your research goes much further than I've ever seen and I learn more about each topic every episode. The XB-70 will always be a top favorite of mine. It is so beautiful to behold. And you can immediately see how its design inspired the upcoming Concorde and Tu-144 SSTs. Thank you and cheers from the States. 🤗🇺🇸
Neither of the SSTs resembles the B-70.
@@winternow2242 North Americans design did
@@Yeaggghurte the OP was specific to Concorde and the Tu-144. Oddly enough, compared to those planes and the other American SSTs, the NA plane carried the fewest passengers. I think its range was also shortest, though maybe not by much.
My favorite YT’er! Thanks for the great vyds!
I was almost as quick as the Valkyrie with this comment!
Thanks for the video :)
Did a USAF fighter plane later crash into you?
+leakycheese - I am faster ( 12000 miles/h ~18000 km/h ) zipping from behind , "my" bomber needs space shuttle tiles & is rhombus shaped = THE FASTEST bomber th-cam.com/video/FYs1R7gx1Es/w-d-xo.html ( @ 24 minutes 19 seconds )
thank you for this video
I'm happy to have found your channel. very knowledgeable videos. keep it up! I'll keep watching here in the states. 👍
Excellent material shown in the right moment, this channel is a privilege.
This with the B-58 are my top gorgous plane ever !
I saw it in real life at the us air force museum, the things a beast.
Anyone who is watching this video really should go to Dayton, Ohio.
She's a beaut alright. I can see it as a forerunner to the Fireflash from Thunderbirds...
@@NoOne3234 it is an amazing museum! Loved my two visits there
the narrative and production on these videos are awesome!
My grandfather used to be an engineer at Wright Patterson AFB and we often used to go to the museum. I was absolutely mesmerized by this plane as a kid and I still love it. Such an interesting piece of aviation history.
It's amazing that 60+ years later it still looks futuristic!
The collision was actually caused by poor knowledge of the vortex generation caused by those swept wings (after all it was developed during the fifties) so the pilot (and engineers as well) had no reason to believe a plane couldn't fly that close to the Valkyrie. However I love this plane; it still has the most beautiful (and complex) air intake design to date! Those intakes are the most beautiful parts to me. They generate a lot of oblique shock waves resulting in very high efficiency with less entropy increase aand of course they can vary their cross section to function properly in every condition.
I don't know whether "the poor knowledge of the vortex generation" explanation is a valid one, as engineers back then were conducting a lot of reasearch on aerodynamics, precisely because they were faced with the challenge of breaking through different layers of Mach thresholds. But what's sure is that the Valkyrie, in her strategic bomber role, had no operational reason to be flying in close formation with any other aircraft... the only exception being perhaps the Foxbat, but that's a different story... :-) So the vortex thing is certainly an issue that engineers knew of, but had no reason to consider as a source of danger for anybody given the mission and role the Valkyrie was destined to play.
What an excellent presentation! Clearly and logically presented with excellent footage to accompany it. Well done! 👏😊
Thank you Sir, I enjoy your content immensely and, I like how you use both Imperial or American and metric units of measurement, by doing this it makes your content that much more enjoyable and easier to understand. Again thank you Sir
For a guy with access to a virtually unlimited budget Lemay had a remarkably practical mind.
A much under scored man.
In my personal opinion,
The Air Force has never been able to find even a close match as a CG.
His Experience and Practical vision, along with True leadership(example). Are none existent in a world, that thinks of management. Without knowing LEADERSHIP.
Ross Perot put it best,
"You manage material, you manage property.
You Lead people."
Lemay was arrogant and reactive. Had he had his way we’d live in a post apocalyptic isotope ridden world.
His firebombing of Tokyo and Osaka were crimes against humanity. And for what? Because Japan attacked a military target on occupied territory? How many times has the US done the same thing in the intervening years?
I doubt it was anything close to "virtually unlimited", especially since Lemay's tenure coincided with radical changes in the USAF's most hated adversary, the American Navy.
I'm reminded of a story told in Bud Anderson's "To Fly and Fight" where the author had to brief Lemay (not sure if it was FICON or Tip-Tow), and he was seriously unimpressed, calling the project impractical, essentially deriding it as unworkable. But just as he walks away, he tells the officers making the presentation to keep working on it.
I didn´t know, that it started as a bomber aircraft, thank you :)
Great video and exceptional retelling of the engineering behind the plane.
R.I.P
•Alvin S. White
•Joe Walker
Your bravery, service, and sacrifice will be remembered.
Let's take an SR-71, and make it a nuclear payload delivery system...
Gods that is a gorgeous plane!
That would be like strapping flaming cans of gasoline onto a swimsuit model and pushing her off a balcony; it spoils the beauty of the thing.
This was a super-nice video. Thanks for posting!
First time here, stumbled across your channel, glad I found it, simply fascinating stuff👍
7:50 Special coating, uses elmers glue
LOL I knew that comment would be here. But, it's military spec Elmer's... and yes, you can still eat it
Thanks for the chortle!..😁
If the Valkyrie was a woman, she'd be in every centerfold. Gorgeous plane
It's the name of a nordic goddess.
It was named after the Norse Valkyries, the servants of Odin who would fly invisibly over battlefields and be "choosers of the slain." The chosen who died in battle were honored to sit with Odin in Valhalla so they could fight with him when needed.
A true BBW
notice how much the Concorde looks like the Valk.
Thats why she's NOT a military war ship!
You deserve a million subscribers! Great work on these documentaries!
Finally !! Found my kinda channel :) watching your vids one by one... Great info man !!!
yooooooooo, that's an awesome shirt!
Varys has an obsession with USAF because he knows USAF is the key to the Iron Throne. Dragons have no chance, White Walkers have no chance when you control a fleet of USAF pilots!
What can dragons and white walkers do against an A10's 30mm depleted uranium cannon rounds or an F16's AIM-120 AMRAAM with fire-and-forget?
It's a tough fight..
Really? Because it was during Vietnam when the USAF obtained world air superiority and that has yet to change. F-15s are about to be retired and have yet to suffer a single loss, not one!
lol?
Are you laughing about our losses? Are you twelve years old?
Nixon actually won as the north signed a peace deal. But when Nixon was forced out Ford did not honor to bring back the bombers if the north did anything aggressive. Most do not know that if Nixon would have stayed president not only would the Vietnam war ended but the south would have remained a separate country.
Well done, sir! Great subject as well.
Your calm voice and narration style makes your vids much more enjoyable than the many overexcited youtubers!
A bit of trivia...
The "discovery" of the "effectiveness" of the Soviet SAM belt was due to the Powers U-2 shootdown. However, post Cold War it was revealed that while the SA-2 did shoot the U-2 down, the cost to Soviet air defenses was very high: many pursuing MiGs were shot down, and it took dozens of SAM shots until one hit the U-2. It wasn't one shot one kill by any means. While this certainly doesn't mean that Soviet SAM technology was poor, it does mean that it wasn't the wonder-weapon the Air Force feared. Certainly, it was effective over (for example) Vietnam, but that environment was wholly different: the aircraft were flying much lower (although faster).
The XB-70 led indirectly to the development of the F-15 Eagle. The Soviets thought that the XB-70 would go in to full production, and, having at least some access to flight data through espionage and good old fashioned guesswork, they assumed it would fly in the envelope it was advertised (77k/ft, Mach 3). So, knowing their SAM batteries couldn't do all the work themselves they designed and developed and built the MiG-25. As a pure interceptor, it was a great aircraft...for chasing down supersonic bombers. However, either through paranoia or disinformation or a combination of both, the USAF assumed that the MiG-25 was a high-performance fighter aircraft capable of high-speed, high-maneuverability turns. Realizing that the F4 Phantom would be no match for such an aircraft, coupled with experiences (again) over Vietnam, the US set out to design something that could hopefully match the MiG-25 in air-to-air combat, and came up with the F-15 Eagle.
In 1973, Viktor Belenko defected from the USSR in his MiG-25 to northern Japan. US intelligence services pored over the aircraft and were shocked by what they found (also informed by Belenko himself): the MiG-25 was no high-performance dogfighter, but a high-Mach interceptor. In low/no drag areas, steel screws weren't even drilled in flush (no reason to - there'd be no airflow in those parts). The engines were very low hour rated before requiring replacement or rebuilding, the radar system wasn't solid state but rather tube-based (a good thing, in the event of a nuclear combat environment: EMP proof), and so on.
Now, going further down the rabbit hole, when the Soviets saw the performance of the F-15 in combat against MiGs (particularly in the Bekka Valley in the hands of the Israelis, with a reported _80-0_ kill ratio), they went on a crash course to build another generation of fighter aircraft, and in the mid 1980s rolled out the MiG-29 and Su-27: both excellent aircraft, as well!
In October 1962 Rudolf Anderson was killed when his U2 was shot down by a SA-2 battery over Cuba, that one didn't need multiple launches nor where pursuing fighters hit by accident. So the US wasn't overestimating the effectiveness of Soviet anti-aircraft technology when they stopped U2 overflights. The U2 overflights in the late 1950's were a serious embarrassment to the Soviets and anti-aircraft missile development was stepped up and prioritised. The later losses to Soviet SA-2 missiles can to some large measure be put down to the provocations of the U2 program.
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The other issue with Migs flying against Israel, was that the enemy pilots were not that well trained and because they were losing a fair few, their replacements weren't much better.
So much misguided opinions in this post.
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Thanks for this. I remember seeing the first images of the XB70 in an aircraft magazine I subscribed to in my teens. I was a cadet in the R.A.A.F. and was totally obsessed with everything to do with flight.
The magazine had a full page image of the XB70 on the cover, and I can remember the smell of the fresh print on paper. Anyway, so much for all of that. It's great to know that I will be able to actually see the real thing in the museum. Fabulous! ... ♤♡♤ ...
Excellent content. Thank you so much for your time.
XB-70 the most beautiful jet plane ever built! Sexy & sleek!
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Along with SR-71
But i don't buy that it was ever intended to be a bomber. Its all engine from the intakes back. Are you going to drop bombs out directly in front of the intakes? Seems risky. And where do bombs even go?
@@corycrandell2682 There's a bomb bay situated between the two intake ducts. Each duct curves around the bomb bay (and landing gear wells) on its way back to the engine plenum. During flight test they hoisted up a fairly big instrumentation pod into the bomb bay.
@@caav56 I think the two of them were dating in the late 60s. ;)
Could you do a video about the Tupolev Tu-144
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Phenomenal content and production value.
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Great job on the Video! It was very informative.
7:51 "It took a further 18 months to find a fix by lining the inside with a special coating"... PVA glue?
That "special Coating" looks like Elmer's Glue.
probably was
It's great stuff - it's what held the Mosquito bomber together.
Its the first form of epoxy paint formulated by a 15 year old....you are very close to an answer.
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Thanks for another interesting and well-produced mini doc.
I"ve seen it in person. It's huge.
That’s a fairly often pattern
I saw a few sr-71s in person and those things are bigger than I ever imagined
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The Valkyrie makes an SR-71 look like a Cessna.
Of course it was a star fighter that caused the collision.
why do you say that? (I'm unfamiliar with planes)
K0wface because they were shit planes that the UK usa an nato only bought because of a shit load of bribery.
K0wface their small wings meant they were easy to crash. Those same small wings let them fly at Mach 2 before many other planes, though.
K0wface They (the F-104) were widely considered to be pilot killers and just flat out dangerous to fly. They were often called 'widowmaker', although they were neither the first nor the last plane to earn that moniker. It was a specially-modified F-104 that almost killed Chuck Yeager, as chronicled in the book and movie by the same name, "The Right Stuff". I personally find it ironic that the 104 pilot that collided with the XB-70 and Yeager were both alums of the X-15 program. The F-104 was so similar to the X-15 overall that perhaps reflexes honed on the X-15 betrayed them at the wrong time. Just my opinion, of course. Both men were highly-skilled pilots and veterans of the X plane programs so they have to be considered as two of the most highly skilled pilots of their time.
First of all, the F-104 was NOT used by the UK.
Secondly, the version of the F-104 operated by NATO air forces was quite a different version to the simple interceptor version used in relatively small numbers by the USAF
Thirdly, the accident rate of the F-104 was very much in line with contemporary aircraft in use by other air forces (such as the UK's English Electric Lightning).
The West German Air force and Navy had a higher accident rate than other air arms mainly down to the way their F-104 pilots were trained. The Belgians, Dutch etc had a lower attrition rate in comparison.
The F-104 is much maligned, unfairly in my view.
For the record, the version in which Yeager had a serious accident was the NF-104, which a highly modified F-104 capable of zoom climbing to over 100,000. At that altitude, it needed reaction thrusters to provide control as the air is too thin for conventional rudders, ailerons etc to work. It was on a zoom flight of that type that Yeager had a problem - so it was nothing to do with any inherent problem in the basic F-104 design.
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Maybe they are Infantry or Artillery? Fliers wouldn't dislike any video about such a sweet machine.
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Well, plus minus side of rocket technology is that they 'killed' innovative aircraft technology such as SR-71, U-2 and XB-70 (though U-2s still used today).
BTW, how cool looking the aircraft is!
I wonder how aircraft technology would have continued to advance if rockets were never used. Could make for an interesting alternate history video?
Alpha Adhito - No one "killed" the technology, more effective or cheaper (though, arguably less cool) technology replaced it. The technology still exists.
As i live near the usaf museum i have seen this aircraft many times. It is awe inspiring and one of my favorites. Thanks for the great video.
I love geeking out on your channel, great content gents
Although the Valkyrie was a warbird, it also was very interesting aviation technique!
I believe it was a very good testing platform.