doofy Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 06:26AM
No cheating by looking at picture properties etc
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 08:36AM
I love a good cunard
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 08:47AM
The big one is an XB-70 I believe. If memory serves me right this was the 1st
plane of this type ever flown and I believe they all crashed. One of 'em was
taken out by a support plane that came up through one of its wings
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 04:47PM
For an Air Force and military history buff like myself, the answer is easy.
The large plane is the XB-70A Valkyrie, followed by a Convair B-58 Hustler chase
plane. I sat along the fence at Edwards AFB in a lawn chair with dad and my
little bros and watched one of the few public displays of this amazing
airplane's test flights.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 05:09PM
BTW, they made two full afterburner flybys at supersonic speeds for the
assembled crowd. The transition from subsonic to supersonic flight resulted in
an enormous sonic boom, like a rolling thunder strike right over our heads. My
fondest childhood memory.
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90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 05:24PM
Mr. Kim, one of these magnificent planes, XB-70A crashed when NASA's test pilot
Joe Walker's Lockheed F-104 Starfighter chase plane got sucked up over the back
of the Valkyrie during a photo op by the aerodynamic vortex created by the huge
plane's wingtips and tail. The Starfighter flipped upside down before taking out
the vertical stabilizers and a wingtip on the XB-70.
Both planes were lost, and while XB Pilot Al White safely ejected, Co-Pilot Carl
Cross was unable to escape and was killed when the Valkyrie crashed in the
desert near Barstow.
Joseph Walker, the NASA pilot in the Starfighter was also killed. A very sad day
in aviation history.
I've read story after story about this amazing plane and its development and
test flights, and the unfortunate end to this (very expensive) program.
The sole remaining XB-70B resides at the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio at
Wright Field. Been there.
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Mrkim Report This Comment Date: July 26, 2009 09:37PM
Yep, they were really cool planes 9er. I never got to see one up close (you
lucky puck!), but I did have a model of one when I was a kid. I bet by todays
avionics programs $$$ these planes whole program would look cheap
quasi Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 12:11AM
I grew up about 15 or 20 miles from the Air Force Museum and Wright Patterson
AFB. Visited the museum a few times but what has really stuck with me was living
in the flight path of the base where the B-52 bombers were constantly flying
over our house at low levels. They were part of the Strategic Air Command and if
things had gone nuclear I would have been vaporized by soviet missles pretty
quickly. My schools were even closer to the base and they didn't even bother to
teach us to duck and cover - would've been pretty useless.
quasi Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 12:13AM
Wright Patterson is where the Roswell aliens are supposedly stored, by the way.
They should be put on display at the museum, don't you think?
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 01:22AM
Dad was pretty proud of the fact that he got us escorted out of more
"restricted areas" than anyone. Never saw the Roswell spacecraft or
any of the aliens though.
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 01:45AM
Quasi, reminds me of som Billy Joel lyrics.
"I was born in '49
A cold war kid in McCarthy time
Stop 'em at the 38th Parallel
Blast those yellow reds to hell
And cold war kids were hard to kill
Under their desk in an air raid drill
Haven't they heard we won the war
What do they keep on fighting for?"
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 02:32AM
Damn you Ronald Reagan. I sure miss the cold war.
doofy Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 02:54AM
Great hearing those responses gang! Heres the link,I was looking for the
Hustler and found the cool Valkrie that I hadn't seen before.
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images.google.ca]
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 03:05AM
I'm partial to a bit of Hustler every now and then...
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 06:13AM
Keep it in your pants, 'Berto. There's some serious aircraft discussion going
on here.
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 07:56AM
I'm up for that.
But nobody commented when I posted these a few years ago...
Anyone know the second one?
90130_ Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 02:25PM
That one's easy too. It's an RAF Avro Vulcan
doofy Report This Comment Date: July 27, 2009 11:50PM
Haha Woberto! Heres my contribution from along time ago,holy faaak i been
paruzing this joint since 2005?! OMG!
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plus613.net]
woberto Report This Comment Date: July 28, 2009 05:02AM
Yes fossil, drool, corsair good!
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: July 28, 2009 05:27AM
i wanted to sit in one of the 2 corsairs @ Cavanaugh really bad, but they'd
only let you sit in an old Mig.....? that thing is like a flying sausage.
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fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: July 28, 2009 05:30AM
check out the
collection here....right down the street from me.
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