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To: Berlin_Freeper

That’s a beauty but no comparison to the XB-70, “Valkyrie!”

I saw the aircraft while I was taxiing an Ohio ANG T-33 on Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.1959..
I almost taxied off the ramp because I could not take my eyes off of the big bird.
It was flown into Wright Patt. to be put into the US Air Force Museum.
The other prototype was lost in a, tragic, midair collision.
I got to see it later at a 42nd Bomb Wing Reunion. It is on display at Wright Patt. with the “Experimentals,” and the “Presidential” Airplanes. 2013.
If seeing the bird doesn’t take your breath away, you are not involved, at all, in aviation!


7 posted on 01/12/2024 9:37:42 PM PST by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: BatGuano
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195767/north-american-xb-70-valkyrie/
10 posted on 01/12/2024 10:25:11 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: BatGuano
I saw the aircraft while I was taxiing an Ohio ANG T-33 on Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.1959..P

1959? Perchance you mean 1969? That's when the surviving Valkarie got sent to Wright-Patterson.

11 posted on 01/13/2024 12:49:53 AM PST by Yossarian
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