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"I know someone (now perished) that was on the B70 project"

God bless 'im.

That was a beautiful plane. We lose more cool planes filming commercials... B-70, F-22 prototype are two.

He wasn't in the one that crashed was he?

Oh no. He was a draftsman/ then engineer later.

Did you know the B70 was only tested to 80% of its potential?

I still think it would have been an effective platform for several years. In a couple of years it would have had SRAM(ancestor) capability to clear the way, and (Y)F-12/F108 escort.

I am looking for an image of the Valkyrie in flight. In this image you can clearly see the intensity of the wing vortex that got the F104.

However I think a different airplane from the F104 might not have been sucked in the way it did. The F104 was a lightweight aircraft with the T tail. Had one of the other aircraft been there, say the F4(much heavier etc), as it pitched up it would have vectored up and backwards and away I think.

Wolf