[RunningWolf]

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

[RunningWolf]

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.

Here you go with the image. Do you agree with my guess/somewhat?



Wolf

[RunningWolf]

See #90

Wolf

[RFEngineer]

"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.
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I thought it was a B-58 that knocked off one of the veritcal stabilizers, resulting in the crash, not a 104...