I can't imagine anyone's stomach not taking a dip when the narrator mentioned chase planes. Heartbreaker.

Its weird watching the old trucks and vehicles around the XB-70. Looks like they got caught in a time warp.

@joeshupienis4388

2 жыл бұрын

Cars and trucks are developed with planned obsolescence to encourage consumers to buy the latest model every year or two. Aircraft have always been designed for longevity and lifelong support, due to their extreme cost and to meet the stringent specifications of their customers. Having said that the motor vehicles are funny and ugly, while the aircraft are beautiful, even to this day, where many of the aircraft seen here are still used today, some 60 years later!

Great video ! USAF & NASA at their best. 😊

Why don't we have videos like this anymore, this is beyond fascinating. I appreciate how much detail they went into.

There was some super sharp hard working people back then, everything hands on.

Fabulous machine. A technical wonder. Great video, very instructive, thanks for the upload.

Futuristic then and now What a beautiful aircraft I saw it up close in Dayton Ohio 😎

11:26 Tractor-feed printout paper. I remember the sound of those printers...LOUD!!!

@barryrudge1576

3 жыл бұрын

Called a teleprinter, I used to use them regularly in the early 70's. To send a message you first typed the message onto a roll of tape that punched out rows of holes. If you made a mistake you've have to back space hit the key that punched 4 holes that registered nothing when you fed it through the reader. Very mechanical and at one time I could read a message directly off the punched tape.

I just saw the remaining XB70 at the Air Force National Museum in Dayton Ohio. Crazy how large it is. Took two days to go thru the whole place. If you like planes, there’s over 350 they say.

Amazing plane and amazing documentation! So much detail. I love it.

Absolutely beautiful plane very far ahead of its time. How did we get so far ahead in such a very short time

@gillesbueno1153

4 жыл бұрын

Douglas Warner simple: you were by far the wealthiest country in the World, we were at the peak of the Cold War, you were about to send men to the moon, your pop culture was at its peak and spreading throughout the World, music, cinema, litterature.in other words, you were the leader of the Western World. April 2020.

@pikefolsom6061

3 жыл бұрын

Aliens

@gregtaylor6146

3 жыл бұрын

..... by not wasting money on 'social projects.'

@LuciFeric137

3 жыл бұрын

@Najaf right

@LuciFeric137

3 жыл бұрын

The modern era was essentially created from 1939 to 1946. We peaked in 1969.

Most awesome plane ever made

que maravilla de avion, era una epoca increible, felicitaciones

@davidgeoghegan8506

2 жыл бұрын

Incredible

It’s mind boggling the scale and complexity of programs like these. Almost every reasonably conceivable event and data accounted for.

Fascinating!

very cool stuff

That was when America was on top of the game...

How loud that plane must have been in full afterburner.

Very interesting time, people completely gave themselves for progress.

So beautiful in person:)

8:10 WHOA ! Inspections performed after 25 hours of flight time? I think it's ten times that now.

North American Aviation designs: P 51, X 15, XB 70, Apollo Command Module.

@vibrolax

3 жыл бұрын

North American Rockwell: Space Shuttle Orbiter

@ronjon7942

2 жыл бұрын

Laf, and the X-15 and Shuttle; might have to leave that to a Blender renderer.

This is gold!

Amazing

This remarkable aircraft predates the original Star Trek TV series by almost exactly TWO YEARS.

110000000 bits = 13.75 megabytes of data... wowsers

@Gillymonster18

Жыл бұрын

That’s a mountain of data back then. Didn’t even have integrated circuits yet.

super

Even the Starfighters look out of date next to this machine.

With a life cycle of 35 hours on each screaming siren of an engine, nobody was wasting time. I could waste 35 hours just interviewing the slice of pie at 5:09, wearing those, very forward for the day mind you, screaming tight slacks.

@KN4PHS

2 жыл бұрын

DUDE, that is a DUDE!

@davidbaldwin1591

2 жыл бұрын

@@KN4PHS I don't mean to dispute that, but the person with the blue/white shirt has breasts and heels, and she has hips.

@jeffb8561

2 жыл бұрын

She was a hottie! Must have had every guy there wanting to take her out on a date! I know I would have been!

wow I loved that 🙂

I expect to be kept updated on the progress.

I wonder if the data collected during this program is still available. It could be useful for the companies that are developing supersonic business jets.

@Gillymonster18

Жыл бұрын

Technologically this program has been left far behind. Since then we’ve advanced so much in electronics and material science. It obviously worked and I feel could easily be applied in a modern aircraft but our thinking has changed so much. Even just the idea of supersonic business jets is uncertain: if they’re even worth it, would they be considered acceptable? Still, it’s amazing what these people accomplished. Doing so much math and design work by hand. Before ready-made calculators and integrated circuits..

Sooo, it stands to reason there are Progress Reports 1-15 and maybe 17+? Pleasepleasepleaseplease...

3:01 so beautiful

North American was ahead of Lockheed at the time. Both are great American companies

5:13 uh lá lá...

We used to be so cool

Thunderbirds are GO.

Joe Cotton once saved the XB-70 from destruction using a paper clip removed from the flight plan, and some simple household tools he kept in his briefcase.

Is the airframe in the film the one that crashed or the one now in the museum?

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

Both appear to have been used in the film. In at least 1 shot, the tail number ends 01, which is the one in the museum. In 21:40, you can see the tail number end in 07, which is the plane that crashed.

110,000,000 bits of information stored in 90 minutes. was that the Nasa recorder pallet,, or the AF recorder info??,, or both??. Hmm. Just wow anyways.

All of those parts, people, and logistics and only 2 of these planes were built?

@brianhiles8164

3 жыл бұрын

_Three._ One of the lesser “advertised“ aspects of the XB-70A prototype joint AF and NASA flight assessment project, was that a third _Valkyrie_ was 95% finished when the presidential decree was made to terminate the bomber program. It was immediately scrapped. Four prototypes had been initially ordered. Too bad. Government-funded projects are typically not ameniable to the foresight of museum preservation. I guess the 12,000 lb of titanium and the rest mainly of high tensile stainless steels was just too valuable to not reutilize. Titanium is still expensive nowadays, even though it is now locally mined and smelted due to a new industrial process, but back in the era of the _Valkyrie_ and the _Blackbird,_ it is to be noted that all the titanium utilized for the fabrication of the latter aircraft, and _probably_ the former as well, was surreptitiously purchased at great expense by the CIA _from the USSR,_ which was at the time the only source in the world for industrial quantities of that metal.

@joeshupienis4388

2 жыл бұрын

Development of Mach 18 ICBMs rendered Mach 3 bombers irrelevant for WMD delivery before pencil was ever set to paper by the XB-70 designers. The project was really created to study high Mach flight platforms as a government gift to commercial airlines, and for tactical aircraft. The outcome was that even though Mach 3 was possible, and more fuel efficient high-Mach engines were on the horizon, the limited maneuverability of Mach-3+ flight precluded any tactical use, and a break-even passenger fare would exceed $4,000 for a 2,000 mile transoceanic flight (á la Concorde) per passenger. And that $4,000 in 1967 translates to $34,000 in today's watered-down, inflation-devalued "money".

What was the year when this footage was shot ?

@smark1180

3 ай бұрын

It's dated 31 DECEMBER 1965. So before then.

I have parts belonging to AV-2

@ronjon7942

2 жыл бұрын

Which parts? Spill! That would be interesting to read about. You’re a lucky collector.

I've never seen a picture of the bomb bay open. Has anyone else seen it?

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

There's no bomb bay because this wasn't a bomber prototype, but an experimental aircraft.

@vertisjohnson219

2 жыл бұрын

That what was to have been a weapons bay carried test equipment only.

Too bad about the one that crashed,and ended the program.

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

There were 2 B-70 programs, and the crash ended neither of them. As a weapons system, the B-70 was already over in 1961, before any aircraft had been built. Instead, both planes were flown fore experimental purposes, as the US was pursuing a civilian SST program, powered by a civilian version of the B-70's engine. That program continued on after the crash, with its last flight in 1969.

To bad Boeing didn't have any engineers that could develop a bomber that could fly faster than mach 1.

@belacickekl7579

3 жыл бұрын

You do realize that Boeing bought Rockwell/NA, right?

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

Boeing was one of the finalists for the B-70, and their version was definitely capable of flying faster than Mach 1.

@MrShobar

2 жыл бұрын

Boeing won the contract to build the SST.

Unlimited resources and 'Can Do'.

Yrs, You know the Russians used this Design to Make the SU-27 Flanker.

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

It barely looks, and flies anything like the Su-27. The Russians didn't begin work on the Su-27 until 1969, the year in which the B-70 was sent to the USAF museum.

@ronjon7942

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the Tu-4?

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronjon7942 what about the Tu-4?

That was 1965. Just think what we have in 2021.

@raffiaroyan1118

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I think the 60s was the peak of aerospace research and development, all we got nowadays are pork projects, cost overruns and products that don’t meet their goals

@dougtaylor7724

3 жыл бұрын

@@raffiaroyan1118 Back then they never considered a project was impossible, their thinking was “we just haven’t figured it out yet.”

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing we can afford to put into production.

La verdad, con el paso del tiempo, mas y más absurda fue la razón por la cual dieron de baja el programa XB 70. Acaso el B 52 no es obsoleto a los misiles tierra-aire?? No es obsoleto el B-1B ?? Y por qué no hicieron igual los rusos que hoy por hoy se pabonean con el TU-160??? Tendría que re vivir !!!!

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

The B-70 relied on speed and altitude to elude air defenses. Soviet technology advanced to negate speed and altitude performance. Newer aircraft are arguably obsolete, but have a better chance because they can fly lower, under enemy radar, enjoy a reduced radar cross section and are harder to detect, or use more sophisticated electronic warfare gear.

@guillermomarcucci2582

2 жыл бұрын

@@winternow2242 Si ya se todo ese tipo de cosas. El B-52 no fue diseñado precisamente para el vuelo bajo, para eludir radares, y ahí está. Por otra parte, Bush hijo, luego de la guerra de Irak, pidió un bombardero supersónico Mach 3, mínimo o más en lo posible.

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

@@guillermomarcucci2582 do you have any evidence that a mach 3 bomber is in development? The B-21 proposal was in 2014, and it's barely supersonic. The Invasion of Iraq was nearly 20 years ago, and there's no word of a manned Mach 3 bomber.

@guillermomarcucci2582

2 жыл бұрын

@@winternow2242 tu eres de Estados Unidos?? Porque de ser así, lo que yo digo sobre la directiva de Bush hijo fue noticia pública, vale hombre, que hasta yo me enteré por la CNN. Se especulo mucho con un proyecto ultra secreto Aurora, bombardeo de Mach 6. Las especificaciones generales de Bush eran de un bombardero Mach 3, mínimo y una carga bélica en sus bodegas superior a la de un B-52 en armas convencionales.

@winternow2242

2 жыл бұрын

@@guillermomarcucci2582 "Aurora" isn't news. Firstly, there's no evidence, only rumors. Secondly, those rumors are way older than either President Bush. Can you actually link an article that actually quotes a source?

Shame that yahoo pilot Joe Walker took it upon himself to 'kamikaze' into ship 2.

@davidbaldwin1591

3 жыл бұрын

I also like the comment of some, who pointed out this whole thing was a risky low speed, highly repeated photo op, that from a technical point was totally unnecessary. You could say this mismatched, and tiring formation flight had a built in danger, when you add the human factor. All for promotion, & what safety officer signed off on this?

@MrShobar

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidbaldwin1591 Several were reprimanded for this largely unauthorized commercial promotion (for General Electric).

@joeshupienis4388

2 жыл бұрын

At the low speed, the wake turbulence from the XB-70 was a complete unknown. Unfortunately Joe Walker's aircraft was the first experience of the XB-70's wake, and was overpowered by it. Catastrophe followed. Such is the nature of test flight.

@ronjon7942

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure I’d consider Mr. Walker anything but one of the world’s best pilots. He was instrumental in the X-15 program. I would defer to his excellence that the tragic accident was due to miscalculation.

@gregtaylor6146

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronjon7942 - Not quite sure what you're saying there Ron ....especially that last sentence? Soory, but my point still stands.