Xb 70 Valkyrie Crash Video
32K 784K views 4 years ago #thehistoryguy #ushistory #XB70Valkyrie In June 1966, a photo shoot involving abXB-70A No. 2, an F-4 Phantom, an F-5, a T-38 Talon, and an F-104 Starfighter, went.
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Find out why a Lockheed F-104N Starfighter operated by NASA collided with an Air Force North American XB-70 Valkyrie over California's high desert near Edwar.
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The XB-70 was one of the planes that did a group photoshoot, but soon things started to go wrong. Flight Research Center chief pilot Joe Walker's F-104 was suddenly drawn to the Valkyrie and clipped the right wing tip, rolled over, and struck the XB-70's right vertical fin, It sheered most of the left vertical fin and then exploded as it.
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The second XB-70A (AV-2) flew multiple times at Mach 3, including a sustained, 32-minute, Mach 3 flight in May 1966. Valkyrie AV-2 was lost in June 1966 after an F-104 collided with it in mid-air. F-104 pilot Joe Walker (NASA) and XB-70A copilot Maj Carl Cross (USAF) died. North American pilot Al White ejected from the XB-70A, but was badly.
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On June 8th in 1966, the XB-70 took off from near the Santa Barbara coast on a test flight, flown by Chief Test Pilot Major Carl Cross. It was accompanied by several other aircraft, including a T-38 trainer, an F-4 Phantom, an F-5 and an F-104N Starfighter. Something went horribly wrong, as the F-104N drifted into the right wing of the Valkyrie.
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XB-70 Valkyrie. Strategic Bomber Prototype. High-Speed Research Aircraft. DESCRIPTION: The B-70 bomber program resulted from an Air Force requirement for a high-speed, high-altitude strategic bomber to replace the B-52. North American engineers utilized NACA studies dealing with optimum Mach 3-6 configurations to develop the winning B-70 design.
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Jun 7 2020 Possibly Joe Walker was looking for a B-58A approaching at higher altitude while his F-104N (N813NA) inexplicably moved slightly closer to the Valkyrie and then rose suddenly so that the left tip of its horizontal stabilizer touched the XB-70's drooped wingtip.
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Aerial image of the crash site. CLUI photo. One of the largest and most unusual planes ever made, the XB-70 Valkyrie, was destroyed in an accident during a photo shoot following a regularly scheduled test mission. The photo mission was organized at the behest of a General Electric representative in order to obtain publicity photos and motion.
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With the photoshoot complete, the F-104 drifted into contact with the XB-70's right wing, flipped over, and rolling inverted, passed over the top of the Valkyrie, struck the vertical.
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In 1966, during a midair photo session following a test flight, an F-104 fighter clipped the right wing of XB-70 No. 2. The fighter rolled over the top of the Valkyrie, damaging both wings and.