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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 9/8/2002 9:14:15 AM   
Dago Red



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Status: offline 		Does anyone know where I can get valkyrie plans or kits. This is one of my favorite planes and would love to build such a plane.
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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 9/9/2002 2:48:43 PM   
wiktorsz


 

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Check this link
http://www.pjmodelclassics.be/
Click models and go down the list.
Really cool plans and model.
Regards


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Valkyrie XB-70 Plans - 9/9/2002 3:15:13 PM   
Paul Siemons



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Go to this website; [url]www.vth.de[/url] they have plans available with a wingspan : 1620 mm.
length : 2660 mm.
flaps,retract,etc.
Plannumber : 3200995
Site are mostly in German language. Visa accepted.




Greetings from Antwerp ; Belgium

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/7/2002 9:58:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		XB-70 valkyrie I was there when the first one was built by North American at plant 42 in Palmdale CA. I remember it well she was one very pretty bird. THe only 2000 mile an hour bomber of her size the US ever had.
I know a few models have been built I would love to see one fly just once. I guess I'm showing my age here.

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/8/2002 6:37:50 AM   
Dago Red



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Status: offline 		I have 2 plastic models of the valkyrie. Thats awsome that you were there, I bet that was awsome. thanks

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/16/2002 11:06:57 PM   
Damnathius



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Status: offline 		r1morris,

My father worked on the XB-70 at Plant 42. He used to tell me about how #1 was so much heavier than #2 due to lots of patchwork and problems with the honeycomb structure. Still an outstandingly beautiful bird.

I also recall him bringing home some instrumentation and stuff from the crashed one that he had found at the local scrap yard years later. At least I *think* it was from the XB-70.

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/17/2002 12:15:04 AM   
Dago Red



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Status: offline 		thats neat. Id figure #1 was more heavier, trial and error. I saw a piece of one up for sale on E-bay--Id like to have got it but I dont have the money to spend on it.

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/17/2002 6:24:08 AM   
Damnathius



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Status: offline 		Well Dago, you can always make a trip out to the Mojave Desert and visit the crash site... There's still pieces of the plane to be found out there. Small pieces, but pieces nonetheless. If you do a search for the plane on the net, I'm sure the site that documents recent finds at the crash site will come up for you. I seem to recall they mentioned lots of little honeycomb bits... some up to 2". Also some interesting then and now photographs taken from the same viewpoint of the crash site.

I think my Pa told me that #1 weighed around 100,000 lbs more than #2.

To this day I think of that crash as one of the most tragic experimental mishaps to have ever occurred.

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/17/2002 7:07:40 AM   
Dago Red



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Status: offline 		Ill have to go out there sometime. I to think it was a the most tragic experimental mishap and loss of a great plane.

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/17/2002 4:47:37 PM   
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Status: online 		The XB-70 is definitely a milestone in aircraft design & construction! This fellow's website is awesome: http://www.labiker.org/xb70.html

Enjoy it if you haven't seen it already.

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1 of my 2 xb-70's - 10/18/2002 2:18:34 AM   
Dago Red



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Status: offline 		here is my latest xb. it took a year to build---on and off of course. nice site

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XB-70 - 10/18/2002 3:43:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		My Dad tested the engines here at Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma, TN. They even set up a throttle quadrant and controls with instrumentation and the pilots came here to learn how to run the engines. I remember seeing a picture of Bob White with some of the engineers my Dad worked with operating one of the engines in the test cell.

Jerry

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Re: XB-70 - 10/18/2002 4:09:11 AM   
DICKEYBIRD



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Status: online 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by PT21Flyer
My Dad tested the engines here at Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullahoma, TN.[/QUOTE]

I'll bet THAT rattled some windows!!

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XB-70 valkyrie plans or kits - 10/18/2002 6:48:58 AM   
Dago Red



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Status: offline 		Its amazing how many people have worked on the plane, and have written in this forum, thanks.I found out those plan for the xb has a 5.4 foot wingspan and is 8.8 feet long. Im not sure what engines are used?

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XB-70 - 11/29/2002 10:07:46 PM   
Bob Paris


 

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Status: offline 		There was a small free flight kit with a profile fus, and was for a .049 pusher. I have a kit, and I also built one years ago, and boxed out the profile fus. and made it three chanel. It flew great, and lands really scale...nose high.

Soft landings, always,
Bob of Maui

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