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XB-70A Valkyrie taking off in August 1965 The XB-70's maiden flight was on 21 September 1964. [ 85 ] In the first flight test, between Palmdale and Edwards AFB, one engine had to be shut down shortly after take-off, and an undercarriage malfunction warning meant that the flight was flown with the undercarriage down as a precaution, limiting ...
Walker was killed on June 8, 1966, when his F-104N Starfighter chase aircraft collided with a North American XB-70 Valkyrie. [13] At an altitude of about 25,000 ft (7.6 km) [ 14 ] Walker's Starfighter was one of five aircraft in a tight group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104 drifted into contact with the XB-70's ...
The U.S. Air Force's second North American XB-70A Valkyrie – named Air Vehicle 2 (AV-2) – reaches a maximum speed of Mach 3.08 and maintains it for 20 minutes. It is the highest Mach number ever reached by an XB-70. April 13 – President of Iraq Abdul Salam Arif dies in the crash of a Royal Iraqi Air Force de Havilland DH.104 Dove 1 in ...
NASA participated heavily in the design and testing of the XB-70 Valkyrie in the mid to late 1960s. NASA and the United States Air Force had a joint agreement to use the second XB–70A prototype for high–speed research flights in support of the proposed SST program. These plans went awry on June 8, 1966, when the second XB–70 crashed ...
October 12 – On its third test flight, the United States Air Force′s first North American XB-70A Valkyrie – named Air Vehicle 1 (AV-1) – reaches supersonic speeds for the first time. October 13 – The first production Learjet, a Model 23, is delivered. October 16 – The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
Wednesday's plane crash that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skating team members recalls memories of another tragedy nearly 64 years ago.
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash. On ...
He was head of the B-58 Hustler and XB-70 test programs, and was flying in the ill-fated formation flight that resulted in the loss of XB-70 A/V2 on June 8, 1966. [4] He retired from the Air Force in 1968 having been involved in aeronautical research for 22 of his 26 years.