The SR-71 ran on a "secret sauce" as they had their own tankers. I've seen the XB70 at the Wright
Patt museum. The first one crashed during a publicity photo shoot when a chase plane (F104)
collided with it. It really is a pretty aircraft.
Ron
--On Monday, December 01, 2008 4:04 PM -0800 Jones Beene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Ron
XB70 weighed nowhere near million pounds:
I picked that up from the third paragraph of this page:
http://www.vectorsite.net/avxb70.html
but on recheck - that detail was apparently from an original proposal, which
was scaled back in
the actual prototype.
Hey, the Valkyrie was a little before your time in the B-52 cockpit, I suppose,
but did you ever
hear anything about zip fuel back then?
Jones
