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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
Long before the Concorde SST there was a Mach 3 Bomber known as the Valkyrie an excellent delta dart design that achieved such speed by riding the shockwave its body created and folding wings with no defensive armament just pure speed. A beautiful plane to behold.
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The XB-70 was a gorgeous looking brute, there's no doubt about that. It was also the only design ever to employ compression lift. For some reason no other aircraft design has even attempted this. The 2 Valkyries completed were used as experimental machines only as the requirement for a Mach 3 bomber was dropped. They would have been ruinously expensive to bring into service.
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