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Originally Posted by glyn
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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Agreed Sir, Three were completed. One crashed during a media shoot (Not by any fault of her own mind you) One was donated to the Air Force museum (still there today) and One disappeared into the backrooms at NASA never to be seen again. I bet they had some real fun with testing on that particular plane.