Daily Archives: November 14, 2006

Shieldmaiden

Posted by Yabu at 11:17 PM
The Valkyrie was built in 1964, was a canarded delta wing aircraft, designed to ‘ride’ on the shock wave contained between the lower fuselage and its movable, downturned wingtips. Because of kinetic heating at high speed, the B-70 was built from titanium and steel honeycomb parts. She didn’t make the cut. They made two…one crashed…I’ve touched the other [...]
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