November 14, 2006

Shieldmaiden

The Valkyrie

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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 one.

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  1. Posted November 16, 2006 at 10:05 am | Permalink

    so where was it? was it still at the museum in Galveston?