No, those are the intakes for the engines. This thing cruised at mach 3+. Uber cool plane. Had honeycomb skin and actually lengthened at speed due to thermal expansion. Also, the crew had capsules that protected them if they had to eject at speed/altitude. I think they made 3, one was lost during a photo shoot/test flight. Damned shame they didn’t run with this design.
I saw one of them when I went to Wright-Pat in Ohio many years ago. You just have to stand next to them to get the full awesomeness of it!
6 engines inline of 30,000 lbs thrust each is amazing!
If I recall correctly, this design had the least amount of drag for any plane designed. Do some research, watch the videos. You’ll love it!
For a second I thought atkinson had posted this.
I knew this was all part of some fever (autism?) dream of Tiki’s
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Atkinson
all of it..
I’m real though
Most awesome looking plane ever!
Strange looking plane. The lower portion looks like it ends in a very un-aerodynamic flat surface. Am I missing something or is that a design flaw?
No, those are the intakes for the engines. This thing cruised at mach 3+. Uber cool plane. Had honeycomb skin and actually lengthened at speed due to thermal expansion. Also, the crew had capsules that protected them if they had to eject at speed/altitude. I think they made 3, one was lost during a photo shoot/test flight. Damned shame they didn’t run with this design.
Two!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XB-70
Atk
I saw one of them when I went to Wright-Pat in Ohio many years ago. You just have to stand next to them to get the full awesomeness of it!
6 engines inline of 30,000 lbs thrust each is amazing!
If I recall correctly, this design had the least amount of drag for any plane designed. Do some research, watch the videos. You’ll love it!
Lucky guy!!!
Ops: 6 engines parallel!!!
I have several videos, but not the end of the last flight of the number two until the bitter end…
Atk