Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!amdcad!military From: drk@MIT.EDU (David R. Kohr) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: The XB-70 bomber program. Message-ID: <27390@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 21 Sep 89 05:19:13 GMT Sender: cdr@amdcad.AMD.COM Lines: 19 Approved: military@amdcad.amd.com From: David R. Kohr A friend of mine recently saw one of the prototype models of the XB-70 strategic bomber at an aviation museum in Dayton, Ohio. He said it was a huge thing, with 6 big engines on the wings, and that it looked a lot like the Concorde. The writeup for the XB-70 exhibit said that only 2 were ever built. Could someone please tell me more about this plane: who built it, what happened to the program (was it superceded by the B-2 program, or a part of that program), how many prototypes were actually built, what missions the plane was to fulfill, what were is performance specifications (speed, payload, range, altitude), what was its armament, and so forth? Thanks, David R. Kohr M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory Group 45 ("Radars 'R' Us") email: KOHR@LL.LL.MIT.EDU or DRK@ATHENA.MIT.EDU phone: (617)981-0775 (work), (617)527-3908 (home)