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From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: XB70
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Date: 22 Sep 89 06:52:08 GMT
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From: nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (William M. Aldo)
>From: David R. Kohr <drk@MIT.EDU>
>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.

I can asure you that the XB70 has six (6) engines; however, they are
not beneath the wings -- the intakes are beneath the fuselage at the
wing-roots -- the engines are behind the intakes. You could say that
the XB70 supercedes the B-2 -- it superceded the B-1/B-1B also. It
was designed in the early to mid-60's as the B-52 was only designed
to get us through the sixties (the B-52 is 30+ years old.....and
still kicking). Sorry, but I can't give any other info without
going through my books.

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Mark Aldo                                      (osu-cis)!dsacg1!waldo

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