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From: tggsu@resonex.UUCP (Tom Gulvin Root)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: More oldies...
Message-ID: <161@resonex.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 21:50:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 21:50:52 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Sep-84 08:09:27 EDT
Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Now that the B-36 has been trashed around, how about another famous bomber?

In the 1950's, the USAF was starting its first of a series of proposals
to replace the B-52. A much later proposal gave us the B-1B, but only to
assist the B-52, not replace it. In the '50s, higher - faster - bigger
was better. Intercontinental range, mach 3 sustained, massive bomb
load - these were the requirements of North American's XB-70. Originally
designed with 'miracle zip fuels' in mind, this monster used the actual
supersonic shock wave for 'compression lift' at high speeds. Its wing
tips folded down in flight. One survives to this day in a museum.

Ok, try to answer these questions:
- Why did the wings fold down?
- What was it made out of?
- What wiped out prototype #2?
- What was the original fuel (and why was it dropped)?
- What (and who) killed it?
Fantastic machine - Disney even put it in a cartoon for the DOD (what
pseudo popular recent movie had a clip of this film?).
	Tom Gulvin - Resonex, Inc. - Sunnyvale, CA.