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Originally posted by Phantom View Post
I'm tracking the Valkyrie, tell me about the fighter albeit more like interceptor from that era.
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Originally posted by Icarus View Post
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Originally posted by roxndirt64 View PostEA-6B Prowler pleaseI solemnly swear to "over-celebrate" the smallest of victories.~Lucky B*st*rd~
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Originally posted by roxndirt64 View PostEA-6B Prowler please
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Woody
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Originally posted by Valkpilot View Post
The NiceSky 70 mm version had it with the wingtips up. It's primary flaw was the landing gear. But theoretically they could do it like the Lindberg model where if you glued them on one way, the tips were don but if you reversed them the tip were even. And speaking of the YF-12/SR-71, the Valk put lie to the supposed top speed of Mach 3, because if the XB-70 was cancelled because it couldn't go fast enough to evade SAMs, then why build a spy plane that only went that fast?
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Originally posted by Icarus View Post
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Originally posted by Hoomi View Post
The Valkyrie also scared the bejeebers out of the Soviet Union, prompting them to dump a lot of resources and effort into developing a fighter that would be capable of defending against such a weapons delivery system. An impressive aircraft, particularly considering available technology when it was developed.
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Originally posted by Phantom View Post
I believe officially the airforce only ever admitted to mach 3.2 for the Blackbird. Before my father retired from the Airforce back in the late 90's he worked at Tyndall AFB in FL. There I met a retired SR-71 pilot who told me, the SR-71 could do Mach 3.2 with one engine shut down....
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Originally posted by Valkpilot View Post
Before I got to see it at the Cleveland Airshow I got to see an SR-71 taking off in Okinawa. And I doubt if we'll ever truly know the Blackbird's top speed, but we do know it could outrun SAMs and Foxbats.
There's a few YouTube videos done by former Blackbird pilots that talk about seeing Foxbats trying to climb up to the Blackbirds to intercept and tumbling out of the sky, due to their engines ceiling limitations, I'm guessing compressor stall. That's saying something considering Foxbat pilots also wear pressure suits!
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Originally posted by Woodcock View Post
A Prowler would be totally cool. But if they were to ever do it. It is very important the make working air brakes. There is one of the owners of MRC that use to fly in an A-6 squadron. This is the one and only reason we have a beautiful A-6 in the MRC line up, and I actually own an A-6 from MRC. I haven't flown it yet it hangs in my home office, I will fly it some day. But to be honest I'll probably purchase a back up before I head to the field with it some day. The bottom line, until this guy stands up and commands them to make an EA-6B it's never going to happen LOL. To much risk in their minds. Sad but true.
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Woody
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This thread is over 2 years old, so I’m curious ............................... Since this thread began, of all the suggestions of what people wanted, how many of those actually came to fruition?
As for me? I’d still like to see a Vulcan. It doesn’t have to be a quad. A twin will do.
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