North American XB-70 Valkyrie(Interior Views Oct. 2020)
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2020
- North American XB-70 Valkyrie cockpit and interior views!
The futuristic XB-70A was originally conceived in the 1950s as a high-altitude, nuclear strike bomber that could fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) -- any potential enemy would have been unable to defend against such a bomber.
By the early 1960s, however, new Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs) threatened the survivability of high-speed, high-altitude bombers. Less costly, nuclear-armed ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) were also entering service. As a result, in 1961, the expensive B-70 bomber program was canceled before any Valkyries had been completed or flown.
Even so, the USAF bought two XB-70As to test aerodynamics, propulsion and other characteristics of large supersonic aircraft. The first XB-70A, on display here, flew in September 1964, and it achieved Mach 3 flight in October 1965. The second Valkyrie first flew in July 1965, but in June 1966, it was destroyed following an accidental mid-air collision. The third Valkyrie was not completed.
The first XB-70A airplane continued to fly and generate valuable test data in the research program until it came to the museum in 1969. 
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This plane is why I started studying aerospace engineering. I was so impressed seeing her in the museum as a kid. I've now been working at NASA for nearly 20 years and am still awestruck looking at her! Thanks for the cockpit tour!
Do you think the Spacex type lunar lander could work ? I don't.
I don't think u are real..
@@jayeshkurdekar126 cool story.
@@dks13827 Did you think they were going to land the boosters back onto pads? If you say yes, you're a liar.
@@sedonabear2010 Not entirely accurate. I'm sure they used pencils, paper, an occasional pen... even a compass or 2.
RIP Joe Walker and Carl Cross, both loss in the June 8th 1966 crash of XB-70A No. 2. Your service lives on in our hearts and minds and we thank you for pushing the envelope.
Walker got too close, in his F-104. The XB-70's wingtip vortex was not to be trifled with.
Outside: Look like a plane from the future
Inside: EVERYTHING is analog.
I saw the future and it was ... familiar. :)
Yes, but it's performance is still from the future....
@@thetigerstripes that performance was (apart from all the engeneering of the wing tips that move and all that) in big part due to the 6 engines with afterburners and that wasnt very efficient. For today, it isnt from the future anymore.
True
What did you expect from the 50's?
Me and my kid spent hours just staring at this plane over a 3 day period this Summer. If you haven't been to the USAF museum, you're really missing out!
It's rare to get glimpses into the interior of an aircraft like this. Well done!
Thanks so much Mike!!!
There is no other aircraft like this….
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Looks like cold war age jet....
@@USAFmuseum Just curious, what did pilots use exactly to get inside the cockpit, since it's so high off the ground?
I've wanted to see high detail shots of the interior for years! Thanks.
Our website has photos on the fact sheet, we are adding more today!
Isn't youtube awesome 👍
Yeah, I'm with you on that but, for me... that's every aircraft I see at air shows! 😁 I've seen this one and many others at Wright-Patterson back in '88...
Imagine getting this beast up to altitude and then fire-walling the engines to full power!!
When viewing the exterior in the museum, this aircraft’s design and condition looks like it is the latest in technology and ready for testing. Inside it is old tech, scuffed paint, analog steam gauges, and highly complex. What is truly mind-boggling is this on paper design was created only five decades after the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
Magnificently done! I could actually READ the instruments unlike so many videos done by others. This was an incredible treat. If it was possible to film every square inch of that aircraft, I'd watch it all.
When I was a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol at summer encampment at Seward AFB, TN in 1965, I believe, we were taken to the Arnold Research test facility for a tour. I remember seeing one of the wing air inlet section in the wind tunnel being tested. Quite an amazing technological achievement for the time. I'd love to seen her fly! I need to get back to Wright-Patterson AFB museum soon to see her.
I first heard of AV-2 when I was 9 years old in 1966. I 2004 I found the crash site, collected some small parts and also assist Maj.Carl Cross sister in locating the site. I always planed and still do plan on seeing AV-1 and visiting the museum. And now at 64 years old I finally see the cockpit in detail. Thank you for posting this.
Holy cow... that climb schedule!
As an AVGeek, what a treat. As a videographer, this video is stunning. Perfectly lit and it's obvious that all your shots were well thought out and rehearsed before hitting the record button. Fantastic job!
This is a dream come true!! I can't thank you guy's enough for making this video!! I hope to see more like this of other aircraft in your collection!! I'm an A&P Mechanic and I love seeing these video's!! Let me know if you guy's ever need help! Keep up the GREAT work! 👍👍
Thanks soo much Ryan!!!
Unbelievable amount of design and assembly work for just two aircraft ... but so impressive in function and looks!
Great video!!!! Love the closeup views of specific instrument and gauge clusters! Outstanding!🇺🇸
Wow... I've been enamored with that plane, and being able to see the inside of the cockpit is amazing! Thank you for making this!
I'm always fascinated by looking at these old technological marvels - and peering closely at the "ancient" hardware they had available to achieve such mind-boggling performance. The XB-70 by even today's standards looks like something from hundreds of years in the future, yet the switches and instruments in the cockpit look just as they indeed were - from the late 50s-early-60s. It's like looking at the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space capsules in museums. Just by the looks of their cockpits, you'd swear somebody ran down to the local home-town hardware store to buy screws, toggle switches and flashlight bulbs to build them with.
That's not much different than today, some planes use push buttons but many still use toggle and rheostat switches. That's the way it is in aircraft, you don't want to be flying along and shit hits the fan and you're trying to hit a touch screen lol.
Could you imagine if they could build a new airframe and computerize all of the systems? Utilize even some of the more modern engines available to the military. I don’t know if it would have any usefulness for todays world but it would be an interesting adventure.
Proud to say that I've seen this beast at Wright-Patterson back in '88!
Very Well Done! Thank you. I followed all these guys through the late 50's and 60's. It was so exciting and they were so good that you did not really appreciate the danger they were actually in. The crash that killed Walker was sad but avoidable. I grew up in aviation and I have been devoted to air safety ever since.
Happy to get to see the cockpit inside one of our greatest aircraft ever, thank you Museum of the Air Force!
This footage is top notch. Excellent quality and detail. Thank you very much.
An incredible aircraft! Please continue with videos like this for all the planes in the museum. History isn't just for a chosen few. Visitors are not allowed to breathe on any of them and are lucky to even lay eyes on them. Different story to friends after hrs.
Absolutely fascinated by all of the X-planes. Thanks for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this video of the cockpit. I would love to see inside some of the others especially the B36
Thanks for putting these great videos up!
I've had the privilege of visiting the museum years ago & this aircraft is one of the standout highlights. Thanks for the interior shots!
Marvelous!!! Never saw a video of the Valkyrie like this! Congratulations!
Fabulous. What an outstanding aviation monument. This beauty deserves all the attention you can to be kept in great shape. Thanks a lot for this glimpse of the inside, rarely seen on picture. Regards from France.
I can’t imagine what the pilots checklist must look like. Must be the thickness of a Tom Clancy book!
My #1 plane. I have a piece of the second example hanging on the wall of my office. One of my most prized possessions.
Thanks for making this video. This is my absolute favorite aircraft!!
Never thought I would get to see the inside. Thank you and my goodness is that the definition of information overload!
This video is so neat! Thanks for filming and sharing it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
She is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever created. This video was very detailed, and very cool, it was nice to see so many good close up footage of the cockpit.
Thanks a lot for the time-promenade ! :)
I've been dreaming about that since my childhood days, since I got a model kit of a XB-70 in the seventies. Many thanks for sharing this awesome video. Greetings from Austria.
Greetings to you, thanks so much for viewing we hope you enjoyed the video!!!
I had never had a close up view of the interior of this aircraft. Thank you very much and I hope there is more to come. Coming the the museum in June. Haven't been there since the 1970's
Those old green LOX bottles. That brings back some memories. Used to service those on the EA-6B.
Fly by wire?
Nope. Fly by nuts and bolts.
Awesome machine. Thank you for sharing this treasure.
Thanks for sharing an awesome upload.
Thanks for viewing!!!
I’m gonna go out on a limb, but this looks like real handful to fly. The yokes look like they came off an exercise machine! Thanks for such a rare look into one of aviations milestones!
This is great! A great job on the video, very well done. Thanks!
You know you're getting old when the interior (switches, instruments, etc,) looks a lot like the airplanes you once flew!
What a piece of aviation history. Thanks for sharing.
This was just perfect!!! Thank you!
I visited your museum in 2015. It's wonderful to see the inside of this piece of aviation history. Thanks for giving us an inside tour!
SURREAL! More exclusive than the SR71. Thank you…
Thanks for the tour of her inside. That was probably the most sexy airplane ever built. It came out when I was 7 or 8 and I loved it so much that my dad built me a wood model of it. Complete with pieces of copper tube to replicate the 6 massive afterburning engines. I always did want to see the interior of this behemoth. Could you imagine it with state of the art digital controls and instruments and the technology we have now? I was just in tears when that one crashed.
Fantastic inner views that I have never witnessed . Thank you for that. Far ahead of her time . . .
Great video. I enjoyed the detailed, close shots.
Great and detailed video. Awesome
Magnificent incredible aircraft. Amazing video. Thanks for sharing it!
Always wondered about the interior of this gorgeous aircraft. Thanks for sharing this.
I am absolutely fascinated by all the flight controls knobs and buttons you can actually read the instrument panel very well done this is a very special treat to us aviation lovers WELL DONE.
Great video. Thank you.
Thank you for the video. I am glad we still have that treasure in our museum.
My heart starts to beat faster when I see this engineering masterpiece! Thanks for this video and greetings from Austria
Such a differnce between inner and outer looking!
Outer looks futuristic, while inner looks pre-historic!
We were stationed in Ft. Irwin and I was in Barstow the day the other ‘70 went down. My dad was I.G. and actually went to the crash site out in the desert. Super sad.
I've always wanted to know what the interior of the aircraft looked like, now I do. thank you for uploading
Aeronautical Engineering from the past reminds us of how far advanced our aeronautical and Aerospace craft are today. Excellent well done video
Awesome tour of an awesome bird.
Excelente video con lujo de detalle. Se observa con claridad lo artesanal en su concepción interna.
Este proyecto me cautivó desde mi infancia.
Un gran abrazo!
Wow…just wow! You made my day with this. Thanks. 🇺🇸
That was totally cool. I remember when i was a kid in the late 70's seeing this outside in front of the museum. Its good to see she finally got her inside. I saw a old black and white photo of the engine intakes, it looked like a large room with 6 first stage engine blades. I was hoping they were going to climb in and show us that!!!
Indeed! I saw it in the 80s as a kid and it was outside and very impressive.
Great music. The shockwave rider is sooo awesome.
The XB-70 is an amazing aircraft and piece of history - it's great that you folks have put the effort into restoring/preserving it. And the video is great too!
Outstanding look into an aircraft that was both ahead of it's time and part of a paradigm that no longer exists.
I was 13 when I saw this plane make it's last landing in 1969 at Right Patterson. My dad was a C-141A pilot from McChord transitioning to the AC-119 Gunship to spend his year in Vietnam.
This aircraft, outside the Main Museum at WPAFB, was the most memorable and awesome plane I remember from my very first visit museum in the 1970’s. To this day, it is one to see for sure.
Two things 1. The aircraft is absolutely enormous. Pictures don’t do it justice. 2. Seeing the cockpit really gives you the sense of continuity between different generations of North American designs.
This Video Is Something I Thought I'd Never See & How Lucky Someone Was To Be Able To See The Interior In Person! I'd Give Anything To Visit That Museum. Thank You.
What a piece of art! The pure proud of USA!
Has to watch again!
It's such a beautiful looking aircraft.
I saw this plane, once ,never thought I'd ever see the interior
That is one dead sexy aircraft. Glad work took me close enough to manage a visit. I would love to see and hear that fly past.
Cool thanks for sharing this with us.
Of course! Thanks so much for viewing our channel!!!
It would have been an awesome experience to see and hear one of these flying by! Awesome engineering and design from the 1950's
VERY VERY cool, like many have said, Great job!
Beautiful! Well done.
Thank you so much for this video. I have put hours of research into seeing photos of the interior of this aircraft!
A B36 interior tour from front to back would be amazing...
Well just 7 miles from me is Castle Air Museum (formally Castle AFB), Atwater California, and it so happens that there is a B36 on display, and on open cockpit day (coming up in the next couple of months) you can walk through most of the planes they have here. I'd be happy to show you the base, and might be able to wrangle a walk through.
@@billyjoe415 That would be amazing! I would like to keep in touch and would be interested if possible. Thank you.
@@billyjoe415 I was stationed at Castle AFB twice.. 71-72 and 74.. I'd like a tour of that as well.. Is the Blackbird open as well.. Do you know if they have a B-58 Hustler on display? That was another one of my favorites...
She's a beauty! Thanks for sharing, appreciate it a lot.
Greets from the Netherlands, T.
i am working in the Dayton area now and plan to head over to the museum shortly. I went there way back in 1982 when I was driving from Rhode Island to San Antonio Texas to go to Officer Training School!
A fantastic machine way ahead of it’s time. She looks in remarkably good shape both inside and outside.
I've been there a few times, looks so cool with the hangar doors open.
My wife and I just visited the museum a few weeks ago. An amazing place to see.....Proud to be a 31652F Titan Missile Electronics Tech from '79-'83
Отличное видео, спасибо!
She is so well-preserved. Looks almost is if you would just have to add fluids, change the batteries, and she'd be ready to fly...
Last time I saw this aircrafts interior was on the day it rolled out of its hangar for display to the workers and later the public. I was eight years old in Palmdale and my Father was one of those workers. Our Mother walked us up the extremely steep stairs while one of the pilots greeted us at the top! Thank God it’s inside now.
I remember when it used to sit outside. You could walk right up to it.
@@ericplaysbass Wow. Glad it’s covered now, it’s almost 60!
Arguably one of the best looking airplanes in the world. Certainly one of my top three favorite planes.
I love how the standard of the day was to use string to keep wiring looms neat I worked in telecoms in the late 70's and 80's and remember lacing looms with waxed string.
It’s still used to this day on certain wiring looms on gas turbine engines
It takes a certain talent to lace up wiring looms. My hat is off to these artists, not many are in existence today.
I’m an wiring assessor for the USN, USMC and some USAF aircraft. I ensure that all electrical wiring systems are installed properly and safely. If those conditions are met I sign the flight clearance approving it for flight. Love my job! With that said at time 4:04 my head exploded. There are so many examples of unsafe wiring in those few seconds of video that I hate to think what the aircraft looks like elsewhere. I am taking into account the age of the aircraft but even that far back standards were written for wiring installation. For examples I notice the stainless steel lines are chafing the wire bundles in the vertical position, wires are running outside clamps and sections are loose allowing chafing. All these examples contribute to an early failure of wiring systems.
Always amazed at how awesome these look from the outside, yet look like some kind of school project DIY effort on the inside.
This is what a proper flight deck looks like: real instruments, dials and needles; none of that glass cockpit rubbish you see nowadays
Wow, amazing! thanks for sharing this video!
Also interesting to see the 'ejection seats' were those 'capsules' instead of ordinary seats.
This airplane is a concentration of technology and beauty.
I've seen shots of the cockpit before, but never of what's to the right side of the entrance... the Big Mystery has finally been solved. Many thanks, now I can build my XB-70 in peace!
Thank you for this! I have a personal history with this aircraft dating back to my childhood at Edwards, but this is the first time I've seen anything inside but the instrument panel. Well done!
Thanks so very much!!!
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏼