XB-70 "Valkyrie Bomber" Pictures...

Look at it, delta wings and what is commonly accepted as what a modern hypersonic looks like. Yes the Valkeryie was cancelled but the technical side of the program never stopped. From artists renderings the Aurora is the modern version of the XB70. It makes sense. Perfect sense. I strongly believe that the Aurora is actually a Northrop Grumman project not Lockheed. The B-2 was thought to be a lockheed project for most of the time it was in development. Most thought only Lockheed could come up with such awesome tech. Its maddeninig that after a full decade and more of Auroras theorised existence that it hasnt been publicly unveiled. The B-2 is so advanced nobody will have any real defence against it for another 20-30 years. We unveiled that in the late eighties.

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Every description of a real possible Aurora sighting describes something like an XB70. It makes no sense whatsoever to cancel such an awesome weapon just because another plane flew into it. No way. Just looking at the old XB pix gives me chills. How flat out awesome of a machine. Unstoppable at speed. The XB may also have been the first succesfull shot at replacing the SR71. Makes no sense at all to mothball em. They are probably still greased up and ready to go.

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For you doubters. Take every credible Aurora sighting and compare the physical characteristics to the XB. The similarities are chilling. The Aurora is just the modern hypersonic XB. I do not doubt speed above mach 10 at all.

Alot of people always ask the question, "What would you be if you could be anything?" and I always answer, the guy who knows everything about every black project and is in charge of them. This desire to know the classified aircraft tech has been infused in my bones forever. I search these threads and the web almost everyday for something new. They need to release a new fighter or aurora or something, it killing me!!!!!!!

You just have a feeling that the valkyrie used its tech on something else, you just know it.

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Originally posted by SonofSpy
I strongly believe that the Aurora is actually a Northrop Grumman project not Lockheed. The B-2 was thought to be a lockheed project for most of the time it was in development.

The way it went down is BOTH competed for the ATB contract. Northrope won for many reasons, the two main ones as I understand them were that it incorporated technologies that the L/M one did not and L/M had already won the F-117 contract. The rumor I have heard is that the high voltage drag reduction/stealth inhancement of the Northrop design pushed it over the top.

Every description of a real possible Aurora sighting describes something like an XB70.

Ehhh? From what I have heard they have a lot of differences. For example the Aurora would likely use a blended wing/body. The Aurora would NOT have forward canards, and would almost certainly not have folding wings.

The Aurora is just the modern hypersonic XB. I do not doubt speed above mach 10 at all.

I must say I agree with you on this. To me it makes no sense to design an aircraft like the Aurora without building it to have a weapons payload because the USAF wants the ability to hit targets quickly.

FWIW, the remaining XB-70 is in the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, near Dayton, OH.

It's a work of art.

Well, I don't know if the technology from the XB-70 is being used in the Aurora, but from my knowledge of the sightings, the two planes are completely different. Many observers have reported the Aurora is essentially a black triangle, with 2 distinctive, "bulbus" air intake vents on the sides. Anything resembling the XB-70 would much easier to recognise, as its features are more visible, the Concorde Nose, the air intakes on the fuselage, the stabilising fins, and the flat triangular rear exhaust.

All I'm saying is that I highly doubt the XB-70 has now been converted into the Aurora aircraft, while they may have borrowed technology, I doubt the XB-70 design is still used.

Compare these photos/graphics of the Aurora and XB-70:

Alleged Aurora Sighting:



Common Aurora Concept Drawing:



Now compare the Valkyrie:



Similar yet different...

Originally posted by JimmyCarterIsSmarter
yeah i think it got cancelled because during a photo shoot, a
f-104 starfighter collided with the xb-70 and causeing it to crash

Yes, If you look at the pic where the Valkyrie is in formation with the other foighters, F-4 etc. This was taken minutes before the death od a beautiful aircraft. Very very sad indeed, from a pilots perspective the Valkyrie was a dream boat. Oh well! Parts of her live on in the B-1.