North American XB-70 Valkyrie

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as XB-70A 62-0001, AV-1, the first of the two North American Valkyries, which first flew on 21 September 1964, reached Mach 3.02 in October 1965, flew research sorties for NASA and the US Air Force until February 1969 and is displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio: a six-engined Mach 3 strategic bomber prototype with a long slender forward fuselage, a movable windscreen ramp (shown lowered) over a two-seat cockpit, swept canard foreplanes with flaps, a thin, high-mounted delta wing with folding outer panels (shown level, as displayed), a huge box-shaped engine housing under the wing split by a vertical intake splitter, six General Electric YJ93 nozzles side by side in the tail, twin swept fins and a tall undercarriage with four-wheeled main bogies: gloss white overall with a black anti-glare panel on the nose, ‘U.S. AIR FORCE’ in dark blue and the star-and-bar on the forward fuselage, ‘20001’ on the fins and a star-and-bar under the starboard wing, as photographed at Dayton (no XB-70 is in a UK museum; shape from the USAF Standard Aircraft Characteristics three-view; the nose probe is included, and the small stencils and photo-calibration marks are left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 307 models · download .glb (968 KB) · Plate 255 in The Hangar