[Leica] IMG: XB-70 Valkyrie

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

At 03:48 PM 8/12/2007, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
 >any prepubescent who ever pored over the september 1965 national
 >geographic "Air Force: Power For Peace" issue will know how these
 >fabulous and often impractical machines were nevertheless
 >able to capture our young imaginations.

I remember that issue quite well and there was 
noting impractical about the XB-70 project.  It 
was killed only because of "Liein' Lydon's" 
concentration on guns and butter during his 
fixation on the Viet-Nam War.  (Douglas MacArthur 
spent his later years trying to convince the US 
government to avoid a land war in Asia, a policy 
he had first advocated in 1943.)

I have seen the aircraft.  It is 
magnificent.  Somewhere, I have some shots I took 
of it a decade back with my M6.  If I come across 
them, I shall post them, though this is 
unlikely:  I have box and box after box of 
negatives and little time to go through them all.

Marc


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