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From: amdcad!raymond@io.ame.arizona.edu (Raymond Man)
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Subject: XB-70
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Date: 3 Oct 89 13:05:33 GMT
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From: amdcad!raymond@io.ame.arizona.edu (Raymond Man)

	In <27444@amdcad.AMD.COM> David L Jacobowitz wrote
>....It was one of the first airplanes to have canards.

	The Wright Flyer was a canard. The XB-70 is actually
more significant in being the first (and only?) wave rdier
(so called compression lift from boxing in the shock waves
with the fold down tips.)

	I believe I have read that the were performance
problems because it was first designed with a special
fuel which has a much high calorific value (like 3 times normal)
but the program for the fuel was cancelled because of technical
problem.




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raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu