Wow thanks, for sure I’ll need pictures of some details.
Also for sure, If I will ever earn something from this plane, no doubt I’ll spend that for a pilgrinage to THIS museum!!! 
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Thank you very much, I will reward the followers of this page by offering them to beta-test the XB70 as soon as it will be reasonably stable and complete!
I can assure you that flying this bird is something thrilling as nothing else out there!
Too bad they used the second protoype for a trivial thing like a photoshoot… otherwise the N2 will still be available today, and who knows how the story would have been!
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Wow Valkyrie! Looks really nice, will it come to the marketplace?
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Been there twice now, 2015 and 2019 (i’m from Europe) and it just doesn’t seize to amaze me, especially the enormity of the museum itself.
Keep up the good work!
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I live 45 min from the USAF museum in Dayton Ohio. I’m happy to go get more pics if needed. I was just there a few weeks ago!
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Are visitors allowed to get inside the plane or the images I see on the net are from the museum photographers only ? I can’t see “plexiglass protections” or things like that, so I really don’t think that people are permitted to enter the cockpit, it would be damaged.
I will start collecting notes about the exterior details that I need, so when it will be possible to reach the museum there will be a precise list of things to shoot.
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When I have visited, there is no access allowed inside the plane to the public.
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I am beyond excited for this.
Given your experience with the animation for the capsule ejection system… any thought of following the XB-70 up with the B-58?
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When I was there a few weeks ago there was no access to the Valkyrie cockpit 
being from the UK i have been fortunate enough to see the XB70 at dayton and the B58 at Pima in the metal. two amazing aircraft, would love both in this sim
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Yes, I made a model of the B58 as well, it was my very first model for FS9 (or earlier… ?). I remeber that it had something like 200.000 downloads… it was free of course, but if I had asked, let say, 1 $ per download… well, but it doesn’t work this way.
Anyway I had a great joy when I saw that so many people downloaded and used my first plane. Then I made a much more detailed version, wich I will convert for MSFS 2020 in the future (but not in the near future, until I finish the XB-70. Here some images of the last version of my B58 (never published because FSX was stopped and I migrated to XPlanes for many years).
… but don’t tell anyone!
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I forgot to mention that Marco is an aeronautical engineer in real life!!! That helps fixing things on airplane models too
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Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart’s favorite plane…
I forget what Marion Wayne was doing back then, but Mr. Stewart flew B-24’s during the war and stayed active in the USAF for many years afterward.
Beautiful and capable airplane from Convair
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I’m tight on time right know but would love to try it. You are achieving something very unique from an historical point of view.
Don’t expect to have perfect flight model, as this is probably not well suited within the aerodynamics provided by the game. Take into account that you are in very high supersonic flight and at altitudes where complex chemical reactions happen that are not modeled but impact directly inthe flight characteristics.
Anyway I would add it to my hangar and sure some more people too. Keep the good work.
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New week and new month, how are things going in our favorite supersonic plane?
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At the end of the day all this “amazing planes” where made to kill and destroy effectively.
Yes this is the sad part of the story. Let say that the most powerful new weapons prevented each country to effectively attack the other, since the consequences would have been catastrophic for both.
But whatever the original reason for developing such wheapons was, those engineering masterpiece allowed a big advancement in knowledge. After the XB70 “bomber” program was dismissed, the plane was converted into a research aircraft for NASA, and was used for many studies and tests (unfortunately it was the N1 prototype ans not the much more advanced N2).
Nuclear energy should be used only for pacific energy production, but in all human history, only if you had a strong army you could avoid - or reduce the risk - to be attacked by other countries.
If someone will ever decide to effectively use the nuclear weapons, no more planes will fly for a lot of time on the earth…
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With the help of the aeronautic engineer the flight model is progressing impressively. This allows me to spend more time in the development of the main instrument panel and texturing. Currently I am dealing with html gauges, and also with sounds.
Many things are working now, but a lot of them are still based on “legacy” coding, and this cannot be left in the real (beta or pre-beta) release, with the risk of having all messed up after a simulator update. Unfortunately new procedures and coding requires much more time and learning than the older one.
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Indeed. I’ve been to Dayton twice, and the XB-70 is amazing to witness in person.
It’s been 30 years, and I want to go back. I also want to fly this in the sim.
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I have about 3600 pictures from the last few trips (3 years) that I have taken. I never get sick of the place.
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