Accession Number:

AD1168643

Title:

B-70 Test Report Flight 1-10 20 April 1965

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Other]

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE FLIGHT TEST CENTER, AFTC/HO

Personal Author(s):

• Cotton, Joseph
• Plummer, Ira
• Townsend, Guy

Report Date:

2022-04-26

Pagination or Media Count:

34

Abstract:

The tenth flight Flight 1-10 of XB-70, No. 62-001, with Mr. Al White, North American Aviation, Inc NM, Pilot and Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, Air Force Flight Test Center AFFTC, Copilot, was completed on 20 Apr 65. Takeoff from Edwards AFB runway04 at 1130 hours PST, and landing on Edwards runway 22 was at 1255 hours PST. The takeoff gross weight was 503,300 pounds. Total flight time was one hour and forty-two minutes. Total supersonic time was seventy-four minutes and total time at Mach 2.0 or greater was fifty minutes. Maximum speed and altitude were Mach 2.29 and 58,500 feet.

Descriptors:

• air force
• aircrafts
• vehicles
• altitude
• landing gear
• mach number
• united states
• california
• electric switches
• switches
• abstracts
• department of defense
• engineering
• instrumentation
• wing tips
• acoustics
• afterburners

Subject Categories:

• Military Aircraft Operations
• AERODYNAMICS

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]