Message posted by Aaron Johnson on July 14, 2004 at 0:16:17 PST:
According to the wings program on Discovery, It was the slow and gradual drift of the F-104 near wing of the XB-70, then unfortunately what is known as bernoulli's principle kicked in. It is commonly known too all pilots but for the non-pilot, not familiar with bernoulli's principle and how it apllies to a wing of an aircraft I will explain in simpilistic terms. As air flows over the curved upper portion of a wing of any aircraft. a low pressure is created or generated and of course the faster the aircraft flies the greater this low pressure becomes and is called, "lift". Basically a vacuum is created above the wing but! do too the upper curved surface of a wing. As Joe Walker's F-104 drifted closer and closer to the right wing of the XB-70 and after numerous reviews of the video footage as described in the Wings program, Joe Walker's F-104 suddenly rolled to the left, with well over, 120 degrees of bank, to the left and was literally sucked into, the right wing of the XB-70. AD INEXPLORATA
Aaron J.
In Reply to: OT: The XB-70 Valkyrie and her offspring posted by Peter Merlin on July 12, 2004 at 21:10:35 PST:
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