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The x15 was a research airplane in the purest sense, whereas the xb70 was an experimental bomber intended for production but diverted to research when production was. The xb 70 then appears in the fsx aircraftselection menu. North american xb70 bob nasa fsx by massimo altieri, update. This is the nasa xb70 in san francisco with a view of the golden gate bridge.
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The monthlong hurricane and severe storm sentinel hs3 is currently deploying one instrumentladen global hawk. Douglas e trapp simulator engineer fsx military aircraft. The dual throttles and black box at the top of the instrument panel of an early version of the f15 cockpit before sim engineers obtained the mfds and hardware to drive them. Logic dictates that the real xb70 would have handled more like the. What i mean is, i downloaded a very nice freeware one, but it doesnt work as it should. I finally purchased pete dowsons fsuipc4 the other week, mainly because i finally decided i should fly the big iron with winds aloft and it must be said that so far the wind smoothing function works well. Groundtoair missiles and advanced radar made the xb70s supersonic mission impossible.
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