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Video: Wow - An XB-70 Valkyrie Flying - In April 2011!
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 10:20PM 
Ok fine, it's not a real XB-70, but man this 1/62 scale, electric powered, and very lightweight Valkyrie is an awesome sight in the air. There's a bunch of cool people in Texas flying all kinds of really lightweight RC models indoors. It's some of the neatest RC flying I've ever seen. This video is from the 2011 SPEF indoor RC event.
There's such a grace and beauty to these very low-wing-loading airplanes being flown away from the typically turbulent outside air. I just love this stuff! If you like this video, be sure to check out some of the others I've posted recently:
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That's a nice XB-70 but I had one about that same size, made of balsa wood and powered by a pusher Cox TD .051 glow motor. It even had landing gear. I had to hand launch it also. It could do amazing rolls! Probably about a dozen per second due to the large ailerons. It was based on a FREEFLIGHT kit that was available in the early '70's.