Hello everyone, welcome back to the Flight Test podcast. My name is James Wormsley. This is the podcast where we talk to people from around the world of aviation about topics that entertain, educate and elevate. This week I'm joined by a prevalent member of the FT community to talk about his gigantic XB70 Valkyry projects.

It is, of course, Ben Harbour.

For those who don't know about the Valkyry, you should probably check out the article

which goes along with this podcast, just so you know the sort of what we're talking about,

really, and what the plane

looks like. So, yeah, a bit of background. The XP70 was a nuclear bomber prototype,

built by the US Air Force. First flew in 1964, but it was cancelled, and I think they're only

two made. But yeah, Ben's been building one of these

well he had built one of these last year and yeah we're going to be talking about this

huge model aeroplane project I think the I think it was like eight feet long he said

something like that anyway yes we're going to talk about all of this, uh, in just a moment.

First though, before we jump into the conversation, we should probably mention that this

episode of the flight test podcast has been sponsored by Skillshare.

Uh, Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn about anything from physics

to, you know, aircraft design.

I'm sure there's loads of stuff like that on there.

Within the site, you'll find over 25,000 different online courses.

And so, yeah, you should check it out.

It's, there's a link in the description of this podcast or in the show notes, whatever they're called,

www.w.w.com forward slash Skillshare.

Oh yes.

And also, we should probably mention that there's a new flight test kit out.

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