Omg... where's this museum?

This is the Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton Ohio.
There are four huge hangars: Early Flight, World War I & II, Cold War, and the final houses X-planes and the Presidential gallery.
Admission is free.

that plane has a very interesting shape to it.. for a second it looked like it was missing it's right wing (size of the wing looks tiny, compared to the fuselage.

nice picture though.

I think you're being fooled by the canard (the tiny wing near the nose) and the slight distortion caused by the wide-angle lens. The wing itself is a rather large delta. That silver aircraft at the extreme left of the photo is sitting under the Valkyrie wing. You can see it better in the Wikipedia article. Follow the link in the description.

i noticed the delta wing, what threw me off was that the front part of the fuselage is positioned higher than the wing with the slope up to it, and the nose of the plane kinda sticks out further than most delta winged planes iv seen.

I see what you mean. I almost forgot, if you go back to my panorama of the gallery here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20867708/ you can see the entire plane better and from above. It's at the far right side, so you'll probably have to scroll the image to get there.

the proportions seem better in that picture though the design of that plane is still pretty interesting.

though it's not as interesting as some of the other aircraft in there, im surprised that the engineers even considered the design of some of those things (though they likely did all the math behind it and knew it would likely work) (mostly referring to the ones under the Valkyrie's intake)

pretty sad that i haven't seen many modern/current experimental aircraft. most interesting aircraft iv seen recently would likely be the F-35, and osprey. though i am liking the looks of SpaceX's, and Blue Origin's self landing rockets (i miss all the space plane research though)

Oh, the lifting bodies! I have been fascinated with those since I was a young model rocketeer, purchased a Centuri X-24 Bug kit and read the accompanying technical paper that explained how they work.

oh that's how those things flew lol.

pretty much completely forgot the aircraft that use the body for lift (my brother told me about them a few years ago, guess i forgot about them). really love the look of those things, would be amazing to see more of them (they really remind me of all the Sci-fi concept space craft)

just checked the wiki article, and found of that the dream chaser is still in development. i though we have mostly given up space plane like things. glad to hear they are still testing it (would be nice if they could get a little extra funding though)

Indeed. It must have been so awesome to witness in flight.

1964... imagine that! and never more than 2 of them - such a pity...

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Agreed, it is a pity. A bird this beautiful should fly. But their intended mission was better suited by the ICBMs that had been developed around the same time.

That sounds similar to the history of a cancelled British strike plane, the TSR 2. An even greater pity when you think of the research potential these planes might have had.

Interestingly, the B-70 bomber program was canceled in 1961, before the first Valkyrie ever flew. It's entire operational life (1964-1969) was spent as a research aircraft.

I think I heard of that place on Youtube about planes that never flew.

Although this one never went into production to carry out the mission it was designed for, she certainly flew.