Designed to fly above 70,000 feet at three times the speed of sound, the XB-70 Valkyrie was meant to be the ultimate strategic bomber. Despite groundbreaking materials, aerodynamics, and proposed ...

At the height of the Cold War, the United States came up with the ultimate strategic bomber. This was the North American XB-70 Valkyrie. The XB-70 was a Mach 3 prototype that would have led to the ...

XB-70 It Flew Fast But Could Not Run Advances in Anti-Aircraft Systems: Even as the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress entered service in the mid-1950s – replacing the Curtis B-36 Peacekeeper – the United ...

Summary: The XB-70 was designed to be larger and faster than the B-52. It was 196 feet long, 31 feet tall at the tail, with a 105-foot wingspan, and powered by six turbojet engines. -It could reach ...

The experimental legacy of the iconic XB-70 Valkyrie, which made its first flight on Sept. 21, 1964. An article published on the U.S. Air Force website commemorates the 60th anniversary of the first ...

Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane. It was the XB-70 Valkyrie, an ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie on display at the Air Force Museum was once again towed out of its display hangar temporarily for museum maintenance recently. The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, on display along ...