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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Cold War era from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the skies above Southern California’s Mojave Desert served as a testbed for the newest, biggest, fastest and deadliest military aircraft ...

Let's take a look at what was to be the ultimate high speed, high altitude and last manned strategic bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie. An aircraft which still looks futuristic even today, the Valkyrie was a ...

-Engineered to "ride" its own shockwave for fuel efficiency, the massive bomber was a technological masterpiece. However, its development coincided with the dawn of the "missile age." -The rise of ...

The 1950s was a unique period for U.S. strategic defense. It was, of course, a post-nuclear world, one in which nuclear weapons had proliferated on multiple continents. But it was also a time that ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie is the world’s most sophisticated manned aircraft —and one of the fastest and heaviest. Sometimes known as “Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent” because of early technical problems and ...