The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, often dubbed as a supersonic Cold War beast, emerged as a symbol of American aviation ...

What You Need to Know: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was an ambitious supersonic bomber designed to replace the B-52, capable of flying at Mach 3 and 70,000 feet. With six powerful engines and a ...

What You Need to Know: The XB-70 Valkyrie, a Cold War-era strategic bomber prototype designed to replace the B-52, is now on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Developed to fly at ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie was one of the most ambitious aircraft projects of the Cold War—a massive supersonic bomber designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 author fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, seeing iconic aircraft like the XB-70 Valkyrie. Dayton offers numerous ...

From the first of the 95 flights made by the Air Force’s two XB-70 Valkyrie bombers since 1964, the mighty, 2,000-m.p.h. experimental craft has been gremlin plagued. On Valkyrie 1’s maiden flight, a ...