As part of a plan to build a strategic bomber for deep penetration and nuclear bombing runs during the Cold War, North ...

The only remaining XB-70 Valkyrie superbomber is on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The Cold War-era prototype variant of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed strategic ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie was a massive undertaking on the part of North American Aviation, which pitched the plane to the U.S. Air Force as a successor to the legendary B-52 bomber. At the time that the ...

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 ...

As the fifth historical aircraft to be featured, the XB-70 Valkyrie will be in the Air Force Marathon History and Heritage race series, beginning Sept. 1. The XB-70 Valkyrie was a prototype of the ...

The Second World War and the global rivalries that followed were events that fueled weapons development like nothing before. In the span of just a few short years, humanity stepped into the jet age, ...

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 ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- The XB-70 Valkyrie streaked through the skies near three times the speed of sound in flight tests 70,000 feet above the California desert in the 1960s. Tuesday, the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - North American XB-70 Valkyrie A technological tour de force of epic proportions, the legend of the XB-70 ...