The maiden flight of the XB-70A ended with tire blowout and fire. With a planned cruise speed of Mach 3 and operational altitude of 70,000 feet, the B-70 Valkyrie was slated to be the ultimate ...

The futuristic XB-70A was originally conceived in the 1950s as a high-altitude, nuclear strike bomber that could fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) – any potential enemy would have been ...

As a result, in 1961, the expensive B-70 bomber program was canceled before any Valkyries had been completed or flown. Even so, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) bought two XB-70As which were used for flight ...

Take a look at these detailed photographs of the XB-70 Valkyrie’s interior. The iconic North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the most ambitious super-bomber project of the Cold War. The massive six-engine ...

The Air Force officers who christened their controversial new research plane the Valkyrie were probably confused. Valkyries were the screaming maidens of Nordic mythology who selected the warriors who ...

The Valkyrie was a plane decades ahead of its time, pushing the aeronautical engineering of the early 1960s well beyond what had been thought possible. It was even slated to become the world's first ...

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The world's only remaining North American XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber recently moved into the newly built fourth hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. During the ...

Key Points: The XB-70 Valkyrie, a Mach 3-capable bomber developed during the Cold War, was designed to outpace Soviet air defenses. Powered by six turbojet engines, it could reach 2,076 mph at 73,000 ...