A Total Failure: The XB-70 Valkyrie was an experimental U.S. nuclear bomber developed in the 1950s and 1960s as a potential replacement for the B-52. Designed to fly at Mach 3 speeds and altitudes ...

Exemplifying the period was the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, a supersonic bomber with impressive specifications and a cult-like place in the annals of aviation history. Designed in the early ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Only two of the enormous XB-70 bombers were ever built; one resides in a museum in Ohio, the other was destroyed in a collision in ...

With its six inline turbojet engines with afterburners, the Valkyrie could sustain speeds ... in up to 65 degrees to use shockwaves from the bomber's speed to provide additional lift.

The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was one of the first supersonic bombers to be built after the Second World War. Designed and constructed in the mid-1950s ...