-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 ...

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

Despite its technical triumphs and support from aviators, the XB-70’s operational future unraveled almost as quickly as it took flight. What You Need to Know: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...