XB-70 Valkyrie: The Supersonic Bomber That Almost ... With orders to go back to the drawing board, North American’s team turned to a recently published paper by Alfred J Eggers and Clarence ...

Some of these concepts even got off the drawing board ... a match” for matching the XB-70. Not only was the S-75 Dvina SAM system operational by the time the Valkyrie was ready to hit the ...

A drawing and an artist’s artwork of the ... As wrote by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, “The XB-70 Valkyrie seemed to be a perfect testbed for SST research. It was the same size ...

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was neither ... when bonkers design after bonkers design not only made it off the drawing board but to production. The delta wings, an excellent design for ...

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie emerged from a United States Air Force requirement in the mid-1950s for a bomber capable of delivering nuclear payloads at speeds and altitudes beyond the reach ...

The XB-70 Valkyrie could cruise at Mach 3, riding its own shock wave to do so, and could hit altitudes of 70,000 feet. But the XB-70 Valkyrie never went into full-scale production, and now there's ...

The experimental legacy of the iconic XB-70 Valkyrie, which made its first flight on Sept. 21, 1964. An article published on the U.S. Air Force website commemorates the 60th anniversary of the ...

The SR-71 Blackbird, B-1B bomber and other military aircraft can trace some aspects of their lineage to the XB-70 Valkyrie. Unfortunately, the XB-70 story doesn't have a happy ending. In 1966 ...

It was the XB-70 Valkyrie, an experimental plane developed for the US Air Force. Its inaugural flight — 60 years ago in September 1964 — kicked off a golden era for supersonic aircraft.

With orders to go back to the drawing board, North American’s ... Despite its futuristic aesthetic, this new XB-70 Valkyrie wasn’t too far off in dimensions from the B-52 it intended to ...