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 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 Cold War was a wild era in the development of military technology, especially in the field of aerospace. From nuclear-powered strategic bombers concepts to Manned Orbital Laboratories (MOL) that ...

Though it looks like a cartoon and was obsolete before its first flight, this Cold War bomber is one of the fastest aircraft ever built. Here's a closer look. At Mach 3, you travel about 3,000 feet ...

The massive XB-70 Valkyrie is the largest and heaviest airplane ever to fly at Mach 3. The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the most ambitious super-bomber project of the Cold War. The massive ...

During the 1950s, as the Cold War loomed large, both the United States and the Soviet Union made plans to deliver nuclear warheads toward opposing cities. At the same time, work began on their ...

Key Points and Summary - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie embodied a once-dominant creed: outrun defenses at Mach 3 and 70,000 feet. -The prototype proved the physics—compression-lift wingtips, ...

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. The massive, white jet emerged under gray skies ...

In the late 1950s, the U.S. spent $800 million building a Mach 3.1 strategic bomber that could cruise above 70,000 feet and outrun every Soviet interceptor. The North American XB-70 Valkyrie used six ...

Donald L. Mallick flew an XB-70 as a NASA test pilot after the crash and piloted a TB-58 chase plane next to the surviving jet on its last flight from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to the museum in ...