NORTH AMERICAN XB-70A-1 VALKYRIE USAF EXPERIMENTAL MACH III BOMBER 1/72 SCALE
DESCRIPTION:
In the Cold War era the dream of every strategist was to own a bomber
with the load capacity and autonomy of the B-52 able to fly faster than
the B-58 and so the B-70 program came into being. After years on the
drawing board, and cutthroat competition between Boeing and North
American Aviation, the latter’s design won the heated competition in
December 1957, with an order for the first 30 aircraft to be in service
by 1965. In 1959, however, it became clear that the still untested B-70
would not survive the new aerial combat scene technology and the
program was cut back to a minimum. Two prototypes were finally
constructed, the first of which took to the air in September 1964, and
the XB-70 Valkyries showed themselves able to fly at speeds exceeding
Mach 3. Today they are considered by many scholars and airplane buffs to
be the most beautiful aircraft ever constructed.
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