Despite its technical triumphs and support from aviators, the XB-70’s operational future unraveled almost as quickly as it took flight. The North American XB-70 Valkyrie emerged from a United States ...

North American seriously studied converting the XB-70 Valkyrie into a Mach 3 passenger aircraft years before Concorde entered ...

The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, often dubbed as a supersonic Cold War beast, emerged as a symbol of American aviation prowess during the Cold War. This prototype bomber aircraft commanded attention ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

The North American XB-70 Vakyrie was rolled into the new fourth building of the National Museum of the United States Air Force on Tuesday, October 27. The big Mach 3 bomber was put in a new hangar the ...

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 ...