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

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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Through the 1950s, Soviet air defenses pivoted from interceptor fighters to missiles—and, particularly after the Soviets’ successful downing of a U-2 spy plane on May ...

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 ...

As the fifth historical aircraft to be featured, the XB-70 Valkyrie will be in the Air Force Marathon History and Heritage race series, beginning Sept. 1. The XB-70 Valkyrie was a prototype of the ...

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 aircraft in this photo collided with a civilian registered F-104N flown by famous test pilot Joe Walker, who tragically died in the accident during a photo flight. Although it made its last flight ...

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 ...