North American XB-70A Valkyrie
North American XB-70A Valkyrie (Warbird Tech 34) By Kev Darling
Publisher: Specialty Press 2002 | 104 Pages | ISBN: 1580070566 | PDF | 73 MB
Publisher: Specialty Press 2002 | 104 Pages | ISBN: 1580070566 | PDF | 73 MB
Then one thinks of Mach 3 aircraft, what generally w w comes to mind is the Lockheed SR-71 or perhaps the MiG 25. But there was another Mach 3 design, one that was a good deal larger and five times heavier than the Blackbird or the Foxbat. Perhaps even more futuristic looking, the North American Aviation XB-70A Valkyrie was the culmination of General Curtis LeMay's quest for the ultimate strategic bomber. The beginning of the XB-70A story is intertwined with the development of a nuclear-powered bomber - something that could only have been imagined during the 1950s -and a new Mach 3+ interceptor, the F-108 Rapier. All three of these programs were intended to share systems and components, largely as a cost-cutting measure, and the funding nightmare soon unraveled as first the nuclear-powered bomber, then the F-108, were cancelled.
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