![]() ![]() Although never put into full production, this giant six-engined aircraft became famous for its breakthrough technology, and the spectacular images captured on a fatal air-to-air photo shoot when an observing Starfighter collided with Valkyrie A/V-2 which crashed into the Mojave Desert. ![]() It is full of unpublished details, photographs and firsthand accounts from those closely associated with the project. ![]() This book is the most detailed description of the design, engineering and research that went into this astounding aircraft. In September 1964 the first Valkyrie, now re-coded A/V-1, took to the air for the first time and in October went supersonic. Nevertheless, in 1963 plans for the production of three high-speed research aircraft were approved and construction proceeded. ![]() However, in April 1961, Defense Secretary McNamara stopped the production go-ahead for the B-70 because of rapid cost escalation and the USSR's newfound ability to destroy aircraft at extremely high altitude using either missiles or the new Mig-25 fighter. The concept was born as a result of General Curtis LeMay's desire for a heavy bomber with the weapon load and range of the subsonic B-52 and a top speed in excess of the supersonic medium bomber, the B-58 Hustler. new information, photographs and first-hand accounts." -FlypastÄuring the 1950s, plans were being drawn at North American Aviation in Southern California for an incredible Mach-3 strategic bomber. "A fascinating insight into one of the Cold War's most interesting concept aircraft. ![]()
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