Italeri 1282 - 1/72 XB-70 Valkyrie  [IT-1282S]

Period: from '50 to '90

Country: United States

Model Dim.: 79 cm

XB-70 VALKIRYE

Within the Cold War era the imagine every strategist was to acquire a bomber with force ability and autonomy of the B-52 capable travel quicker compared to the B-58 thin B-70 programme came into being. After years on drawing board, and cutthroat competition between Boeing and North American Aviation, the latter’s design won the heated competition in December 1957, with a purchase for the very first 30 aircraft to be in service by 1965. In 1959, however, it became clear that the nevertheless untested B-70 would not survive the latest aerial combat scene technology as well as the programme ended up being reduce to the absolute minimum. Two prototypes were finally constructed, the very first that took toward atmosphere in September 1964, plus the XB-70 Valkyries showed on their own capable travel at speeds exceeding Mach 3. Today they have been considered by many scholars and airplane buffs become the most wonderful aircraft ever built.