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

Period: from '50 to '90

Country: United States Of America

Model Dim.: 79 cm

XB-70 VALKIRYE

In the Cold War period the desire every strategist was to have a bomber aided by the stress ability and autonomy about the B-52 capable travel faster versus B-58 thin B-70 programme happened. After years in the drawing board, and cutthroat competition between Boeing and us Aviation, the latter’s design won the hot competition in December 1957, with a purchase for the very first 30 aircraft to stay solution by 1965. In 1959, but became clear your nonetheless untested B-70 won't survive the newest aerial combat scene technology although the programme had been cut back towards absolute minimum. Two prototypes had been finally constructed, the 1st that took towards atmosphere in September 1964, and XB-70 Valkyries revealed on their own in a position to fly at rates exceeding Mach 3. Today they are considered by numerous scholars and airplane buffs get to be the most amazing aircraft ever constructed.