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

Period: from '50 to '90

Country: Usa

Model Dim.: 79 cm

XB-70 VALKIRYE

Within the Cold War period the dream of every strategist was to have a bomber with the strain ability and autonomy regarding 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 North American Aviation, the latter’s design won the heated competition in December 1957, with a purchase for the first 30 aircraft to be in solution by 1965. In 1959, but became clear that the nevertheless untested B-70 will never survive the new aerial combat scene technology while the programme had been scale back to the absolute minimum. Two prototypes had been finally constructed, the very first that took to your atmosphere in September 1964, together with XB-70 Valkyries revealed themselves in a position to fly at rates exceeding Mach 3. Today they are considered by numerous scholars and airplane buffs become the most amazing aircraft ever constructed.