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The XB-70 Valkyrie on display at the Air Force Museum was once again towed out of its display hangar temporarily for museum maintenance recently.
When: East Drumore supervisors meeting, Dec. 7.
The first XB-70A – which is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force – first flew in from Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, to Edwards Air Force Base in September 1964, with Chief Test Pilot Alvin S. White and Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, U.S. Air Force, at the controls.
The XB-70 was built for a war with Russia. The plane, however, had too many problems ever to join the U.S. Air Force.
As envisioned, the six-engined XB-70 Valkyrie was capable of cruising for thousands of miles at Mach 3+ while flying at 70,000 feet (21,000 m) – which was meant to make it practically immune to interceptor aircraft.