The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was America’s and the USAF’s very first supersonic March 3 heavy bomber. In this show we present two historic USAF publicity films from 1964 the production and rollout and first test flights of this amazing aircraft, which was so far ahead of its time.
The first film presents the factory rollout of aircraft number one on May 11, 1964, and we are presented with the magnificent appearance of this sleep, giant supersonic bomber. She weighed 542,000 pounds and was 189 feet from nose to tail with a 105 foot wingspan, towering 30 feet above the ground at the top of her rear vertical fins.