MACH 3 XB70 Valkyrie (2005)

Born of the cold war and eclipsed by success in rocketry the XB70 Valkyrie was conceived as a Mach 3 highaltitude bomber and became a valuable highspeed research aircraft Although only two were produced and one was destroyed in an accident the Valkyrie built an impressive databank of highspeed flight invaluable to aviation development This DVD with nearly 4 hours of rare footage of the XB70 newly transferred on modern telecines brings you the flight test program of the XB70 as never before Contains rare progress reports footage from rollout extensive footage of test flights and footage from the AV2 accident All footage is color Some footage is silent