North American XB-70 Valkyrie USAF Supersonic NASA SAC Experimental Bomber Patch for Sale

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North American XB-70 Valkyrie USAF Supersonic NASA SAC Experimental Bomber Patch For Sale

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North American XB-70 Valkyrie USAF Supersonic NASA SAC Experimental Bomber Patch:
$6.99

Rare, high quality XB-70 Valkyrie patch.Four inches across.

This is an EXACT copy of an extremely rare XB-70 Valkyrie patch and in fact, is the only one I have ever seen. An original would certainly cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, if you could even find one.

TheNorth American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrieis the prototype of theB-70nuclear-armed, deep-penetration strategic bomberfor the U.S. Air Force\'sStrategic Air Command. North American Aviationdesigned the Valkyrie bomber as a large, six-engined aircraft capable of reaching Mach3+ while flying at 70,000 feet (21,000m).

At these speeds, it was expected that the B-70 would be almost immune to interceptor aircraft,the only effective weapon against bomber aircraft at the time. The bomber would spend only a few minutes over a particular radarstation, flying out of its range before the controllers could position their fightersin a suitable location for an interception. Its high speed also made the aircraft difficult to see on the radar displays, and its high altitude flight could not be matched by any contemporary Sovietfighter.

The introduction of the first Soviet surface-to-air missilesin the late 1950s put the near-invulnerability of the B-70 in doubt. In response, the US Air Force began flying its missions at low level, where the missile radar\'s line of sightwas limited by local terrain. In this low-level penetrationrole, the B-70 offered little additional performance over theB-52it was meant to replace. It was, however, far more expensive and had shorter range. Other alternate missions were proposed, but these were of limited scope. As the strategic role passed from bombers to intercontinental ballistic missiles(ICBMs) during the late 1950s, manned bombers were increasingly seen as an anachronism.

The USAF eventually gave up fighting for its production, and the B-70 program was canceled in 1961. Development was then turned over to a research program to study the effects of long-duration high-speed flight. As such, two prototype aircraft were built, and designatedXB-70A; these aircraft were used for supersonic test-flights during 1964–69. In 1966, one prototype crashed after colliding in mid-air with a smaller jet aircraft; the remaining Valkyrie bomber is in the newest indoor hangar at theNational Museum of the United States Air Forcenear Dayton, Ohio. (Wikipedia)

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