XB-70 Valkyrie (1/72nd Scale) Plastic Military Model KitDetails: In the Cold War era the dream of every strategist was to own a bomber with the load capacity and autonomy of the B 52 able to fly faster than the B 58 and so the B 70 programme came into being. After years on the drawing board, and cutthroat competition between Boeing and North American Aviation, the latters design won the heated competition in December 1957, with an order for the first 30 aircraft to be in service by 1965. In 1959, however,