While the missilemen get the headlines, hypnotize the comic books and plan the nation's pushbutton defenses, a sizable band of Air Force planners are quietly at work developing that oldfashioned, tried and true device, the manned airplane. By their reckoning, the nation will need the manned bomber through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Their promising candidate to succeed today's B-52 bombers: the B70 Valkyrie, an airplane that makes Buck Rogers' spaceship look like a model T.
The Valkyrie is revolutionary, from its stainless steel skin (withstanding 600° temperatures) to its...
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