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The XB-70 Valkyrie lifts off from Palmdale on its first flight, the fastest bomber ever built.
Alvin White and Joseph Cotton fly the six-engine prototype to Edwards Air Force Base on its maiden flight.
By 1964, the Air Force had cancelled the bomber's production program, even as it prepared to fly. On September 21, North American test pilot Alvin S. White and Air Force Colonel Joseph F. Cotton took the XB-70 Valkyrie off the runway at Palmdale, California, and flew it to Edwards Air Force Base. The aircraft, designed for Mach 3 flight at 70,000 feet, was the fastest bomber in the world the moment its wheels left the ground. Remove or merge with the opening sentence about cancellation…
