Life w the B-1...

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I'll post a few from my time in the Navy....

Refueling the B-1's out of DG heading back to DG after being "in country". This is 16 hours into a 20 hr mission. These were shot over the Arabian Sea.

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Formed up for photos

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Back at DG...

You may have heard about this little incident....
Here's a link w more pics... http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

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This was shot with her almost fixed, and airworthy. The ground checks were almost completed. The Det had long since left, so 4 lucky guys got to come back to DG to test her, and fly her. I have pics of the first flight somewhere.... See if I can't dig them up.
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Awesome pictures! Thanks for sharing.

Saw a B-1 this weekend at the Mcguire air show, it was impressive. It was gloriously loud and seeing 4 engines in afterburner was awesome.
 
Matt13C said:
Awesome pictures! Thanks for sharing.

Saw a B-1 this weekend at the Mcguire air show, it was impressive. It was gloriously loud and seeing 4 engines in afterburner was awesome.
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Seeing those 4 burners in full effect surrounded by a tropical moon, and a tropical night is a sight you would NEVER forget.... I tried so many times to shoot it, but it just looks like 4 oranges surrounded by black.
 
Canassis said:
Seeing those 4 burners in full effect surrounded by a tropical moon, and a tropical night is a sight you would NEVER forget.... I tried so many times to shoot it, but it just looks like 4 oranges surrounded by black.
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That would be hard to forget, yeah. Sounds beautiful.
 
Murdoughnut said:
My friend who worked on the Bone's electrical system would be surprised to know they can fly 20-hours without breaking.
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I would frequently go to work, depart a flight, work 8 hours, go play/sleep, and return to land the flight I departed on the previous shift. I would ask, "Is this THE SAME (C/S) that departed yesterday?" I stopped asking after a couple of times.

We didn't hear the part about what was broken when they came back. But those maintainers did a great job of keeping the Det flying.
 
Those are awesome pictures of an awesome plane.

There's a video out there where the bone takes off out of the factory. The sound of the afterburners sets off multiple car alarms on the way out.
 
Matt13C said:
Awesome pictures! Thanks for sharing.

Saw a B-1 this weekend at the Mcguire air show, it was impressive. It was gloriously loud and seeing 4 engines in afterburner was awesome.
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They flew one into the MQY airshow last weekend! SWEET airplane, especially on a low pass in afterburner
 
funny seeing these pics, at my job (UH-60 RESET Mechanic) they just posted a picture of this bird with I assume the pilots standing in front of it gear up.
 
I just watched a "Great Planes" episode on the SR-71, and the host said at the end that it is regarded as possibly the best airplane ever built. It is just a beautiful airplane.

These pictures convinced me the B-1 is not too far behind; what a great looking bird!
 
Murdoughnut said:
My friend who worked on the Bone's electrical system would be surprised to know they can fly 20-hours without breaking.
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Guys I fly with who used to be BONE drivers say things like, "the ECS system is so complicated that even the engineers can't explain it."
 
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