Sunday, March 26, 2023

B-1B Lancer -- The Bone

 


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  1. Right down the road from Deadwood…

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  2. Falling apart, but still flying.

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  3. I was going through the interview process for an officer flight position when the B1-Bs were pulled from the Air Guard Wing at Robbins AFB. I had a single engine pilots license from when I was a teenager so I figured I had an edge at flight school. The replacement J-Stars were fewer aircraft which meant fewer flight positions. I retired as a Master Sargent and spent my whole carrier in communications.

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    1. Robins AFB
      career

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    2. Would have been a great airplane if the AF had ever bought enough spares for it. My son worked on them and spent quite a bit of time at the boneyard in AZ pulling parts to use on operational aircraft.

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    3. I completed my BS in MIS at GA Southern and was pressing the age limit for a commission. If the USAF hadn't pulled the B1's I had a good shot as a pilot. I had asperations of working for Fedex or any other air cargo carrier. Instead I worked IT until the 2001 IT bust then worked as a Satcom tech, my military training, making stupid good money until I got hurt and got medically retired.

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    4. Replaced by cruise missiles.

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  4. If memory serves, each engine in full afterburner has a fuel flow rate of something like 56,000 lbs an hour. Works out to about 140 gallons a minute per engine.

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  5. We went to the Thunder and Lightning Airshow at Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) this past weekend, and s-i-l drove us past the Boneyard in which they had a couple'o Bones parked next to an old Buff. The Airshow was great....a nice performance by the F-35A Lightning Demonstration pilot leading into the Thunderbirds. The finale, of course, was the Thunderbird High Bomb Burst. Grandkids had a great time, which meant that this old guy did too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8rFAwHPUo

    azlibertarian

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  6. I see them every day...

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