With the curves, the variable wing and the crackle of the engines, to me, one one the most organically beautiful aircraft ever built. Almost a living thing.
We were on a detachment to Anderson AFB in Guam. I got to see one take off close up and when the afterburners lit, it really rattled the bones in my body!!! Impressive bird!
You can't imagine the brutal sound of an afterburner until you heard it. Someone once said to me that it's like the air get's torn apart. When I experienced it close up years later I knew exactly what he ment! 😮😂
Yeah one took off at Hickam and we all stopped our conversation and were in aww and I'm an aircraft mechanic. After it lifted off you could hear about a dozen car alarms going off.
The day after an airshow in Long Beach CA, I was getting on the freeway to go into LA for business. Even though my windows were up (cool morning) and the radio was up (waking up), and I heard this roar- it was a B-1B taxiing out at the airport. That's Military!!
I was stationed at McConnell AFB Kansas before the B1s your sent to Dyess and Ellsworth. I used to love taking the access road to the south end of the taxiway. You would within 150ft from these things when they took off. They would turn onto the runway, the nozzles would open up and it would get REALLY loud. It was awesome.
Notice the missing "turkey feathers". I believe the exhaust covers were removed for ease of maintenance, despite a little drag penalty. The same with the F-15Es.
Spent a little over 10 years working on those engines, doing the heavy shop maintenance. Generally a good solid engine, sufficiently good to modify into the F110 and F118 for the F-16, U-2, and B-2. But the B-1's day is almost gone. Only 100 B-1Bs were built, and 30 were parked to use for spare parts years and years ago. Had a few lost to accidents, but .ore recently the Air Force parked the 17 worst airframes. The plan is to replace them one-for-one with the B-21 Raiders as they start entering USAF service. But who knows? Maybe they'll find a new role, maritime patrol/attack, maybe . . .
Well, the generation at university now are mostly doing Politics, Sociology or Gender Studies, so this kind of stuff will all be too hard for them. On the upside, MacDonalds will have a good chunk of the graduate crop to select from, once the big corporations have creamed off the top performers for their HR departments that is.
@@nickmiller76I think it’s the opposite these days. All of the business engineering and med schools are extremely competitive and getting into liberal arts college is super easy.
The readiness rate for B-1 airframes regularly drops below 25%. Abysmal. There have actually been periods where among the 60 or so aircraft in the inventory, less than 10 were available for missions.
If we were on a wartime footing, like with another country that I want name here, I guarantee they would almost all be up and running. It's about cost and current readiness needs.
What a piece of engineering.
Russian engineering
With the curves, the variable wing and the crackle of the engines, to me, one one the most organically beautiful aircraft ever built. Almost a living thing.
She is a 'beaut".
Then you must also love the tu-160
Welkomme back!
Russian junk is not even worth mentioning@@Robert-Cinque777
Those nozzles are works of art. Great to see them all operating like that👍
Beautiful shot!! Most people have NO IDEA how hard it is to follow in telephoto!! Really, great job!!!
We were on a detachment to Anderson AFB in Guam. I got to see one take off close up and when the afterburners lit, it really rattled the bones in my body!!! Impressive bird!
You can't imagine the brutal sound of an afterburner until you heard it. Someone once said to me that it's like the air get's torn apart. When I experienced it close up years later I knew exactly what he ment! 😮😂
You just got boned
Yeah one took off at Hickam and we all stopped our conversation and were in aww and I'm an aircraft mechanic. After it lifted off you could hear about a dozen car alarms going off.
@@boarder904 It is very true...and a very good comparison. Four lit AB will shake anybody to the core.
The day after an airshow in Long Beach CA, I was getting on the freeway to go into LA for business. Even though my windows were up (cool morning) and the radio was up (waking up), and I heard this roar- it was a B-1B taxiing out at the airport. That's Military!!
A thing of beauty. And power.
I was stationed at McConnell AFB Kansas before the B1s your sent to Dyess and Ellsworth. I used to love taking the access road to the south end of the taxiway. You would within 150ft from these things when they took off. They would turn onto the runway, the nozzles would open up and it would get REALLY loud. It was awesome.
Dyess got B-1's before Mconnell
I live next door to mcconnel , i watch ewacs and tankers all day everyday
Love this aircraft. Never really spent much time looking at it directly from side like that and I gotta say, I still like it!
I hate the NATO!
❤❤ MAJOR GOOSEBUMPS EVERYTIME . GORGEOUS!!!
Always cool to see the nozzles upclose
To me, the BONE is one of the most beautiful planes ever built.
Thanks for the vid 👍
That's one seriously formidable jet!
Some engineer saw 2 f-15s parked side by side, and the rest was history
*#Awesome**👍*
Great video of monster aircraft. The internal glow of the engines and that massive heat plume tells the story. 😮
Beautiful bird!
Notice the missing "turkey feathers". I believe the exhaust covers were removed for ease of maintenance, despite a little drag penalty. The same with the F-15Es.
And the MSgt who suggested that idea got a $20K payment for saving the costs of repairs and maintaining a supply of the titanium parts!
Spent a little over 10 years working on those engines, doing the heavy shop maintenance. Generally a good solid engine, sufficiently good to modify into the F110 and F118 for the F-16, U-2, and B-2. But the B-1's day is almost gone. Only 100 B-1Bs were built, and 30 were parked to use for spare parts years and years ago. Had a few lost to accidents, but .ore recently the Air Force parked the 17 worst airframes. The plan is to replace them one-for-one with the B-21 Raiders as they start entering USAF service. But who knows? Maybe they'll find a new role, maritime patrol/attack, maybe . . .
Spent a month at Fairford with a Dyess B1 deployment...in 1995. But hey, I'm not old!
I really enjoy your videos thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
Pretty amazing on the exhaust of the B-1B Lancer 🤩😎
stunning…ty for posting
Nice detail there BL👍 I see you feature in the Cobra E video!🪜
Wow....this is amazing 👏
What a sight it must be!!!
What a beautiful Bird 👏👍👍
Your vids are amazing 😮❤
Awesome footage of the mighty jet. Sound incredible man. Subbed 😊😊😊
Simply EPIC!
B1 is an epic plane
Awesome 👌
Absolutely beautiful. 👍
It's funny our grandparents generation engineered and built most of these jets that we still think are modern and badass today.
Well, the generation at university now are mostly doing Politics, Sociology or Gender Studies, so this kind of stuff will all be too hard for them. On the upside, MacDonalds will have a good chunk of the graduate crop to select from, once the big corporations have creamed off the top performers for their HR departments that is.
@@nickmiller76I think it’s the opposite these days. All of the business engineering and med schools are extremely competitive and getting into liberal arts college is super easy.
Awesome 👍✈️
Never fails to impress!
Awesome - ty
A very impressive machine.
Was this video taken from outside of RAF Fairford, or from inside the fence?
The Bone is still one of the most beautiful feats of aviation engineering.
Esta aeronave é um charme.
Amazing video
Thats one bad arse bird. You know you're in for a bad day if this things coming for you!
And there goes every car alarm on base.
The readiness rate for B-1 airframes regularly drops below 25%. Abysmal. There have actually been periods where among the 60 or so aircraft in the inventory, less than 10 were available for missions.
If we were on a wartime footing, like with another country that I want name here, I guarantee they would almost all be up and running. It's about cost and current readiness needs.
Great video!
Are those the same engines that the F-15 uses? The thrust nozzles look identical!
F-15 uses F100, B-1 uses F101
incredible Engineering. The Power..
A truly beautiful plane
Those engines look like they are straight out of Star wars
Hope there’s one or two of these at the Air Tattoo in July 🤞🤞
Luke AFB had 2 B-1s for Luke Days open house. One static display and the other did a demonstration. It leaped off the runway.
The technical term for them is Variable area exhaust nozzles....!
Powerful beastie
Bad arse plane that looks cool. Concorde that can kick arse
Thank you for your valuable contribution to the discussion.
Sounds of freedom USA
The sound of freedom for the USA and enslavement for the rest of the world.
awesome
For all its flaws it’s still a great looking plane.
I'd wanna see a dummy the size and weight of a human placed 10 meters behind the nozzles and see how far it's blown off.
Beautiful but an absolute maintenance nightmare. Has been since day 1.
One of the few planes that uses full flaps and slats on takeoff. Anyone know another?
Zone 20 baby!
Pretty!
👏👌👍👍
🔥🔥🔥🔥🛫🛫
Takeoff is as loud as the old KC-135A's were, but less smoke.
That was cool.
great
Funny…coffee has the same effect on me in the mornings
😍
The Mighty Bone ....
That is one rediculous amount of power for ONE single airplane.
Thunderbirds are GO.
Still looks like a plane from the future
Apply the re-heaters!
AB 5.
You should see it at night.
👍💯💯💯👍
Majestic plane... S-300 wants to know your location ;)
She was heavy
I just will not understand...83,000+ views at this point and ONLY 988 👍 -- are the viewers in comas?
It’s old fashioned? It’s got wheels !
Assigned to the 9th Bomb squadron, 7th Bomb Wing
Car alarm is crying now, thanks.
🙂
It has 4 Anooses... 😶
Thats me after chilli
United States Air Force!
I’d never have guessed fancy that 🤷♂️
looks insanely expensive
Jet engine go O○O○°
oooo aicraft pindostan
4 F-15 engines. Crikey...
they are not the same engine
No turkey feathers!
About as lethal an airplane as you will find.
Just a bigger F-111 swingey
The F-111 was a far more capable penetrator. It was also more available and not down for maintenance all the time.
I can't hear you!
When aesthetics meets brutality.
cool as f-ck
If that don't give ya half a horn nuthin will
that really is sex on a stick
powerful US military👍💪💪💪
Concorde with passengers eating and drinking the finest cuisine could leave it for dead...
That's exactly what Concorde did, leave people dead. Not the enemy though.
Which it did.
The B-1B, sure. The B-1A, which had intakes designed for real supersonic flight, would have been comparable to Concorde.
Thank you for your valuable contribution to the discussion.
Those things shrunk up faster than Joe's ass when his 8 ball was found.