NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

The pilot of a U.S. regional airliner flying over North Dakota carried out an unexpected sharp turn and later apologized to ...

The B-1B Lancer has long been one of the most capable bomber aircraft ever produced. Able to fly supersonic (and at extremely ...

The accident-prone North American F-100 Super Sabre broke the sound barrier in 1953, setting the stage for an arms race from ...

To this day, the fastest bomber on the face of the Earth is a North American design, even though it never actually took to ...

Even as the B-1B Lancer is on track to be retired in the mid-2030s to make way for the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, the Air ...

The Rockwell B-1 Lancer was developed in the 1970s to replace the legendary B-52 Stratofortress, but decades later, both bombers remain in active service. Why did the supersonic B-1, with its ...

The U.S. Air Force's entire fleet of 65 B-1 Lancer bombers is scheduled to move through D-M in the coming months as base personnel and defense contractors outfit the aircraft with the latest ...

The United States deployed a B-1B Lancer, a supersonic heavy bomber, to Northeast Asia for a joint exercise with South Korea and Japan. The move is in response to North Korea’s recent test of a new ...

The B-1 is one of three long-range U.S. bombers. The supersonic aircraft carries conventional weapons and is capable of taking off from the U.S. to strike targets overseas in a single mission. The ...

Photos show the B-1 carrying a large bomb on the forward right hard point. And it looks like it’s GBU-72/B, the new 5,000 pound “Bunker Buster”. A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber was ...

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