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[kach22i]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Well, it's sposed to be a little stealth....

This is true, back in the early and mid 1970's I used to buy a lot of "Air Combat" magazines and the B1 was given much press then. The radar cross section and blended wing technology with buried engine nacelles were the big thing.

Sadly from what I recall the low level run crew escape pod did not make the
production version.

http://www.ejectionsite.com/b1amodule.htm

The module was dropped in favor of the lighter weight B-1B ACES II ejection seat systems.

The General Dynamics F-111

[widebody911]

[GG Allin]

Originally Posted by BE911SC

If a B-1 is going fast enough you don't hear it coming! In full afterburner it burns 80,000 pounds of fuel per hour. I used to fly the KC-135R and was co-located with two B-1 squadrons. I never got tired of the roar of a B-1 full-blower departure. Jet noise, especially from something like a B-1, truly is the sound of freedom!

Two of them took off over the building I worked in two summers ago, about a 1/2 mile west of O'Hare. This was the week after the air show. Scared the bejesus out of everyone in the office. I was close enough to the window to catch a glimpse.



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Originally Posted by kach22i

Sadly from what I recall the low level run crew escape pod did not make the production version.
http://www.ejectionsite.com/b1amodule.htm

The one time it was used it failed and killed Rockwell s chief test pilot.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by rick-l

The one time it was used it failed and killed Rockwell s chief test pilot.

The link I provided said 2 out of 3 survived the low level crash. This is still better than other low level B-1 crashes where no one survived.

http://www.ejectionsite.com/b1seat.htm


http://www.ejectionsite.com/

[rouxroux]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Yes, many mistake them for 60-64 Corvairs!


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[daepp]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Not a T34 sadly.

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[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by BE911SC

If a B-1 is going fast enough you don't hear it coming! In full afterburner it burns 80,000 pounds of fuel per hour. I used to fly the KC-135R and was co-located with two B-1 squadrons. I never got tired of the roar of a B-1 full-blower departure. Jet noise, especially from something like a B-1, truly is the sound of freedom!

maybe this is you: ..........






Man that's one good looking bird.
too bad it's so darn loud .......

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[widebody911]

Originally Posted by daepp

Not a T34 sadly.

It was an April Fool's joke on the T34 site

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