How do you explain that? I thought Trump was reinforcing the military with megabucks??
Oh, yeah.
B-1A was 45 years ago, during the Carter Cluster.
After cancellation, that noble bird sat out in Palmdale until Reagan got into office and set Boeing to work on the B-1B aka The BONE.
Only A models left are in museums or the Boneyard. (-1 is at Wright-Patterson, -2 crashed during Flight Test, -3 is in a museum at Denver and -4 got stress-tested into pieces in '73 or so)
I still stand tall when a BONE passes by during a training hop.
Might not be my airplane but it's damn well my airplane's offspring.