[Unrepentant VN Vet]

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.

[WaltStuart]

Congrats.

[MileHi]

-3 is in a museum at Denver

Where is that? I know there is a big bomber (buff?) at the entrance to the Air Force Academy but it isn't a B-1A

[tang-soo]

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.

To be precise, The B1 was designed and built by Rockwell International - much of it in my hometown, Columbus, Ohio. Rockwell then became part of Boeing Aerospace in 1996 as part of the large aerospace consolidation during the last few decades.