[ProtectOurFreedom]

...upgrading monochrome displays to color? ...avionics with moving maps?

Color me IMPRESSED! Us peon consumers can only DREAM of such advanced technology. Maybe we'll get such amazing innovations the same day our flying cars are delivered.

[spokeshave]

Just updating the production line so can sell it to the Chicoms.

[noiseman]

And Jimmy Carter tried to kill the B-1. Thank God for Ronald Reagan.

[null and void]

ping

[Fractal Trader]

This is what I wish they had done: turning the B-1 into a plane which can cruise faster than the speed of sound:

http://bagera3005.deviantart.com/art/Boeing-B-1R-Lancer-98328881

[Psalm 73]

Current inventory: 66 B-1B

(20 B-2; 85 B-52 + 9 Reserve)

[Mr. Jeeves]

The B1 pilots have probably been wondering why their personal Toyotas have better navigation systems than their aircraft. :)

[SES1066]

Like the very venerable 'BUFF' B-52, the B1B needs this due to its age; "The final B-1B was delivered May 2, 1988."

No one can say that we taxpayers are not getting our money's worth out of these programs ... but considering that the B-52A went into service in 1954, we could have not just grandkids but g-grandkids of the original pilots flying them soon, WOW!

[G Larry]

Served in the USAF and worked next to the flight line, so I’ve seen lot’s of cool stuff, but, nothing quite matches a lazy vacation, floating on Lake Powell a few years back.

B-1 flew directly overhead at about 500 ft. at about 400 mph.

[hattend]

The sexiest aircraft flying today

Da Bone