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10/8/2001 10:21:33 AM EDT
Was this action by the B1, the first combat use of this aircraft? I guess we can thank Ronald
Reagan for saving the aircraft, as Jimmie Carter
scrapped the B1A.  John
10/8/2001 11:49:41 AM EDT
[#1]
No first action was over Yugoslavia.  Philanderer-In-Chief Clinton even pointed out one of the crew members in the audience in his state-of-the-union speech (after the bombing of that country).

Should be much better now with the Block D upgrades for conventional warfare.
10/8/2001 12:47:17 PM EDT
[#2]
The B-1B was used against targets in Iraq in 98, SOF made two articles on them at that time.
10/17/2001 11:35:21 AM EDT
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I used to work (civilian) as an engineer at a repair depot that serviced B1B and F16 fire control radar systems. Them's some bad assed planes!!!!!
10/18/2001 6:46:55 AM EDT
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I used to work (civilian) as an engineer at a repair depot that serviced B1B and F16 fire control radar systems. Them's some bad assed planes!!!!!
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Cool, you work at Nortrhop-Grumman in the East Building? I worked on the B1-B radar system for the Block D upgrades.
11/1/2001 12:33:22 PM EDT
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I used to work (civilian) as an engineer at a repair depot that serviced B1B and F16 fire control radar systems. Them's some bad assed planes!!!!!
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Cool, you work at Nortrhop-Grumman in the East Building? I worked on the B1-B radar system for the Block D upgrades.
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Nah - I worked in Hunt Valley at the ERC before they relocated it to BWI. I got laid off at the end of the cold war (it was still Westinghouse).
I still know a few folks at NG though and go to the King's Dominion Family Day trip every October. I miss it a lot, but I'm in telecom now and things are looking up.