Do they HAVE to use afterburners to take off even from very long runways? How do massive heavy commercial and cargo jets like A380, AN-124, C-5, C-17, 747 etc manage to do heavy departures without burners? Wouldnt no burners = decrease engine wear, less noise etc. Just curious about this! Nice video!
In full after burner. All four engines are producing 124,000lbs of thrust. This sound a lot and believe me when I say you can hear that power! The turbofan engines on large cargo and airliners are hugely powerful helped in part by the huge front fans. Some Boeing 777 engine produce over 80,000lbs thrust each.
At 0:06 during the control motion check you can see the asymmetric motion of the horizontal stabs. That's how the B-1 handles roll control with wings aft because it does not have ailerons.
When Russia and the U.S. signed the START treaty in 2007 to reduce nuclear armament, the B1 Lancer had a metal sleeve welded to a pylon to prevent the B1 from carrying cruise missiles. Now that Russia has backed out of the START treaty, does anyone know whether the U.S. is enabling Lancers to once again carry cruise missiles? With North Korea, China, and Russia all talking about nuclear war, it would seem a prudent step.
any word if the US/UK deal is going ahead for the US to base strategic bombers back in the UK again for the foreseeable.... but given US election results..who knows..
Just made the trip to Tucson to the Pima air and space museum. After that we drove around the boneyard and saw 2 B1 bombers up near the fence and road. Crazy that people live across the street and see them from their yards
