Joint Service Open House

B-1B Lancer

The B-1B is very big, and very expensive looking. It's also a "swing-wing" airplane, where the angle of sweepback can be adjusted for different airspeeds.

Closer views. You can click on the right-hand picture to enlarge it; use your browser's "back" command to return here.

In the full-size version of the right-hand picture, I could read the aircraft's serial number, which is 86-0133. It is based at Dyess AFB in Texas.

This is actually two pictures spliced together (you can see some ghosting near the nose); the plane was too big to fit in one picture. The people lined up under the fuselage were waiting to climb a ramp to visit the cockpit.

You can click on the right-hand picture to enlarge it; use your browser's "back" command to return here. From the rear, the B-1B looks like a spaceship/UFO from a Hollywood movie.