The various Rockwell companies list a large number of firsts in their histories, including the World War II P-51 Mustang fighter and the B-25 Mitchell bomber, and the Korean War-era F-86 Sabre, as well as the Apollo spacecraft, the B-1 Lancer bomber, the Space Shuttle, and most of the Navstar Global Positioning System satellites.

The completion of the Space Shuttle program and cancellation of the B-1 bomber had led to a decline in revenues, and Beall sought to diversify the company away from government contracts.

This included B-52 and B-1 bomber aircraft assigned to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, respectively.

In early 2010, the B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bomber force was also reassigned to AFGSC, while the B-1 Lancer bomber force remained in ACC due to the B-1's removal from the nuclear strike mission and reassignment to conventional roles only.

One approach, which made it possible to proceed with such new strategic weapon systems as the B-1 bomber, the Trident nuclear submarine, and cruise missiles, was agreement to a substantial cut in conventional forces.

" After six months of hard work, under both peacetime and simulated wartime conditions, the 28 BW and Ellsworth, with extensive personnel, technical and logistical support from sister B-1 units at McConnell, Grand Forks and Dyess Air Force Bases, passed the test " with flying colors "; and proved the B-1 to be a reliable and capable weapons system ; the mainstay of America's heavy bomber fleet for years to come.

USAF B-1 Lancer supersonic strategic bomber

It is likely that this bomber would also serve as a replacement for both the B-52 and B-1.

A future stealth bomber ( project ) to at least complement the current fleet or supplant a portion or all of the B-52 or even B-1 fleet.

North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer.

The classic Boeing B-52, designed in the 1950s, would remain in service until into the 21st century as a high subsonic long-range heavy bomber despite the development of the triple-sonic North American B-70 Valkyrie, supersonic swing-wing Rockwell B-1 Lancer, and flying wing designs.

* October 2-President of the United States Ronald Reagan restarts the Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber program by announcing the order of 100 B-1Bs for the United States Air Force.

Rockwell, meanwhile, adopted variable geometry for the Advanced Manned Strategic Bomber ( AMSA ) program that produced the B-1 Lancer bomber, intended to provide an optimum combination of high-speed cruising efficiency and fast, supersonic penetration speeds at extremely low level.

He voted against Nixon ’ s Supreme Court nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, “ two of Nixon ’ s most embarrassing defeats ,” as well as Nixon ’ s proposals for the B-1 bomber, submarines capable of carrying the Trident missile and the supersonic transport ( SST ).

* June 30 – President of the United States Jimmy Carter cancels the United States Air Forces Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber program.

He was such an unswerving advocate for the development of the B-1 bomber, that he was soon nicknamed " B-1 Bob.

* B-1 Lancer, a United States Air Force strategic bomber

multiservice communication system and the B-1 bomber ”

Alzada was briefly in the news in September 1997 when a B-1 bomber crashed nearby.

* B-1 Lancer bomber — from " B-one "

Mihdhar was so eager to participate in jihad operations in the United States that he had already obtained a one-year B-1 / B-2 ( tourist / business ) multiple-entry visa from the consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 7, 1999, one day after obtaining a new passport.

Jack " Jay " Palmer, an employee of the company, filed a civil suit in 2011 in Federal court in Alabama in the U. S. alleging that Infosys was misusing B-1 visas.

Tensions continued intensifying in the early 1980s when Reagan revived the B-1 Lancer program that was canceled by the Carter administration, produced LGM-118 Peacekeepers, installed US cruise missiles in Europe, and announced his experimental Strategic Defense Initiative, dubbed " Star Wars " by the media, a defense program to shoot down missiles in mid-flight.

While on assignment to the 6510th ’ s Flight Test Engineering Directorate, he was project engineer on a limited flying qualities evaluation of the RC-135S aircraft and, as lead B-1 flying qualities flight test engineer, was responsible for the stability and control and flight control system testing performed on the B-1 aircraft.

He was also responsible, as chief B-1 flight test engineer, for training and supervising all Air Force B-1 flight test engineer crewmembers and for performing the mission planning for the B-1 offensive avionics test aircraft.

During the mission, the crew deployed satellites for Canada ( ANIK C-2 ) and Indonesia ( PALAPA B-1 ); operated the Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) to perform the first deployment and retrieval exercise with the Shuttle Pallet Satellite ( SPAS-01 ); conducted the first formation flying of the Orbiter with a free-flying satellite ( SPAS-01 ); carried and operated the first U. S ./ German cooperative materials science payload ( OSTA-2 ): and operated the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System ( CFES ) and the Monodisperse Latex Reactor ( MLR ) experiments, in addition to activating seven Getaway Specials, Mission duration was 147 hours before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on June 24, 1983.

He reappeared to compete in the B-1 Grand Prix, but was defeated by Pretty Bomber in 1st round.

He reappeared to compete in the B-1 Grand Prix, but was defeated by Bomber Kid.

It reappeared to compete in the B-1 Grand Prix and was able to win first round.

* Silver Bomber – A senior B-1 Grand Prix competitor against Shirobon in the second round, who was defeated by Shirobon using Silver Bomber's own technique.

" Pretty Bomber won the first round in the B-1 Grand Prix, but was absent in the second round.

She reappeared to compete in the B-1 Grand Prix, but lost in the first round when the pool where Dolphin Bomber is in dried up.

It reappeared to compete in the B-1 Grand Prix, but when it fought against Hige-hige unit # 156 in the first round, it lost.

By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.

He used the new passport to acquire a new B-1 / B-2 visa in Jeddah on April 23, again recopying his answers from previously although crossing out the lines regarding Mushabib and previous attempts to acquire a visa.

Beginning on 7 October 2001, the US again commenced military operations from Diego Garcia using B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers to attack enemy targets in Afghanistan following the attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

B-1 Lancer | B-1B Lancer Bombers on Diego Garcia, November, 2001, during the bombing campaign in Afghanistan

This worked on the B-1 prototype step of the chip, but Digital Research discovered problems with the emulation on the production level C-1 step in May, which would not allow Concurrent DOS 286 to run 8086 software in protected mode.

Hazmi obtained a B-1 / B-2 tourist visa on April 3, 1999 from the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using a new passport he acquired a few weeks earlier.

Throughout the day, the TACP forward air controllers and Special Forces recce teams that had infiltrated into the area the previous day called in airstrikes from B-1, B-52, F-15, F-18s and F-16 aircraft, inflicting heavy casualties on the Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, but by no means silencing them.

ATLAS is used in the Air Force primarily on test stations for testing the avionic components of the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III, and B-1 Lancer.

* He 111 B-2: As B-1, but with DB600GG engines, and extra radiators on either side of the engine nacelles under the wings.

Also, some sources quote Mount Michelson's height as 9, 239 ft, which would make it the highest point ; however, this is far above the 8, 855 foot figure given on the USGS Mount Michelson B-1 quadrangle topographic map, so it is unlikely to be correct.

In 1995, G Rap started his solo career with the album 4, 5, 6, which featured production from Buckwild, and guest appearances from Nas, MF Grimm and B-1 – it has been his most commercially successful record, reaching No. 24 on the US Billboard 200 album chart.

The USAF planned to return McConnell to being an air refueling hub, and as a result the B-1 equipped 28th Bomb Squadron was reassigned without equipment or personnel to the 7th OG at Dyess AFB, Texas on 1 October 1994.

Its B-1 aircraft were transferred across the runway to the Kansas Air National Guard 127th Bomb Squadron and the 384th BG was inactivated on 30 September 1994.

The 20th Bomb Squadron was reassigned to the 2d Wing on December 17, 1992 when it and its B-52Hs were reassigned to Barksdale from the 7th Wing, the latter which was relocating from the closing Carswell AFB, Texas and transferring to Dyess AFB, Texas in order to transition to the B-1 Lancer.