Aerial photographer Mark Holtzman had just a few heartbeats to capture a B-2 Spirit bomber and the football stadium at the perfect angle in one frame, all while flying at 100 miles per hour in one direction as the B-2 flew about 200 miles per ...
The B-2 Spirit bomber will make its highly anticipated return to the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game in southern California on Jan. 1, 2024—the latest in a series of bomber flyovers of football games this fall and winter.
U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers teamed up with the U.K.’s Royal Air Force F-35 Lightning IIs to fly across Europe’s North Sea in a single-day exercise. A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, U.K., providing air-to-air refueling for the mission. ...
The Air Force has disclosed the organizational emblems on the first B-21 bomber, too faint to make out at the aircraft's Dec. 2 rollout. The heraldry is that of Air Force Materiel Command, Global Strike Command, and the 412th Test Wing.
Eight of the Air Force’s 20 B-2s assembled on one runway at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., on Nov. 7, for a rare “elephant walk” of the service’s stealth bomber. The gathering of B-2s from the 509th Bomb Wing, along with the Air National Guard’s 131st ...
Northrop Grumman has revealed new details about the B-21 Raider ahead of the bomber's rollout Dec. 2. Calling the B-21 a "sixth-generation" aircraft, the company confirmed that the bomber will rely on external support platforms; that it has a "digital twin" to aid development; and ...
A B-2 bomber is lying damaged on the side of the runway at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., after a crash early Sep. 14. Air Force Global Strike Command is withholding information about the condition of the aircraft and the operational status of Whiteman’s sole ...
Two B-2 Spirits and two B-1B Lancers linked up near Iceland for a training mission March 16, highlighting the importance the Air Force is placing on the Arctic region. The four bombers flew a “long-range integration” in the high north, flying together off the coast ...
B-2s deployed to Europe on March 16, conducting a hot-pit refeuling at Lajes Field, Portugal, before taking off again to conduct bomber task force missions in the region. The undisclosed number of B-2s took off from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., and did the hot-pit ...
The Air Force's experimental runway shelter for the new B-21 bomber is large enough to cover it or the B-2, and therefore reveals no information about the dimensions of the new aircraft. Two such shelters will be evaluated, but the maker of the second version ...
The Air Force may have inadvertently revealed the size of the secret B-21 bomber with the release of an image of a temporary shelter for the airplane. The service is evaluating several designs for temporary shelters for everyday use and deployment to temporary operating locations. ...
Air Force B-1s and B-2s deployed to the Indo-Pacific came together to train with U.S. and Australian joint terminal attack controllers down under, dropping training bombs at three different training ranges throughout August. The B-1s, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and B-2s deployed ...