First flight of Tacit Blue “Whale,” which demonstrated that curvilinear surfaces were valuable in foiling radar. It leads to advances that live on in the B-2 and the F/A-22.
The B-21 Raider stealth bomber was recently flown, for the first time, by an operational pilot as part of its flight test process, the Air Force said June 11. And a top Pentagon official said the move to bring operational testing into the B-21 process earlier than normal shows the…