Boeing North American B-1 Lancer

{detailed description}Volume 19 in the Warbird Tech Series: Boeing North American B-1 Lancer.
By January 1971, the B-1A contract had already been modified. Instead of five B-1A prototypes, there would only be three. There was still a lot of enthusiasm within the B-1a program, but this marked the beginning of the end for the B-1A as a production bomber. Then, in early 1981, Ronald Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter in the White House and the largest peace-time military build-up in U.S. history began. Only the b-52G/H and FB-111A remained in operational service with SAC. But suddenly, the Air Force found itself getting not one, but two, new bombers. They were the B-1B Lancer, a modernized version of the cancelled B-1A, and the Northrop B-2A Spirit stealth bomber. The B-1B was the result of a significant re-engineering effort to improve its survivability. Although the B-1B is not considered a stealth aircraft, careful tweaking has resulted in an aircraft that is about 100 times less visible to radar than the B-52H and it is markedly less noticeable than its B-1A predecessor which had a radar cross-section (rcs) of 2.81 square metres.

Profusely illustrated with many black and white photographs, drawings and diagrams
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Steve Pace
published by Speciality Press (USA) 1998 1st edn. 100pp profusely illustrated 21x28 card covers
{condition}good
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