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Official Photos - USAF Bombers
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This page contains photos of present day
USAF test bombers. All North Spin photographs are
Copyright © by the photographers that took them, and are
not to be re-posted or redistributed.
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Subject:
B-2A - AFFTC - Serial #82-1068? |
Location: China
Lake Range, CA |
Date: N/A |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: An F-16
chase looks on as a B-2A drops Mk-82
bombs on the China Lake Range during
a weapons test.
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Subject:
B-52H - AFFTC - Serial #60-0050 |
Location: China
Lake Range, CA |
Date: 9/3/1993 |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: #050 does
a test JDAM release over the China
Lake Range. This B-52 has been a
test aircraft at Edwards for many
years.
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Subject:
B-2A - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#82-1068? |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 2003 |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: A B-2A
performs a JDAM separation test on
the range.
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Subject:
B-52H - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#60-0050 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 2004 |
Credit: David Siu /
USAF |
Notes: #050 takes
off to perform an avionics test, for
the B-52 Avionics Midlife
Improvement program.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#84-0049 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 10/25/2003 |
Credit: Steve Zapka
/ USAF |
Notes: During the
2003 Edwards Air Show, members of
the 419th FLTS attempted 48
different speed records, and also
performed this maximum Mk-82 bomb
release on a nearby range.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#84-0049 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 10/25/2003 |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: Record-breaking
courses on both days of the show
included three 15-, 25-, 100-, 500-
and 1,000-kilometer speed dashes.
#049 was the first Lot III B-1B to
be built.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#85-0068 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 10/26/2003 |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: #068 is a
Lot IV B-1B. It's seen here on the
second day of the 2003 Edwards Air
Show, while attempting numerous
record speed runs.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#85-0075 |
Location: China
Lake Range, CA |
Date: 12/8/2005 |
Credit: James
Shryne / USAF |
Notes: #075 is
seen here during a test flight to
release a 500-pound GBU-38 JDAM for
the first time.
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Subject:
B-2A - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#82-1068? |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 12/?/2004 |
Credit: James
Shryne / USAF |
Notes: The B-2A
assigned to Edwards is seen on an
early morning flight, while
conducting Link-16 tests.
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Subject:
B-52H - 53rd Wing 49th FLTS - Serial
#60-0031 |
Location: Utah Test
& Training Range |
Date: 2005? |
Credit: Jim Shryne
/ USAF |
Notes: A rare
photo of #031 doing a weapons
release test on the range outside
Hill AFB in Utah. This aircraft is
the only B-52H assigned to the 49th
FLTS.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#85-0068 |
Location: China
Lake Range, CA |
Date: 10/30/2003 |
Credit: Steve Zapka
/ USAF |
Notes: #068
releases the first-ever guided Joint
Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile
(JASSM) on the China Lake range.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#85-0068 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 10/26/2003 |
Credit: Bobbi
Garcia / USAF |
Notes: B-1B #068
soars above the 2003 Edwards Air
Show. Over the course of the two day
show, the 419th team set 45 new
world records for speed, and broke
five previously set records. These
records became official 4/30/04.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#84-0049 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 4/9/2004 |
Credit: Bobbi
Garcia / USAF |
Notes: #049
performs a test flight during the
Joint Standoff Weapon - Joint
Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile
Integration program.
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Subject:
B-52H - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#60-0050? |
Location: Alaska |
Date: 2003 |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: An Edwards
B-52H conducts AR over Alaska, while
on a test mission for the Avionics
Mid-life Improvement program.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial #?
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Location: China
Lake Range, CA |
Date: 6/17/2003 |
Credit: Steve Zapka
/ USAF |
Notes: An Edwards
F-16 monitors the test as the Joint
Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is released
from a B-1B for the first time.
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Subject:
B-2A - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#82-1068? |
Location: Utah
Testing & Training Range |
Date: 8/27/2003 |
Credit: Bobbi
Garcia / USAF |
Notes: 32 inert
500 pound JDAM-82 bombs are released
in one drop, during a test that was
building up to an eventual release
of 80 JDAM-82 bombs in September of
2003.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#85-0068? |
Location: China
Lake Range, CA |
Date: 2003 |
Credit: Steve Zapka
/ USAF |
Notes: An Edwards
B-1B is seen in flight during the
test of an inert Joint
Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile
(JASSM).
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Subject:
B-52H - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#60-0050 |
Location: China
Lake Range |
Date: 1/8/2002 |
Credit: Bobbi
Garcia / USAF |
Notes: #050 is
seen releasing an AGM-154A Joint
Standoff Weapon (JSOW). During this
test flight, the 419th team
successfully launched two AGM-154A
weapons at two different targets on
the China Lake Range.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial
#85-0068 |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 10/?/2002 |
Credit: Kristie
Hogbin / USAF |
Notes: #068 is
seen being flown from Edwards to
Dyess AFB by members of the
Operational Test & Evaluation
Center's Det 5. There they will
demonstrate the new 'Block E'
enhancements that allow the B-1B to
release multiple types of weapons in
one mission.
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Subject:
B-1B - 412th TW 419th FLTS - Serial #? |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: 10/?/2001 |
Credit: Phil
Kocurek / USAF |
Notes: An Edwards
B-1B is backed into the Benefield
Anechoic Facility to begin testing
on a new defensive avionics suite.
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Subject:
B-1B - AFFTC - Serial #? |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: N/A |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: Seen early
in the initial flight test program,
this B-1B wears a camouflage paint
scheme.
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Subject:
B-2A - AFFTC - Serial #? |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: N/A |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: A 412th
Test Wing B-2A Stealth Bomber is
seen flying directly over the NASA
Dryden Research Facility at Edwards
AFB, CA.
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Subject:
B-1B - AFFTC - Serial #? |
Location: Edwards
AFB, CA |
Date: N/A |
Credit: USAF |
Notes: An Edwards
B-1B conducts a inert weapons
release test on the PIRA, while a
412th Test Wing F-16 chase follows
in formation.
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