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US Air Force The Air Force has taken the first step in its plan to divest 17 B-1B bombers in the coming months, sending the first Lancer to the "boneyard." The divestments will reduce the active B-1 fleet to 45 aircraft, and the service plans to retire all of them by 2036. The first B-1B Lancer bomber has headed to the Boneyard, Air Force Global Strike Command announced Wednesday. It's the first step in the Air Force's plan to divest 17 of the bombers in coming months, reducing the active B-1 fleet to 45 aircraft. "Beginning to retire legacy bombers, to make way ...

By   Feb 19, 2021 07:39 AM EST The start of retirement for the B-1B Bomber has begun as they, the B-21 Raiders, will come into prominence. Still capable of operation, but it is aging fast against new technology used in fighters, and antiaircraft defenses dictate it a risk.  One of the first B-1B Lancers going to the Boneyard was confirmed by the Air Force Global Strike Command. It announced last Wednesday as the planes will be mothballed and reducing the bomber fleet. Lancers are getting replaced This is the first step to slimming down the number of Lancers in the months to come. After all ...

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. – During a reorganization ceremony, the 355th Medical Group consolidated from three squadrons to two at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Feb. 2, 2021.,

Artist Bill Hammond, photographed with one of his paintings in 1994, has died. The story of Aotearoa’s art history cannot be told without mentioning Bill Hammond’s work, Arts Minister Carmel Sepuloni said of the exalted artist following his death. Hammond, one of New Zealand’s leading artists, was a legendary figure in his home in the port town of Lyttelton, just outside Christchurch. One of his best known works, Fall of Icarus, is displayed at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o WaiwhetÅ« Hammond’s famed paintings often had enviro...

US Air Force/Kelly White "Ghost Rider" and "Wise Guy," the only B-52 Stratofortress bombers to be resurrected from the Air Force's "boneyard," are undergoing maintenance before returning to Minot Air Force Base. Both were retired to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Arizona and were never to fly again, but they've been resurrected to bring the fleet back to the Congressionally mandated 76 B-52s. Only two B-52 Stratofortress bombers have been restored out of the Boneyard to be returned to the fleet: "Ghost Rider," tail number 61-0007, and "...