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| Official Photos
- USAF Bombers |
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 #? |
| 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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