Its swing wings could tuck in to reduce drag for low-supersonic flight, or extend wide for maximal lift while going low and slow. Its limited stealth characteristics gave the big bomber a radar ...

Two Air Force B-1 bombers conducted an overflight of a disputed South China Sea shoal together with Philippines jet fighters ...

Cracked engine part sparked giant B-1 bomber fire, investigation finds The ... the 76th Expeditionary Depot Maintenance Flight and the 569th Egress Flight at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma ...

First, the B-1 is the fastest bomber in the stable ... sweep wings is the ability to change the shape of the aircraft mid-flight, hence changing the aircraft’s flight characteristics.

The U.S. and Philippines flew a joint patrol over the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea guarded by Beijing's ...

Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

Three FA-50PH jet fighter aircraft from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and two B-1 "Lancer" supersonic variable-sweep heavy ...

Boom's Supersonic XB-1 jet became the “world’s first independently developed supersonic jet” to break the sound barrier ...