Morning Symphony: Launching The B-1B Lancer With The Candles Lit
Oct 21, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos0
Morning Symphony: Launching The B-1B Lancer With The Candles Lit
The B-52 is probably going to outlive it by at least twenty years. The B-2 Spirit was ten times as radical and who knows how much more expensive to produce and upkeep. But if you’ve never, ever seen a B-1B Lancer make a takeoff run with all four candles lit out the back, trust me, it’s a sight to behold, especially at night. Seeing any aircraft on afterburner is cool. Seeing an aircraft the size of the B-1 with flames trailing out of the back is awesome in the proper sense of the word. It moves faster than it should. It sounds like someone is tearing the sky away from the horizon. And if you aren’t thinking about how cool it must be to be anybody on board of that bomber as it gets airborne, then check your pulse, please. I wouldn’t care if the B-1 was simply a one-off halo for the Air Force’s advertising campaign, this supersonic rocket dart needs to exist.
If you’ve never had the opportunity to meet me in person, you should know that I’m slightly deaf. A drummer, a helicopter technician, someone who has been in very close proximity to some absolutely monstrous explosions that leave you with that punched-in-the-chest feeling, someone who loves loud cars…big shock, right? Well, true story, I can fully blame one of these beauties for being at least half responsible. After attending an airshow near Langely, I was walking with a few others to catch a cab back to base when one of these cleared our head at super-low altitude. We had been walking the runway perimeter and all of us heard church bells for a week afterwards.
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