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ConceptClear2217@reddit

B1-s They are our supersonic strategic bombers.

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2cimage@reddit

‘With all the will in the world, Diving for dear life, When we could be diving for pearls’…

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johnbobk@reddit

Shipbuilding

https://youtu.be/l_aLSsjZMr8?si=bJ1Nxjr1rFYiZ2nd

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Messyeater5@reddit

I caught it down in south Devon too! It was a lot higher up down here though 🙁

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johnbobk@reddit

It was reasonably low & heading S over us in Corsham, guess it had climbed by the time it got to you. Wonder where it was going 🤔

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No-Chair-3167@reddit

I’m not 100% certain but I believe people call those airplanes don’t quote me on that though

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Striking_Drink5464@reddit

They are grace, power and a massive pile of money. And the demonstration that 60s and 70s engineering was something else. The B1 Lancer.

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def_not_a_gril@reddit

Royal international air tattoo - biggest military airshow in the world (I think?)

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agha0013@reddit

Paris is probably a bit bigger because it has larger industry coverage with commercial and business on top of military whereas RIAT is mostly focused on military

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johnbobk@reddit

Yes, Paris is also a sales, commercial meet up rather like Farnborough & combines arms rather than a public air show/ display.

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d_repz@reddit

Paris is an Airshow for - new - general aviation aircraft, military and otherwise; RIAT is an airshow for aviation aircraft already in service.

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Iliyan61@reddit

so parris isn’t a bigger military airshow then

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agha0013@reddit

digging around online in a few places, Paris seems to have almost twice the visitors and has more exhibits over a larger property than RIAT.

Then Oshkosh is apparently bigger by visitors and aircraft numbers overall but it's a somewhat different kind of event, the fly in portion drives the numbers up quite a bit, and it doesn't have the same primarily corporate focus.

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Pocketz7@reddit

The original scope was military airshow

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Hot_Hall579@reddit

AKA The Bone.

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JohnGazman@reddit

Already? RIAT is still 85 days away.

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aka_Handbag@reddit

Now I’m curious how long it is until someone tells us which year it is, based on what’s in the static park!

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Blackhawk510@reddit

I was there for that RIAT, too!

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johnbobk@reddit

Thanks, yes 1 came over us yesterday; near Corsham. Just had a very, very low C17 which is happening more frequently now ~2 or 3 a week. Guess we are under a Brize Norton track.

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tufftricks@reddit

Rockwell B1-B Lancer. Also known as the Bone. Big daddy super sonic bomber that never really reached its true potential

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cheetuzz@reddit

what was its full potential? why didn’t it reach it?

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NathanArizona@reddit

It’s true potential was doing a super-sonic low level penetration of Russia and dropping nuclear bombs on high value targets. Luckily it never reached its full potential.

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lolariane@reddit

Pretty sure full potential is slowly getting back on the menu, unfortunately.

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ScarHand69@reddit

Yeah and it was able to fly low level due to a terrain-following radar which is also a giant megaphone that screams “Here I am!”

luckily it never reached its full potential

If it did a shitload of them would have been shot down

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bo-monster@reddit

Watching Russian air defense performance in/around Ukraine, I’m starting to wonder just how many really would have been shot down. I think we overestimated the Bear for a long time.

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evthrowawayverysad@reddit

I don't doubt that they're overestimated, but they're probably smart enough to have kept a lot of their more advanced hardware out of the conflict with Ukraine, especially if it was joint developed with China, in order to avoid giving valuable sigint data to NATO.

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ScarHand69@reddit

Maybe. Don’t forget they shot down Gary Powers at a height they thought untouchable. Even though they were flying fast at treetop height they woulda been a helluva lot easier to hit than a speck on the edge of the atmosphere and the Soviets would have had plenty of warning to prepare.

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bo-monster@reddit

No, a speck up high is fairly easy, especially if it flies straight predictable trajectories as the U-2 does. A platform moving fast down low is much harder, even if it’s just because of radio horizon issues. You only get a short time to react. Add terrain and it becomes even harder.

You only need to look at the success the Ukrainians had with various cruise missiles to see the failings of the Russian systems. Often the cruise missiles would fly right by S-400 batteries on their way to targets in Crimea. Sometimes, the S-400 equipment WAS the target. In all cases, the S-400 performed much worse than expected. Tor and Buk haven’t had many successes either. The biggest threat is a soldier with a MANPADS.

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NathanArizona@reddit

Ok

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titsmuhgeee@reddit

It was originally conceived as a bomber that had the Mach 2 speed of the B-58 Hustler, combined with the payload of the B-52 Stratofortress. The original project was cancelled in 1977 due to the introduction of cruise missiles and stealth technology making the B-2 feasible, making the B-1 obsolete. It was restarted in 1981 when the B-2 project started to drag out far longer than expected, leaving the USAF behind in bomber technology.

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StephenHunterUK@reddit

Carter got raked over the coals for that decision at the time.

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LilAbeSimpson@reddit

Be thankful it’s true purpose was never needed. LOL

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efficientkiwi75@reddit

went through a couple of role changes due to the cold war ending

has had a nice long career nonetheless

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Hank_moody71@reddit

I mean only because we haven’t needed to drop nukes, but it’s in service still.

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Rude-Dentist-2493@reddit

Classic, the Bone is unmistakable once you know what to look for. Fairford’s always got something interesting coming and going, so you picked a good spot to spot them.

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jsmeeker@reddit

boner!!

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masaaav@reddit

No, B-1R was rejected :(

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Lordhartley@reddit

Yeah, the spec on that aircraft was awesome, did thay ever make a test one I wonder....

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hercdriver4665@reddit

Please share details

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Lordhartley@reddit

It was going to be a B1 with F22 engines.

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ElectricalYak7236@reddit

No, if they did we would have known about it.

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MattheiusFrink@reddit

"Welp, we're boned" - Bender B. Rodriguez, probably.

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anonymous4071@reddit

B-1 Lancer, The Bone

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fish_gotta_vote@reddit

Lmfao, your bluey icon made me laugh 😂 as if he was identifying war planes

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F0rbiddenD0nut@reddit

I could see Bluey's dad being an avgeek honestly.

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VMaxF1@reddit

Bandit might've spent a little too long spotting in the sun at Area 51, judging by the lyrics in one of the songs from his earlier career as an alternative artist in the 90s - "Music is crap, aliens told us so"

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thecaramelbandit@reddit

Bluey is a girl!

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fish_gotta_vote@reddit

I changed it! I didnt know that :D

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thecaramelbandit@reddit

As pointed out, the pic is actually Bandit, Bluey's dad.

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kiwi_cam@reddit

It’s okay because the icon is actually Bandit

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Shevyshev@reddit

This is the kind of deep cut I expect from r/aviation. (And on further review I can also confirm that it is, in fact, Bandit.)

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thecaramelbandit@reddit

Ooooh in the tiny icon on my phone I didn't notice. Good catch!

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OwenAirlines@reddit

shouldnt be

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SavlonWorshipper@reddit

Both Vietnam and Afghanistan appear to have happened in the Bluey universe, so there presumably are warplanes. Bluey wouldn't know them, but Rusty might in a few years.

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titsmuhgeee@reddit

The Tehran Tickler

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I_LAUGH_AT_TYRANNY@reddit

One of the B-52's children!

Named "Lancer"

B1-B

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asmrhead@reddit

How do so many people get the hyphen wrong? It's B-1B.

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SilentSniper062@reddit

Hell I don’t know

Maybe because it’s one that doesn’t follow all the others and we’re used to putting like everything else

Dude that’s all I got

A-6E B-52 F-14 F-35 C-5A C-17

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coasterreal@reddit

Oh, so were just posting porn now? Sheesh. *unzips*

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RaccoonElaborate@reddit

Pilots who fly this are ok with murdering potentially millions of people btw.

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AtariFerrariNH@reddit

B-51 Supertrooper

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-AV8R01@reddit

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irwinner@reddit

What happens in my bedroom, Detective, is none of your business.

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Rude_Rhubarb1880@reddit

Last time Swindon got bombed it caused about £10 worth of damage

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RamonBaharanda@reddit

I'd have said £15 quid, but 10's alright...

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Sh00ter80@reddit

THANK YOU. Was waiting for a reference…

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Rude_Rhubarb1880@reddit

That Swindon lot are a bunch of little slugs with no personality

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Sh00ter80@reddit

Ooooh love me... pathetic

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Rude_Rhubarb1880@reddit

And from behind because your breath stinks of jet fuel

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YU_AKI@reddit

All right, Brent

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Rude_Rhubarb1880@reddit

Do you prefer the stuff I do about his little hand?

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YU_AKI@reddit

I don't agree with that in the workplace

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Rude_Rhubarb1880@reddit

Who’s been to the Coventry conference?

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YU_AKI@reddit

Imagine if Eric was a Los Angeles detective.

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Rude_Rhubarb1880@reddit

Yeah my wife loves ya

But I don’t agree with than in the workplace!

What’s that Eric, you’ve given up being a Los Angeles detective and you’ve started running a hotel in Torquay?

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ImNot6Four@reddit

Thats why you don't mess with Tilda Swinton

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Phycosphere@reddit

It’s our gas prices going back up

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Phycosphere@reddit

I’m sorry I meant to say it was our 100LL prices going up.

Now it pertains to aviation

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Salavar1@reddit

B-1Bs

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Imaginary_Grade_1716@reddit

🌚🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝🌝🌚🌝🌚🌝🌝🌚🌝🌜🌚🌜🌝🌚🌝💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀🤖👽😈

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Imaginary_Grade_1716@reddit

Fake Concorde lol

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Metallifan33@reddit

Goodbye OP. Let us know if you live.

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AardQuenIgni@reddit

Fun story, I used to live in a tiny town called Tye, Tx. My house was right under the flight path of Dyess AFB where a lot of these are stationed. We were so close to the base that you could see the pilots from your porch as they flew over, so obviously these things were loud.

But one night around 2am I don't know what happened but the pilot hit his afterburners and it rocked the house so bad, things fell off the shelf. I jumped out of bed thinking it was some kind of explosion. Wife and dogs losing their minds. We chose to go back to bed and worry about the broken pictures and things in the morning.

That next morning I had a meeting with a guy in town and when I got to his office he was furiously typing in one of those "contact us, we'd love to hear from you" feedback boxes on the USAF website. He said he was complaining about that noise and he was expecting something to "be done about it". To no one's surprise but his own, no one got back in touch with him.

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fiittzzyy@reddit

BONE

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alettriste@reddit

things that go boom in the night

Obligatory Bush Tetras

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kaupulehu@reddit

B-1B Lancer

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POGsarehatedbyGod@reddit

Looks like a Henway

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CSARJohn@reddit

The Bone. USAF proud.

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Recon11Bravo@reddit

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death….

If you can see this, you’re not the target.

They are heading out to drop warheads on foreheads.

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i10driver@reddit

The Bone

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Zeltar925@reddit

If you’re an enemy of the United States, you don’t wanna see one of those bombers in your airspace. All hell is getting ready to break loose.

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SteakVegetable6948@reddit

B1B Lancers currently cribbed at Fairford

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Ok-Ad6641@reddit

B1b lancer. Merica

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Conscious_Cicada9597@reddit

B1

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urEnzeder@reddit

B-1. Biggest bomb truck in the US Air Force. They can carry something like 75k lbs...

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MugiwarraD@reddit

Do they carry more Than b52

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thetrappster@reddit

Yes.

125k (typically "only" 75k using internal stores only) vs 70k payload.

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strikeeagle345@reddit

Yes

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moofie74@reddit

Bone.

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Shockdiamonds7171@reddit

That's an old school package delivery platform. It's payload is curtesy of an internal rotating magazine. Someone is going to get 'Boned" tonight! Fer Shure!

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FLDoorman@reddit

Freedom deliverer.

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Equivalent_Tiger_7@reddit

What freedom?

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Dr_Breeder@reddit

Typical daft comment. As a Brit, go gettem yanks!

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HogmanDaIntrudr@reddit

Freedom from their oil

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yellowfoamcow@reddit

I’m also a near Swindoner, it was a bit intense seeing these overhead when picking up my toddler from nursery a few days ago.

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Hot_Net_4845@reddit

B-1s heading to/from RAF Fairford

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squidgy-beats@reddit

They are landing. 1 x B52 and I think it's 7 B1s in the last hour just flew over me

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floofyhaunches@reddit

OMG I’m on a train to Paddington and saw one of them! Couldn’t figure out what it was and nothing was appearing on Flight Radar. I bloody love Reddit.

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Alarming-Produce4541@reddit

Headed east or west? Asking for a friend

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Leadfoot-500@reddit

The beloved B-1B Lancer! 😎🤙🏾

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misterchef711@reddit

A less well known fact is that these beauties have a larger munitions carrying capacity than the B52

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efficientkiwi75@reddit

someone get the OSINT folks on this

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notadroid@reddit

BONES

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40characters@reddit

Low bones!

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IM_REFUELING@reddit

Loud. Loud is what they are.

And awesome.

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eruditezero@reddit

Sopwith Camel, I thnk

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greg90@reddit

retrofitted to carry nukes clearly

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AdvisorOdd4076@reddit

Those are long range bomb trucks. What direction are they flying? The markets could turn on it if the fly southeast...

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MrRager69@reddit

The bone

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BillytheBloxian@reddit

Rockwell B-1B Lancer, supersonic sweep wing strategic bomber.

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ContributionEasy6513@reddit

B1's - About to load up and really ruin someone's day in a few hours

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Ok_Inspector9237@reddit

Rockwell B-1 Lancer

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CrapMaster32@reddit

some kind of airplane, probably

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Signal_Quarter_74@reddit

B-1

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