The pit stop, also known as hot pit refueling, was conducted from February 20 to 27 at Misawa Air Base in Japan's northern Aomori prefecture during the Bomber Task Force 25-1 mission, involving B ...

According to The Aviationist, the bomber was spotted flying over ... could not confirm definitively it was the Edwards B-1, it appeared while refueling on a KC-135 which is not so common to ...

After the cancellation of a more ambitious B-1A bomber in the 1970s, the less expensive B-1B was procured in the 1980s to penetrate Soviet airspace at low altitude and deliver nuclear strikes.