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B1 Lancer Bomber

The B-1 was conceived as the Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (AMSA) program circa 1965. After a prolonged development period, the contract was awarded in 1970 to Rockwell International. The first of four prototype B-1A models flew on December 23 1974. Intended as a high-speed, long-range bomber capable of a supersonic low-level dash and Mach 2.5 at altitude, the B-1A never went into production. The program was cancelled by decision of President Jimmy Carter in 1977, although flight tests of the four B-1A models continued through 1981.

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One of these aircraft is now at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska (moved there after having been on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton, Ohio for many years), another at Wings Over the Rockies, in Denver, Colorado, and one was converted for use in the B-1B program, then crashed during flight testing on August 29, 1984.

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