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From its conception in the late 1960s, the B-1B bomber has been a child of controversy. A breathtakingly beautiful airplane with slim-silhouette wings that meld into a fuselage that breathes speed, the swanlike aircraft is designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses, unleashing nuclear-tipped missiles at targets deep inside the country. But skeptics lampooned the B-1B -- at $283 million a copy the most expensive plane in aviation history -- as an unnecessary and probably unworkable interim successor to the aging B-52s, and in 1977 President Jimmy Carter scuttled the project. Newly elected Ronald Reagan revived...
Pentagon officials insist that is not the case. Says Air Force General Lawrence Skantze: "The B-1B is the best, most capable bomber in the world today." Claims Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger: "The plane will do what it's supposed to do." Nevertheless, Assistant Air Force Secretary Thomas Cooper told Congress, "We have to be aware of the limitations in the B-1B right now and plan accordingly." The Air Force is also withholding almost $300 million from contractors for poor performance. Last week, tucked away in the Defense Department's 1988 budget proposal was the Air Force's most...
...rush to deploy the B-1B, the Air Force went into production while the aircraft was still undergoing major design modifications. Even before the first bombers became operational last fall at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, there were portents of trouble. The plane's fuel tanks, built directly into the wings without rubber bladders, leak jet fuel. Early flight tests revealed problems caused by loading cruise missile launchers and antiradiation pods onto the original airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading...
...Rockwell International's weapons systems. But critics are outraged that the photos are classic works by the late Ansel Adams, an ardent environmentalist who opposed the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In one of the ads, which have appeared in leading aerospace trade journals, Rockwell declared that its B-1B bomber was an "American asset" like the Sierra Nevada...
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