Bare Metal Bombers: B-1B & B-52H

Quick look at naked B-1Bs at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, on 29APR2020, U.S. Air Force video by Second Lieutenant Danny Rangel:

U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 14FEB2018.

Waiting for new clothes at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

18MAY2017, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.  Lightning strikes in the background, as a naked B-1B undergoes depot level maintenance.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 20JUN2017.

Post maintenance check flight.  Next is some new clothes.

Quick video explainer of what they do with B-1Bs at Tinker:

USAF photo by Kelly White, 29JAN2016.

Ghost Rider was saved from the Davis Monthan graveyard, sent to Tinker AFB for resurrection in December 2015.

This is actually the tall tail, removed for rebuild. USAF photo by Kelly White, 25MAR2016.

March 2016.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 25MAR2016.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 25MAR2016.

Somewhere in the bowels.

USAF photo by Mark Hybers.

Re-attaching the tail, July 2016.

USAF photo by Mark Hybers.

USAF photo by Mark Hybers.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

Ghost Rider naked, 29AUG2016, Tinker AFB.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

Run….faster!

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 21SEP2016.

New clothes.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

Reborn Ghost Rider, 22SEP2016.   It took 19 months to rebuild the 55 years old B-52H.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 27SEP2016.

It’s new home is with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, North Dakota.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 27SEP2016.

USAF photo by Senior Airman J.T. Armstrong, 08AUG2017.

Lightning welcomes Ghost Rider to its new home.

B-52H STRATOFORTRESS NOSE ART

VEHICLE ID: B-1, B-2 & B-52 NEW ‘INTEGRATED BOMBER FORCE’, B-B-B-BAAD TO THE BONE!

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