"Alan Minyard" wrote in message


How in the world is a B-1B going to set *any* speed records?

Not absolute records. It already has a bunch in its weight class for speed
over particular courses, speed with certain payloads, etc. I expect the
plan to improve on those and add some more.

The B-1's current records are listed here, along with records by other
aircraft in the same general categories. I imagine they'll be trying to
take some away from the Tu-160.

http://www.b1b.wpafb.af.mil/pages/pdf/b1_records.pdf

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