Air Force: B-1B Avionics

 

Side view if a B-1B at sunset under full afterburner.

 

I worked at Ellsworth AFB during the end of the cold war and during the first Persian Gulf War.  It was an interesting time, with tremendously powerful nuclear weapons that thankfully were never used.

 

Poking my head out of a KC-135 Refueler.

In the cockpit of a B-1B

About to have my head blown off.

Getting in an F-111.

Working on the forward looking phased array of a B-1B.