That is one thing you don’t see too usually.

The clip on this put up was shot earlier right now at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, that’s at present 4 B-1B Lancer bombers belonging to the seventh Bomb Wing, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, as a part of BTF 23-3, the primary Bomber Process Drive deployment for the British airbase of 2023.

Flying as SPICY 41 and SPICY 42, two B-1B bombers (registration 86-0103 and 86-0105), have been launching for a routine theatre mission on June 1, 2023. After SPICY 41 had departed, SPICY 42 began its take off roll however skilled an unknown problem and aborted the departure. The bizarre occasion was filmed by our good friend @Saint1Mil within the video beneath.

On the 1:20 mark you possibly can see the second Lancer beginning its take off roll in full afterburner however 10 seconds later the throttles are pulled to idle and the heavy bomber begins decelerating making additionally use of the wing spoilers.

SPICY 42 fastened the problem that brought on the aborted take off and was finally capable of depart about 1 hour later.



The BONEs (from B-One) have launched their first BTF mission on Could 30, 2023, when two B-1Bs carried out a flyby over Sarajevo, in what has been known as an indication of the sturdy partnership between the US and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSBiH) and their continued dedication to sovereignty territorial integrity and multi-ethnic character of BiH.

The mission was moderately symbolic because it got here amid rising tensions within the Balkans over the weekend as protests between the Serbian minority of northern Kosovo and ethnic Albanians. On the day earlier than, on Could 29, throughout the protests towards the set up of Kosovar-Albanian mayors within the cities of Mitrovica Nord, Zvecan, Zubin Potok, and Leposavic, 14 Italian navy personnel of KFOR (Kosovo Drive), that intervened as an interposition power between the Kosovo-Serbian inhabitants and the Kosovo Police, have been injured. Nonetheless, the B-1 mission was not a “present of power” following the incident, as U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa Public Affairs had announced it on Could 26, 2023.

David Cenciotti is a journalist based mostly in Rome, Italy. He’s the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of many world’s most well-known and browse navy aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for main worldwide magazines, together with Air Forces Month-to-month, Fight Plane, and plenty of others, protecting aviation, protection, battle, trade, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown a number of fight planes with completely different air forces. He’s a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Drive, a personal pilot and a graduate in Pc Engineering. He has written 5 books and contributed to many extra ones.