These photos were taken by Steve Bamford, Jim Deshiro, Everett McEwan and Kevin Wheeler.

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This is a B-1a prototype used in the B-1b program, it is the number 4 aircraft
used as a ground loading trainer at Lowery before Lowery closed

The 4 photos directly below were taken by Everett McEwan. 

Bombbay	crew boarding ladder	nose gear bay	nose gear bay

The 2 photos directly below were taken by Kevin Wheeler.

Nose art	Nose gear

The 3 photos directly below were taken by Jim Deshiro.

Bomb bay	Bomb bay	Bomb bay

Photos taken at Abbotsford International Airshow August '99

The 35 photos directly below were taken by Steve Bamford

engine exhaust on outer engine on left wing as seen from left side of plane	left side of left main landing gear as seen from left side	wing joint area behind left wing as seen from left side	tail as seen from left side

 

navigation light at front of left wing root joint as seen from the left side	nose gear area on fuselage as seen from front side of nose gear	nose gear as seen from front side of nose gear	main landing gear as seen from front left side of plane

 

nose gear as seen from left rear area of plane, note the crew access ladder	close-up of nose gear as seen from left side	close-up of nose area….notice name of plane…."Home Improvement"…gotta’ love dark humour ;-)	close-up of area behind nose and before wings as seen from left side of plane

 

close-up of wing root area as seen from left side of plane	close-up of left side of tail area as seen from left side of plane	close-up of left main landing gear as seen from the front of landing gear	close-up of left main landing gear as seen from the front left side of landing gear

 

close-up of left main landing gear struts as seen from the front left of landing gear	close-up of right and left main landing gear struts as seen from the front left of landing gear	wing joint area behind left wing as seen from left rear side of plane	two left engines as seen from the rear…pictures like this are what AMS is all about!!!

 

left main landing gear as seen from the rear	two right engines as seen from the left rear	tail as seen from right rear….the sheet metal pieces sticking out from the fuselage tail area are vortex generators...They guide the air around that lower portion of the vertical stab in order to smooth air flow around it. …these were painted the same colour of plane	navigation light at tip of right wing…this light appeared clear blue to me

 

navigation light at front side of right wing root….this light appeared clear blue to me	close-up of nose area as seen from right side	close-up of area behind nose area as seen from right side	nose landing area as seen from right side

 

nose gear as seen from front left side	close-up of right main landing gear strut….combine this picture with photo on right for full picture	close-up of right main landing …..combine this picture to left  for full picture… I waited 30 minutes for this guy to move….then a plane next to the B-1 fired up it engines and due to boredom I turned for one sec to look at that plane and as I glanced back I noticed this guy had moved to grab his ear protectors and I missed the clear shot!!!  AAARRRRGGGHHH…finally I gave up and took the picture.	close-up of right main landing gear ….this was taken shortly after photo to the left…notice the guy walking away from the landing gear is the same guy in photo to left GGGGGRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

 

close-up of right main landing …..this is same picture as picture above to the right except that guy has left!!!	close-up of left main landing gear struts as seen from the front left of landing gear	close-up of "nose gear well" as seen from left rear of nose gear and looking up and forward