Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Bomber Just Completed a 180-Day Test Campaign in 73 Days: Operational Pilots Are Now Flying It

Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Bomber Just Completed a 180-Day Test Campaign in 73 Days: Operational Pilots Are Now Flying It

B-21 Raider: Aerospace Miracle – On June 11, the Air Force announced something bomber programs almost never advertise this early: an operational test pilot had flown the B-21 Raider, seated beside a graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School, years before the aircraft reaches a combat wing. The point, said Lt. Col. Matthew Gray, who directs the Raider Combined Test Force, is to start judging the jet now — to “evaluate the bomber’s true combat u…