well I took my M5 on the 'ring during touristenfarten. I was way more scared of what could happen there then when I am air refueling

no, not really. though a KC-10 will push you back down into position if you get too high.

on this one it was about 85,000lbs or 12,500 gallons or 47,300 litres!

I don't take offense because it is difficult to refuel us from the KC-135. We have a few things going against us. First we push the KC-135 with our bow wave as mentioned. Getting a contact is a challenge because the boom is right in front of us in our nose. This causes a lot of pilots to focus on it, and because…

It can be a challenge. when you are taking 80,000 - 100,000lbs of fuel it takes time. sometimes you have to fly this close for 20 minutes straight or more, through weather, at night, with little light. I'd post a video of that, but frankly that camera really cant capture anything.
Navy planes, and some coalition…

The B-1 has spoilers and a rolling tail. The spoilers pop on the wing that you want to roll in the direction of... this reduces lift on that side (or creates a downforce, much like a sportscar spoiler) so the wing "falls" and the plane begins to roll. Additionally, when the wings are aft and at high speeds, the tail…

that's just like your opinion, man.

when was this? I've never heard of such a thing. Any pics or something to substantiate this?

As with most planes capable of supersonic flight, not too often because of the high fuel demands of afterburner. But if we need to get somewhere fast, say if people in the ground are under fire and need our help, we will dash as required.

we air refuel in turns all day long... usually around 15 degrees angle of bank to maximize lift, but sometimes at 30-45 degrees if airspace is tight.

of course, B-1s don't have ailerons, so...
Rolls are used often to kill lift vector or to clear underneath us.

Closest they've come to an actual bomb run the past 3 years....

I want to fly through that.... researching why we havent now

no worries.. most civilians don't realize these numbers; heck many General Officers don't... we don't have the best track record of advertising this type of data because historical numbers play second fiddle to funding of future aircraft or current costs per flying hour to make current budgets. In the news right now…

hasn't gotten out to play much? You know its the most used combat aircraft by far since the 1998 date you threw out right? In Kosovo, 25% of the weapons dropped while flying 1% of the missions. In Iraq, 7 B-1s struck more targets than all 3 carrier battle groups combined, and dropped 43% of her precision guided…

how about the view the other way....

All three B-1 combat squadrons still have Sq. vehicles — The FatCat, The Felon, and The Batmobile, so this isn't a thing of the past. I think the T-Birds even have a bus... I'm sure someone has some pics they could post...

He also seems to forget what it took to bring the F-16A into its modern-day variant. Anyways, good post. Probably too much accurate information for the average Gizmodo reader to digest.

The B1 has been barely used? Guess you didn't know it flown nonstop combat for the last 12 years, and dropped more weapons than any other aircraft the DOD makes in Afghanistan Iraq Libya etc.

except, he's 100% right... I guess if you don't want the truth data getting in the way of conspiracy theories and pitchfork lighting, then let's block him. If you read all of his posts, its clear to me, as a pilot, that agmakk knows a fair bit about ARTC and ATC.