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Forgiveness – Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on Crashing a $379 Million B-1 Prototype

One of the four original B-1As pressed into service as a test aircraft for the B-1B program flies with an F-111 chase aircraft near Edwards AFB, California. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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By the time Lieutenant General Richard Reynolds retired from the USAF in 2005, he’d had a distinguished 34-year career as a B-52 pilot, an Air Force test pilot with experience flying 72 different aircraft types, a B-2 system program office director, a commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, and more. If you walk into his home office you’ll find a letter opener made from a piece of molten aluminum. Etched...

PARDON THE INTERRUPTION

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