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‘Because I Was Inverted!’ We Talked With The B-1B Test Pilot Who Flew The Awesome Roll at Edwards AFB

November 5, 2022 Airshows, Military Aviation

TOM DEMERLY

A B-1B Lancer made a sensation two weeks ago at Edwards AFB with this complete roll. (All images credit: Tom Demerly/TheAviationist)

It Was a Moment We’ll Talk About for Years, And We Met the Pilot Who Flew It.

Aviation fans around the world were thrilled two weeks ago when video from a flight demonstration – that included a complete roll – of the B-1B Lancer at Edwards AFB went viral across social media. But who was the pilot who actually rolled that giant 238-ton bomber completely inverted? TheAviationist caught up with him at Nellis AFB after his impressive display flight at Edwards AFB.

“It’s pretty cool! It’s a 200,000-pound aircraft empty. We can hold up to, about, 180,000-pounds of gas. It’s pretty weird to take an… almost 400,000-pound aircraft upside down. But, it does it really well with its twisting tail, so that helps it roll- pretty responsive, and it does a good job,” Bryan Balkenbush of the 419th Flight Test Squadron told us at Nellis AFB on Friday, November 4, 2022 during the Aviation Nation airshow outside Las Vegas.