Hot on the heels of Osprey’s B-1B Lancer Units in Combat comes the latest Daco publication in their excellent “uncovering” series. This volume is the second by Willy Peeters and covers in fantastic detail the B-1B Lancer. For those who have other Daco “uncovering” volumes such as the F-16 and F/A-18 volumes there should be no surprises what you will get here.

In 84 full colour glossy pages the reader is taken on a complete tour of the B-1B airframe from nose to tail and into the cockpit and weapons bay. Laid out in logical sequence the level of coverage of a very sensitive aircraft type is almost unprecedented. I know that we could never take our cameras into the cockpit of the B-1s operating with my old unit out of Amberley, yet here are some close-up shots of the flight station in all its glory. The action shot of a B-1 about to plug with a KC-10 taken from the co-pilots perspective has to be seen to be believed.