B-21 Takes To The Sky For The First Time As Flight Testing Begins

Brian Everstine November 10, 2023

B-21 Raider first flight.

Credit: Matt Hartman
The U.S. Air Force’s next-generation bomber has flown for the first time. The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider took to the skies over the company’s Plant 42 facility in Palmdale, California, on Nov. 10—less than one year since its first public rollout. Videos of the flight circulating on social media...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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