<hi style=afpcap>Wings swept forward, a Rockwell B-1B Lancer prowls the skies on a training mission. The former North American company built 100 B-1B bombers for the Air Force in the late 1980s. The tiny canard wings on the nose are for stability, and the painted white lines are used to mark the air refueling receptacle, to enable a tanker's boom operator to "plug in."</hi>