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Source: NYT

9-8-16

Sam Iacobellis, Whose B-1 Bomber Recast the Cold War, Dies at 87

Sam Iacobellis, an engineer whose development and lightning delivery of 100 B-1 supersonic stealth bombers to President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s was credited with speeding the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Saturday.

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Sam Iacobellis, Whose B-1 Bomber Recast the Cold War, Dies at 87