 By June 1955, the 9th BW was ready for a mobility test.Early that month, bombers and crews spanned the continent and the Atlantic Ocean for a 60-day temporary duty assignment to a REFLEX base in England to test the wing's mobility training concept.In November 1955, the 9th Bomb Wing's B-47Es flew from MHAFB to New Zealand, a distance of , nonstop with the aid of aerial refueling.