  It has been shown that the relative stabilities of various superfluid states
of 3He can be influenced by anisotropy in a silica aerogel framework. We
prepared a suite of aerogel samples compressed up to 30% for which we performed
pulsed NMR on 3He imbibed within the aerogel. We identified A and B-phases and
determined their magnetic field-temperature phase diagrams as a function of
strain. From these results we infer that the B-phase is distorted by negative
strain forming an anisotropic superfluid state more stable than the A-phase.
