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A B2 just flew over my house
Topic Started: May 17 2008, 12:05 PM (278 Views)
Copper
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I was just out back spreading 50 bags of mulch and comtemplating how much fun it would be if I was the guy who wrote the dictionary.

Anyway, I heard an unusual engine sound. I looked up and there was a B2 slowly passing over at about 3-4,000 feet, an unusual sight around here.

What a beautiful machine. A bargain at $2B.

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Mikhailoh
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I saw one fly at the Cleveland Air Show a few years ago. That is not an airprlane, but a spaceship. Absolutely silent and when it turns sideways it disappears. If I were an enemy and saw one of those headed my way I would hightail it at great velocity. Not that it would help.

It'd be hard to run with the load in my pants.
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jon-nyc
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Heading east, I assume? Towards Iran?
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Hard to imagine that this thing costs about the same as an airplane carrier.
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1hp
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Wait.......you could see it? Thought it was supposed to be stealthy.......I want my money back! :lol:

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Copper
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I found the schedule for the Andrews Air Force Base air show.

It looks like that was the reason for the B2. A B2 fly-by was scheduled for just after I saw it. Andrews is about 25 miles east of here.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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1hp
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Oh...an air show....that explains it. They probably had the cloaking device disabled.

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It's cool the way they dress that plane up in denim...no wonder the plane isn't detected...
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
kluurs
May 17 2008, 03:47 PM
It's cool the way they dress that plane up in denim...no wonder the plane isn't detected...

:lol2: Yes, that's what it looks like! It's a trendy B2.
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Copper
May 17 2008, 06:22 PM
I found the schedule for the Andrews Air Force Base air show.

It looks like that was the reason for the B2. A B2 fly-by was scheduled for just after I saw it. Andrews is about 25 miles east of here.

Yep I was there today! :wave:

Took lots of pics, and lots of vids.

The B-2 was cool to see.

Not as cool as the F-22 Raptor. I kid you not, there has NEVER been a better airplane.

I'll upload pics and vids later...
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Daniel
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mikhailoh
May 17 2008, 12:15 PM


It'd be hard to run with the load in my pants.

Ok, that's an image I could have lived without.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Copper how did you manage to snap that picture of the B2's top side?
Was it flying up-side-down over your yard?
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Axtremus
May 18 2008, 07:10 AM
Copper how did you manage to snap that picture of the B2's top side?
What is flying up-side-down over your yard?

:lol:


Klaus,

I think you're a bit behind in your cost estimates. An aircraft carrier is going for about 13 billion these days. :hair: We make 'em just up the road from me at the Newport News shipyard.

Cost is a funny thing. You never know quite what it means when they say 2 billion per plane. A lot of that is R&D being spread over a very small number of units. Some of that cost is probably a form of subsidy to the firms to keep them 'in being' since it is far more costly to try to pull that talent and knowledge together when needed than it is simply to maintain it in place.
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Love them. A little flock of them scared the you-know-what out of us at an airshow in Topeka a while back. They were nowhere, then they were RIGHT THERE. SO cool.
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1hp
May 17 2008, 02:27 PM
Oh...an air show....that explains it. They probably had the cloaking device disabled.

It's true, they can't cloak and fire at the same time.

<Insert Klingon image here.>

Cool to see, btw! I saw one at an airshow meself once. Just made two quick passes but it was still pretty amazing.
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