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KUAM News has learned that a B-2 stealth bomber crashed at Andersen Air Force Base this morning. The incident happened at around 10:45am Saturday, as information we've gathered so far indicates that a lead B-2 aircraft took off and became safely airborne, but when minutes later a second bomber took off for reasons that are unknown at this point, that aircraft crashed.

Before I even opened the link, I said to myself: "There goes a billion dollars."

There's 3 plane crash threads and a plane that had trouble thread on the first page of this forum. Kinda scary.

Didn't one crash in like '96, which is the only reason they admitted that such a plane existed?

Says 2 pilots ejected...Hope they made it.

Cryomaniac wrote:Didn't one crash in like '96, which is the only reason they admitted that such a plane existed?

No this is the first B-2 lost.

x-y-no wrote:

Cryomaniac wrote:Didn't one crash in like '96, which is the only reason they admitted that such a plane existed?

No this is the first B-2 lost.

Yeah I think it was a stealth fighter that went down and thats when we found out about them...Probably explained alot of UFO sightings.

On another note I heard the pilots are OK.

x-y-no wrote:

Cryomaniac wrote:Didn't one crash in like '96, which is the only reason they admitted that such a plane existed?

No this is the first B-2 lost.

And the B-2 was publicly announced in 1988 at it's factory--several years before it became operational.

Cryomaniac wrote:Didn't one crash in like '96, which is the only reason they admitted that such a plane existed?

You might be thinking of the F-117.

RL3AO wrote:

Cryomaniac wrote:Didn't one crash in like '96, which is the only reason they admitted that such a plane existed?

You might be thinking of the F-117.

That may be possible, but even then, the F-117 was announced in 1988 after poor-resolution photographs surfaced--not a crash.

Crashed on take-off, I heard.

The B2 we have been reading about is an old Horton Ho design from the 40's LOL.

http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/go229_gotha.asp

Many of the German aerospace developments were brought to the US at the end of world war 2.

Nimbus wrote:The B2 we have been reading about is an old Horton Ho design from the 40's LOL.

http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/go229_gotha.asp

Many of the German aerospace developments were brought to the US at the end of world war 2.

The post war space race was a contest between Nazis who were in the USSR and Nazis who were in the USA. We had the better Nazis and we won.

Ernst Mach..... he named a special number.

Bruhn is the author of a book used by airframe engineers all over the world.

It is not an accident that Ohain developed the gas turbing engine (parallel, but not in cooperation with Whittle) in Germany. And, his books are still used as reference material today. The entire aerospace industry stands on the shoulders of German accomplishments.

Lucky for us Americans that we had better bombs than either Germany or Japan....MGC

I'm glad that the pilots are okay!

Has anyone ever seen one fly overhead? They are huge, intimidating and beautiful at the sametime.

MGC wrote:Lucky for us Americans that we had better bombs than either Germany or Japan....MGC

That is because their scientists purposely slowed their work. And many of our scientists were Jewish (and non-Jewish) refugees from Germany.

I have seen a B-2 at an airshow. It looks like a hole flying in the sky.

I'm amazed at how they glide and soar in the air - almost like a kite and hardly any noise!

That's where I've seen them too - at the annual Atlantic City airshow that's been held every August.

Stephanie wrote:I'm glad that the pilots are okay!

Has anyone ever seen one fly overhead? They are huge, intimidating and beautiful at the sametime.

I agree! Growing up about an hour away from Whiteman AFB (where the Spirit is based from), we would see these birds flying all the time. Air shows, football games, etc., they were always a key part. A Chiefs football experience isn't complete without "Home of the Chiefs" for the four final words of the Star Spangled Banner, coupled with a B-2 flyover.


Matter of fact, shortly after my wife immigrated to America, the local AFB was having an air show. In the days leading up to the show, you'd see aircraft flying in from their home base and/or up making a practice run. We had just got out of the car when my wife pointed up and said, "What the hell is that?!?!" I explained the aircraft to her. She sort of has a special fondness to the B-2 now.

Stephanie wrote:Has anyone ever seen one fly overhead? They are huge, intimidating and beautiful at the sametime.

I haven't, but seeing Eurofighter Typhoons fly over (I live near a few airbases) has that effect on me, so I don't know what a B2 would be like.

Cryomaniac wrote:

Stephanie wrote:Has anyone ever seen one fly overhead? They are huge, intimidating and beautiful at the sametime.

I haven't, but seeing Eurofighter Typhoons fly over (I live near a few airbases) has that effect on me, so I don't know what a B2 would be like.

You won't forget it, that's for sure. It really is an awesome sight to behold. You wouldn't think something that large could fly or glide the way it does.