Aerial GoPro footage of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and T-38 Talon conducting a flyover during the 2024 Wings Over Whiteman Air Show at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., July 14, 2024. (Courtesy video) #usa #airforce #b2b
READ BEFORE COMMENTING: I rarely use the word 'Amazing' in my descriptions, but in this case, I thought it was fitting. Apparently so amazing that many people think it is fake or ai generated video, which it is NOT! I suggest that users read the full description of this video before posting ignorant comments about how fake the video is, or how the military would never allow this. We do this type of thing all the time for airshow flyovers. There is absolutely nothing fake about this video. And for those who don't know what a GoPro looks like and are saying there is not one, try looking in left hand at 0:34. Cell phone was brought out to use in right hand in addition. This footage is all from the GoPro! VIEW of FLYOVER from the GROUND: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s8eu9Q58nRQ.html
Even after being in service all these years the B-2 still looks like something from a Sci-Fi movie. And that T-38 is just plain sexy - one of the most beautiful jets ever made!
@@mark__whitfield Since it's designed around the idea of evading radar, and doesn't even have a vertical tail fin, a computer is making constant micro-adjustments to keep it in flight.
@@mediamagikgroup One thing I noticed was it can achieve a very steep bank angle at a low altitude for an aircraft thats designed predominantly to deflect radar rather than for the best aero form
@spitbull2237 all the b2 has in common with the horton ho229 or whatever model it was the Germans made was that they're both flying wings, that b2 is 3 aircraft generations past the Horton prototype and then some.
@@joshshannon But let's be honest, without the spoils of war that were taken out of Germany, the B2 would certainly not have been realistic in 1989. The Horton and others had provided certain ideas 😉
@@Ralf0815 Except the Horten plane never went into production. The only thing that plane and B-2 have in common is the rough shape. And the Horten was a terrible design, it had the pilot sitting jammed between the two jet engines, dooming him in the event of failure -which is exactly what happened on the test flight of the only prototype that flew. Engine caught fire, pilot burned, crash, done and over. B-2 is of course completely new technologies and design, there's no comparison.
@@RetiredLover If things continue in the direction of the last 20 years, 100 years from now will mostly just be brown people fighting and twerking on piles of burning trash.
This is the first time I've seen video of the B-2 in actual flight. It amazes me how this thing can even fly. It looks like it came from the future, and it still doesn't look like it belongs in this timeline nearly 30 years later.
It's how all aircraft formations look close up, with pilots constantly adjusting power, attitude, trim etc to keep station and maintain distance. The T-38 pilots had the trickier job.
@@Jackdaw5the b2 is the lead ship though, so they wouldn’t be as focused on station keeping as they would be on maintaining a standard rate of turn- I think corrections in bank angle are more due to natural instability of the jet
I believe that they are not so hard to fly/control because AI does all the heavy lifting in the control part. Without computer input, it falls from the sky, no matter the skill of the humans in the cockpit.
You would see this or the F-117 back in 1988 I would think I was looking at an alien craft. The nighthawk was in use around eight years before it was known to the public. I’m sure it was a massive ufo case.
This title is not misleading, really appreciate that as I wasn't actually expecting it to be this jaw dropping. This was goosebump and smiles inducing for me at least.
Man, I'm so obsessed with this beautiful machine. It looks so… alien and futuristic. The fact that it was made in the 80s just blows my mind. Imagine what they kept in secret now.
Nothing is secret now. The workforce has huge numbers of employees of Chinese decent that will feed all the details back to their motherland. Blood is thicker than water they say.
@@nachtaktiv1 Yeah, no. Just because they're both flying wings does not mean they are the same. I doubt the designers of the B-2 looked at the Ho-229 design sheet for more than an hour.
This is Spectacular, I just lost my Uncle Randy Barker one of the few apart of constructing this amazing bird. I had the opportunity to visit Lockheed and seen inside these buildings still activly supporting and maintaining these fleets. Bravo work he wuld be very proud. I just know it!
Super cool. I’m not a big plane guy, but happened to be driving through Chicago on a cross country trip on the day of the Chicago Air Show at Navy Pier and decided to swing a bit out of the way and check it out. Well, they showed off all kinds of cool planes, but then there was a lull in the action and people were just talking to one another going “what’s going on, why are there no planes? Is the show over?”. Suddenly you heard this big jet whoosh overhead and looked up to see the enormous silhouette of a B-2 flying directly over you at an incredibly low altitude just above the tallest building on the pier, all while flying incredibly, incredibly slowly. What was amazing to me was that you could not hear it AT ALL when it was coming and not 5 seconds after it passed the pier, it was barely audible. Anyway, the announcer spent a bunch of time talking about “acoustic stealth” tech on the B-2 and it totally blew my mind that I hadn’t even considered the concept of stealth tech being in the realm of acoustics. Man…. All I can say is that if you were the enemy, you wouldn’t have much time to figure out that a B-2 was directly overhead, much less that it had already released its payload…. Amazing stuff.
I read that it sends supersonic waves to the ground so that you can't hear it as it flies over you. Not sure I have that exactly right, but to not hear it like you experienced is wild.
Wow! Incredible footage you have taken. In 2021 I was given the opportunity to go to Whiteman Air Force Base and be given a tour of their base. This was when I was in ROTC at my collage. At the base we go to meet the Base commander and they showed us some videos and pictures of what they do and then before we left the main building they confiscated all of our electronics. No phones, cameras, key fobs, anything with a battery we had to put in the plastic bin. After that they took us on a bus and drove us out to the hangers and went into the Spirit of Washington hanger ( all B-2's are named the "spirit of ____" ). We had 2 pilots with us and they showed us around the plane and they even allowed us to sit inside the cockpit. Now with this video of showing the B-2 fly up close it is still one of my most favorite bombers in the US Air Force.
My family has the privilege of seeing the B2 fly pass every January 1 when they open the rose parade. The B2 will flyover our house to go back to their base. It’s an awesome sight and sound. A couple years ago they didn’t have the B2 but the B1, it’s still cool bust just not the same.
Impossible to tell if it's coming at you or flying away. You always get that with silhouette's, but the effect is really strong with this one. She's a beauty ! Loving this kind of footage.
Wow! I would have never believed it flexed that much....instantly all i thought of was a manta ray! This is what more youtube content should be, meaning Quality content all around. Great Post
Did you notice that the control surfaces were fluttering in opposite direction to the flexing? This necessity is why the thing is not controllable without computer assistance. Pilots simply can’t make that many adjustments that quickly.
@markdudley3831 possibly a trick of looking thru the 38s canopy, along with the burbles in the air....but to me it flexed like looking out over a wing on a standard airliner
I live near Camp Peary, Williamsburg VA. A military facility that nobody talks about . Always flying C-130, F-18’s,F-16’s,F-22’s Chinook, Black Hawks V-22 and one early cloudy night illuminated by the city’s light I saw this quiet silhouette of low flying B-2 going nearby. Scary and impressive view. I was in awe 😮🫥😱👍
I went to w&m and never heard of any military installation in Williamsburg (unless you consider lots of old people as military assets…). Just looked up Camp Peary - technically it’s in York County/near Williamsburg, but wow. Very cool, never would have thought “the farm” was right next door. Learn something new everyday!
i spotted a b2 in my rear view mirror once. it looked like a pencil line drawn in the sky. no clue how i keyed in on it but it was really cool to see. we opened the sunroof in time for it to go over us. one of the coolest sights.
Howard Hughes made some planes too! Government dragging him before them spruce goose it flew using materials available. Up there with the Wright Brothers. People that defy logic.
I had one of these fly past me whilst I was airborne, because I was flying in Southern England it really wasn't something I was expecting to see and as it was initially coming towards me it looked just like a crack on the canopy getting bigger, I had to keep looking to figure out what it was as it just looked so weird, then it turned and became clear it was B-2, this was about twenty years ago, weird sight to see air to air.
What an incredible feat of engineering.. can baely even see it from most angles.. seriously looks otherworldly in flight. Amazing footage indeed, Thanks!
Awesome video.....crazy that this concept was developed in the 40's. Now we really need to see the B1 (Bone) in flight. That aircraft looks like a doomsday machine, standing static on the ground it appears to be going supersonic.
The T-38's are rock steady throughout the run with their high wing loading compared to the B-2, which is displaying the exact opposite characteristics with its low wing loading at near empty weight. The notchy/ballooning turns it makes are amazingly mild considering it has virtually no stability surfaces and those being computer controlled. Reminds me of my first pattern work in a 152! Great vid!
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Jackson et al ) describes the B-2 as reportedly being agile with handling that is "fighter-like". I'd be curious to see this in real life and how well this statement bears up to scrutiny. It certainly seems less stable the the T-38s in the roll axis but it's hard to tell given the camera angles and distances and the inevitable turbulence so close to the ground.
@@LilMissMurder3409 Absolutely agree... there are so many variables... including many we'll never know like control feedback and response to input within the flight envelope that I almost didn't comment 😀I assume the pilot was hand flying it without any extra nannies due to the close formation and distance to civilians. It's nothing short of amazing that it's lower flight envelope even includes those maneuvers!
I've never seen one in flight like this. I can see why people would report witnessing UFOs or alien spacecrafts in the sky. It looks very much like something out of this world and not of this timeline. It's very cool as hell.
They just defy the brain to believe it can fly, yes wings and aero dynamics and all those wonderful computers and the fabulous engineers at Northrop that make it work , but seeing it up close like that and banking heavily it looks like it should just slide straight down to the ground. amazing piece of technology,
When I was in the F4 Phantom was called, "The Flying Rock" because if one of the two jets failed it not only had no glide characteristics but actually would "fall" TAIL FIRST! Can you imagine that? I watched it happen . . . It goes against everything you think about flight -
My wife and I saw one last month do 3 fly overs in Michigan where we live at an air show and I just stood there in awe. It’s the most beautiful plane I have ever seen.
@@Jasoos_Jasonda Radar signature means cross-section. When you take an angular 2D shape such as a triangle and rotate it so its XY plane is perpendicular to a radar (or even your eyes), the cross sectional area of that shape reduces more per angle than if that shape were a circle or a square. Of course, the B-2 Spirit also uses radar energy absorbing materials, but the shape is extremely important.
Damn. I had to do a triple take because I really thought this was cgi. The super trimmed landscape on top of the go pro's stabilization made this look like a next gen flight simulator. Absolutely amazing footage. Thank you for sharing.
To me it almost looked like it was struggling to stay in the air. I think these are inherently unstable and HAVE to be stabilized by computer. Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can chime in with something more coherent 😀
It looks so surreal. The peaceful landscape, the low altitude, the flexing wings and the crisp footage... No wonder the foilheads think it's fake. I was mesmerized :D
I think being on the gound at your home and suddenly you look up and see that illusive B2 flyby. That will be MADNESS :) Fugging AWESOME video and thank you for sharing for the world to see this beauty! 😁
funny you say that, I keep seeing the 'fake' comments. but this was a flyover for the airshow that was witnessed by literally thousands of people, so why would we even fake it. We had a combat camera guy in the backseat to get this footage, not a big deal. LOL
