@@marshamoore8385 It wouldn’t have afterburners. Burns too much fuel. The B-2s thing is to go high, go far, and do so without being detected. It’s already capable of high subsonic speeds. Afterburners aren’t really necessary unless it wants to go supersonic, which is pointless for its mission.
I didn't say anything about speed...The B-2 is not about speed. It's about the engineering and technology. You'd never know that outdated piece of sheet metal was coming or directly overhead until it was too late.
I wish that my father was still alive to watch this video. He was on the engineering team involved in design and eventually did some post incident investigations at Edwards AFB during the test phases. He was quite proud of his part in creating this airplane.... Almost as much as the pride he felt working on the control systems of the A10.
You think America is bombing the shit out of sovereign nations on behalf of the American people and in the name of freedom? Libya and Syria exposed the true colours of this international order, siding with and assisting the absolute worst of extremists, in the pursuit of regime change. Be proud of your nation and your people and your forces personel, but the 'US' military machine agenda is nothing ot be proud of.
When they first had it at an airshow in Fort Lauderdale,they parked it at Ft.Lauderdale International and allowed the public close access to it. The size alone was intimidating,you could stand under this craft and still not be able to reach the bottom of it. It's a huge black bat of badness I'll never forget being that close to it,and when it flew by us at the show,everybody on the beach got silent watching it come. It's hard to Guage it's size until it's on you and then it's just indescribable seeing it right there going by. The crowd went just crazy when it passed by,it just looks like it isn't possible that what we were seeing was real kind of feeling,and true WTF,THAT'S AWESOME!
About six years ago I was sky watching one night and I saw an aircraft approaching from a distance. It had 3 lights position in the shape of a triangle as it passed over head it didn't make a sound. This aircraft has some abilities that are advanced. Shalom
NikkkitoNippongo Employing local residence and local students on apprentice programmes, ensuring the next generation not only benefit but provide future resources and tax dollars? Or just luring other people from around the US to move there and overpower your economy? Just a thought.
NikkkitoNippongo This technology marvel is made in my hometown of Palmdale/Lancaster, California, USA....VERY PROUD! ' B-2 was flying over the rose parade in pasadena before
Saw one of these fly over the Indy 500 starting ceremonies about 10 years ago. It was the craziest thing ever. Just a silent line in the sky, then she quietly slipped over us and banked high to the side at full throttle rocking the grand stands and the 250,000 people in them. 2nd best fly over I've ever seen. #USA
@@marekgregory4512 Indy 2019, Casual fly over with f-16 and A10, looked low, slow and boring. After they passed over the stands and exited the area, the f-16 comes ripping back into the infield at a 90 degree to the front stretch at what had to be 500 agl, banked it hard and pulled enough g forces to pull condensation across the wings, before he got to the end of the front stretch he pointed it at the sky and burned the afterburner until at least 10k feet. If I were a General Dynamics investor, I'd have been sold.
@@joeyjamison5772 Alexander Haig and Ronald Reagan discussed _"passing on to Argentina British military details of the invasion of South Georgia"._ Your own Washington Post and Wall Street Journal will show you proof if you doubt it _"How the United States Almost Betrayed Britain in the Falklands War"._ And you Americans complain about Muslims betraying Britain?
Nice video STTW! What a progression by the pilot: DA-20 at PQ, the T-6A Texan II at Undergraduate Pilot Training, and then the T-38 at advanced (jet pipeline), and now the B-2- good work, sir! God Bless America! (and England for being our ally)
@Joe Kinchicken agree on the Horten part. They where first with this design. Von Braun's alternative was going with the Soviets to the Soviet Union. Can't blame him for choosing the US instead...
How poetic, thanks for the insiders view. You are never more than 70 miles from the sea, in Britain, when stood in the middle. But there's a hell of a lot of things to see.
The really interesting thing is that these planes are probably equivalent to what the Wright Brothers flew compared to what they have now. It sure would be fun to see what they have hidden in some hanger somewhere.
Good point. Through backward engineering and direct E. T. contact we already have craft that can take us to the stars. Problem is the E. T.s have us under quarantine because of humans' violent nature. Nuclear detonations can cause inter dimensional damage in time/space Dr. Steven Greer has pointed this out for decades.
Was stationed at Whiteman AFB from 1959 till 1962. We had B-47's then on which I was an Assistant Crew Chief. We pulled "reflex" at RAF Fairford also. The place does not look the same. Thanks
Awesome video thank you. I've lived next to Kirkland AFB in ABQ,NM across the pond and have seen and heard some interesting things my favorite was watching the base ground all air traffic due to a very large storm and watching an f/a 18 struggle to land due to turbulence. Our boys sure can fly
@@p1zd3c No, it did not. Jack Northrup had our first flying wing, the N-1M flying in 1940. You people need to get over your fake history admiration for German technology and learn actual history.
31K Thumbs Up + Mine! You're welcome! Thanks! 😊 Notes: This century and this millennium have only existed since 2001. So I'm more impressed that the technology predates those two time periods! 😎 (Year 2000 is the last year of Century 20 and Millennium 2! It gives each their names!) With all of that grass and the nearby woods, no wonder the birds feel free to live there despite the fumes and noise! Who does the mowing, if any? Do they check for wildlife homes first? They would want to be careful that the blades don't sling or fling anything at the expensive airplanes! Congratulations on having such an experience! 🎉🎊 I miss going to airshows, but I don't miss the heat.
Why is that everything that causes death, destruction and mayhem looks so awesome? It can be giant gunships like the Bismarck, a nuclear submarine, a B-2, a tank etc. These things fascinate me to no end.
Because no matter how intelligent we claim to be, no matter how much we evolve, at the heart of man is the innate desire for conflict and conquest. It is what has driven us to war, and also to the stars. These machines feed our most primal desires.
Basically both entire wings are giant fuel tanks. What's amazing is how the wings can hold all of that fuel and not snap off. Each wing holds roughly 84,000lbs of fuel...yet it doesn't snap while just sitting on the ground. In the air..the lift helps relieve some of the stress..but while turning or gaining altitude..those wings are holding all of that fuel..plus the weight of the center of the plane..plus the multiplier of G forces. Absolutely amazing engineering.
@@nick4819 Oh go fuck yourself, the A380 carries 200 times that fuel in its wings and banks better while carrying 600 passengers. Psss.. it also has a better climb rate... don't believe go check it.
@James Morgan ahhh yes the stealthy a380. That extra 100' wingspan on the a380 helps doesn't it? As well that it was designed for something completely opposite of the B2. I mean the wing of the A380 is thicker than the entire B2....1 wing is almost 3/4's the width of the B2. So please..help me figure out what we are arguing.
Back then in 70s and 80s I think this plane was top secret and was tested at area 51, not sure though. Was on some military channel I watch but it was a long time ago idk.
@@jamesmorgan403 No that's what you did. The rest of us understand that if you wanna get somewhere in life, get off your ass and go do it because buddy, government spending is not why you're stuck(if you are).
I can remember when the stealth was still in it's test phase and top secret, 60 minutes was the first to be granted a look at it but of course very little could be told to the public about it's functions other than it's speed and ability to evade radar. It wasn't until the gulf war that the world witnessed the destruction it was capable of.
Es un bello diseño de avión, inspirado en originales de la tecnología alemana, adelantada en tiempo a sus congéneres de años 40's - Que sensación será pilotear esta maravilla!
@@robbiejk9613 for a newbie like myself, what’s the typical age for one of these things. I love her fighters on particular but I know these things take years to engineer with a catastrophic budget
@@robbiejk9613 Not really. The XB-35 flew in the 40s with very similar dimensions. Technology of avionics had to catch up in order for this aircraft to function.
Was on a golf course in North. CA many years ago. Had just teed up the ball when I realized a great shadow was creeping over. Saw the face of my golfing partner who was standing about ten yds away facing me. His mouth was agape and he was transfixed on something up above. I looked up and flying rather low overhead was this magnificent yet ominous looking black machine, NO NOISE at all. It was an awesome sight. The B-2 must have been flying out of Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA.
@@rv_316 They "retired" it in the 80's, brought it back a year later for NASA to do some "high altitude testing", then found in the Middle East the satellites weren't able to replace it fully and put it back to work. Not sure what it's status is now. I can tell you for a fact they were still maintaining, modding, and flying it out of USAF Plant 42 as late as April 2001.
amazing that it can fly, looks unreal. what is even more mind blowing is that it was designed and built in the 80 and cost 1 billion dollars each. Imagine what he USAF has now 40 or so years later.
I remember being the son of a engineer in California back in 1980's . There were awesome things happening at places like JPL , Lockheed , Northrup and Rocketdyne . A lot of good jobs and a lot of good people . Elon musk bringing some of that excitement back .
Man, these things are So cool. My dad did 33 train the AF, a lot of it flying B47s with the 509th and if he was still here he would be so proud of what we field these days
Don't try to act smart when you have no idea...Delta wings have elevons because the elevators and ailerons are combined. Hence they are called elevons.
Designed to be stealthy from an RF, acoustic, and thermal perspective. Despite being built in the 70s, they really did consider everything in the design.
There was one that did a flyby at EAA about four years ago. (I had forgotten that it was going to be here.) I was out at my parents house south of the runway on it's first pass. I heard it go by so I ran around the garage (as I always do that time of year) only to see a giant.....squid!? I caught my first sight at a rear three quarter view while it was banking and it took a full five seconds before my brain caught up and I realized what I was seeing because it looked so alien from the angle I was viewing it at. (A flying squid was the first thing my brain told me I was seeing). So, yeah I have to agree!
warfossil Nazi didn't have a "Flying Wing" aircraft in WW2? Is THAT your answer? As YOU are WRONG. Seen it. Horton Ho-2 that was in 1935, by 1945 had advanced versions with Jets/Rockets, hate ppl who say I'm wrong, when THEY are WRONG! Idiots!
It's because we're listening to it through a recording of a civilian receiver that picked up the communication. For the tower and the planes it is more clear.
@@joostdriesens3984 In this instance, the civilian equipment aside, the sound seemed roughly typical of all such recorded conversations I've ever heard including a few made inside the cockpits of front-line jet fighters and one chap who made his own cockpit video inside a passenger jet. I can't reasonably argue (or readily accept) that it somehow all magically sounds less squawky in the earpieces of the two principals when there's so commonly requests to correct and re-confirm instructions from both ends. These incidents are the very reason why I made this observation in the first place. FWIW, an up to date "civilian" piece of kit is probably a touch more likely to be of the latest quality than something installed by government tender into a control tower or by a manufacturer into a plane five to ten years before so I set that point aside from overly harsh analysis. It doesn't seem to matter *whose* equipment is used to pick up the transmission, it sounds like rubbish.
@@puirYorick I understand your explanation and you make some good points, but I'm still not entirely convinced. I think the recording is different compared with wearing the headset. I've been a passenger in small airplanes and a helicopter a few times wearing a headset and the sound was pretty clear. I have also watched a lot of ATC videos, which are basically the recordings of radio traffic and I'm always surprised by how well the pilots and ATC communicate and NOT have to correct a lot. Of course, how many corrections is 'few' or 'a lot' is somewhat a case of opinion. Whatever the quality, I'm am surprised, like you, that by modern day standards, it does not seem possible or convenient to transmit higher quality voice sounds with all the voice frequencies intact, so you don't have that 'radio effect'
