That’s what the Americans thought when they found the Horten Ho 229 back in 1945 Germany and captured it, which they used as the basis for the B2. America got lucky grabbing all that German tech and scientists. The B2 still does look amazing
I worked on the development of that plane back in the 80’s and attended 1st flight in 1989. It was an incredible feeling to see it take to the air after years of work.
@@itstheMR Jim Kelly. He designed that Delta Wing thing back in the 50s. Wasn't really the 'original', but was yet another Lockheed Skunk Works project many decades ahead of its time.
The view when it was right overhead, it just looks like a pixelated triangle - almost like a glitch in the sky. Imagine being an enemy seeing this for the first time
A few months before it was revealed to the public, I was sitting in my front yard in rural Kansas. It was night time. I heard the sound of a low-flying jet, but didn't see any lights. However, a short time later I saw a triangular-shaped object flyover the house. The only reason I knew it was triangular is that it blotted out the stars above. My first thought was that I saw a UFO, but I figured it was probably secret military technology. A few months later, I saw a magazine article (I think it was in Popular Science) showing the first pictures of the B-2 Bomber and I felt pretty sure that is what I saw fly over my home.
Nope. That’s a lot of the modern military planes. Had some F18s go overhead at a ballgame. You don’t hear them until it’s too late. I pity the fool who has to sit under those in a hostile engagement. If you hear them, the payload has already been released. Scary.
@@danielcannon3511 так, это вы в сказки о невидимке верите. А факт остаётся фактом. F-117, который был не менее невидим, чем B-2, сбит в Югославии советским комплексом С-125. Это официально подтвержденная информация, а не пропаганда.
I love how the pilot slowed down and flew directly over the beach so people could see that bird for a few brief moments. Very classy move by the pilot.
@@JK-td4hi That is unlikely. The B-21, which looks very much like the B-2, likely costs more if only because it is much newer, inflation, and has new, more expensive avionics aboard. And what of the even more exotic aircraft we know nothing about? The Skunk Works is always producing something few ever get to see or hear about.
I agree. I live on the Eastern area of Colorado Springs, when Air Force planes are coming into Petersen AFB on the south end of town, they will go out of their way to go fly low over the USAF Academy on the Northwest corner of the city. Makes sense to me to bring up morale of the future USAF officers.
My grandmother and her friend were at a lawn sale when a seagull dropped a bomb on my grandmother's hair my grandmother cusses her friend says ''oh no that's good luck''
Actually, the maddening thing is... some people were NOT staring in awe/respect. It's just a handful, but there they are, somehow interested in other things while this GIANT stealth bomber flies over them.
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm I was going to say, because considering the enormous chunk of sky it takes up it seems the least visually stealthy plane I've ever seen.
They did a flyover in one of these for the Indy 500 years ago--cloudy day. I looked up and to the left from the stands and this thing was coming out of the clouds like the ship from "Independence Day." Dead silent, until it was right on top of you. Such an incredible achievement. Thank you, Mr Northrop.
@@RoadSparrow The 500 is this little race in Indianapolis. Used to be a really big deal. Biggest sporting event on earth. Then someone decided "Nah, we don't need all those CART drivers people actually recognize" and everything changed. Clawing its way back, but has a lot of strong competition--especially F1. Which also used to race there.
I'm old enough to remember Vulcan bombers flying from the local RAF base, this B2 is the 40-years-later jaw-dropping technical equivalent. Must have been an amazing moment to have been out at the beach and see this sci-fi-looking beauty cruise by.
@@hertzwave8001 One is young, blind, and naive. The other is wise, sees ingenuity, potential, freedom, nationality, individuality, family, positivity, etc...
@@627horsepowersAmerica was actually recently listed as a backsliding democracy. Some of the things you say are slight exaggerations. We are not the freest nation on earth and we lost many freedoms due to the patriot act. European countries are generally less corrupt and provide more freedoms. They’re also far less crime riddled and the U.S. is by far the most violent developed democracy in the western world. You’re talking about a country where a school shooter can kill 50 people and it doesn’t even make headline news for more than 24 hours. We have a lot of problems and we can’t fix them when people are blindly allegiant to the status quo. America is the world’s hegemony, but it’s not the greatest by any means.
I remember when a B-2 came into VA Beach right over our house for the air show. Similar to this, you can't hear the jet coming, near silent, as it approached. Only after passing do you hear the engines due to it's unique propulsion design. Glad they’re on our side!
@@userbosco as Mark Twain said "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled" but I will agree that there's no god - for God's sake is a turn of phrase it's more polite than - for fu*ks sake
@@userbosco as Mark Twain said "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled" but I agree that there's no god, it's just a turn of phrase that's more polite than for f**ks sake, this is my second attempt at posting a reply, last one was deleted
Altitude of up to 50,000 ft. Cities could be leveled without anyone knowing what hit them. A magnificent,terrifyingly beautiful, and wonderously engineered vessel of death and destruction.
For countless millennia humans had dreamt of being able to fly by any means and to think the B2 flew for the first time in 1989, just 86 years after the first manned flight by the wright brothers in 1903. Thousands of years with nothing and then to this in 86 years. It’s a testament to what humans can achieve when we work together with a common aim despite what this was built to do.
I was working in my yard and heard a strange sound in the distance. I lived in Phoenix at the time and the ball team was in the World Series I believe. A B-2 came right at me at about the same altitude as this one and flew right over my head. I could see faint writing on panels it was so close. It went on past and was heading for the stadium for a fly-by. I'll never forget as it passed me, (watch above), turned towards the ballpark, and I swear it disappeared. It had turned and I was seeing it from behind and its profile is so slim, I visually lost it. It was just a few miles away from me, too. Watch above towards the end and you see the same thing. It's incredible design technology.
A cop pulls out his radar gun as the B2 passes along the boardwalk "Hey Ralph, what did you clock him at? How fast?" "I dunno John, I didn't really get a reading off it"
This plane is simply amazing. You can be looking at it from a short distance. Then when it turns you can lose site of it. Cause it's design and thin profile makes it stealthy. This is a awesome aircraft !!
Memories. I flew F4 phantom’s over that beach several times. Low level. Got lots of waves from beach goers. You would be amazed at the huge numbers of sharks less than a mile from the beach.
@@Dr.Pepperdave Land on a carrier? Why would a bomber need a carrier? Stealth bomber has very very long range without one. In fact, in 2024, I can make the case carrier task forces have become obsolete.
@@2023Red If you had robots operating the equipment and your budget was endless you could most likely extend the range of fighter forces for quite a bit through in air refuels. But in a real scenario, carrier task forces are definitely not obsolete. Other than range, they provide a refuel/rearming station where pilots can be rotated and rested. At the same time they can also allow for more extensive planning than having to plan from long distances or relying on short orders from forward AWACS. Response time decreases dramatically while not needing an FOB on foreign or enemy territory. Carrier task forces also are effective through provoking or intimidating by presence alone. At the same time the US having operating bases in allied countries could cover enough ground to negate that, but planning large operations on (even though allied) foreign ground is always iffy since you don't want to sour relations to those allies.
@@BMAD_Christoph27 I agree with comments. Any FOB has limitations. Carrier groups are very powerful indeed. My obsolescence comment is forward looking not in the present. Space based weapons are coming by every first world nation and possibly exist now. Imagine LEO low yield nukes over strategic ocean locations like the Dardanelles. Or Gibraltar. Or even San Diego sub pens. Heck, even just south of Savannah Georgia. It would not take much time to launch from orbit to cover 500 km distance to target. Minutes at most. Those attacks could render a dozen carrier groups dead in the water before some admiral finishes his cup of Joe. Missiles and bombers are our offensive weapons not carriers. Now adding robotic subs and drones by the hundreds deep in the South China Sea and you have dead naval ships everywhere. In my opinion.
We get the dive bomber versions here on the Sussex South Coast. Adept at relieving unwary visitors of either ice-creams or other frozen treats without warning or even a simple "may I have a lick?" Wonderful display of nature's technology.
Every guy in the world is legally obligated to stop and watch a B2 fly over. I imagine lots of women also feel that way but it’s a universal law for men
Even to this day the profile or lack there of is amazing. Great video and seeing how the beach crowd became more and more captivated by the approaching B2
I got to see this certified spaceship in person when my grandpa took me to the '05 Indianapolis airshow. The futuristic vibes from this plane will never not bring out the kid in me 🔥🔥🔥
Now follow that up with a pair of A10’s! Living close to Whiteman AFB were blessed to see the B2s on a regular basis, God bless the airmen and crew that keeps them flying.
Jaw dropping: from a sliver in the distance, becomes a visitor from another world overhead, then vanishes without trying. The grandson of the SR71 (still the most beautiful, badass aircraft ever) shows its lineage well. GBA🇺🇲
Love that jet noise as it flies over - ‘Immmm woooooorrrrrthhhhhh thhhhhhhhiiiirrrrrrteeeeeeeen biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliiiiiiiooooooonnnn dooooooooollllllllllllllllaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrssssss’
That was actually a recruiting for the Air Force idea. Trust me, it works for the army as well. The first time I saw a Blackhawk helicopter Fly over the top of our high school I knew that’s what I wanted to do. Of course I ended up being a 19 Kilo. 1 year later I’m in Iraq.
In the 1964 movie *Dr. Strangelove" Major T.J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) says, "Well, boys, I reckon this is it.. nuclear combat.. toe to toe with the Roosskies"..He would have loved to have been flying this amazing "WMD".
Seeing this thing in black like this makes you appreciate how utterly terrifying it would be to be on the ground with this thing unleashing its payload in anger during the night.
Saw one once, flew over Soldiers Field in Chicago in honor of Veterans it did a fly over the stadium and then silently disappearing over Lake Michigan , a powerful and frightening piece of engineering.
This reminds me of the time I spent on a roofing crew putting a new roof on the JC Penney in Melbourne, Florida. Jets would fly over in formation practicing bombing runs. They would come screaming in ... cut the boosters and go practically silent for about 30 seconds ... then kick in the afterburners and haul ass out. It never stopped being just about the coolest damn thing ever.
@@Noorthia I don't know, I haven't tried it and never thought of trying it until now LOL How does it work to test exactly? But you can clearly see and hear the "stealth" bomber in the video, the stealth bomber is probably used only for blind and deaf targets.
Anti military people really piss me off. For all you non military folk....listen up....if it was for the US Military, your asses wouldn't be free. We fought, lost friends in battle, went through hell and back to provide you that freedom....so next time you see a veteran, shut the hell up and thank him/her for their service....
@@stormyone My father (retired USAF pilot) and I both worked at the B-2 Division. When he retired from Northrop in 1989, he got to spend 1 hour in the full motion B-2 simulator. He graciously let me have 10 minutes at the controls. Amazing aircraft!
The thumbnail of the bird flying over the beach had me thinking - “yeah, that’s ALSO a stealth bomber: it can drop poop on without you knowing it was up there!”
I was thinking that the Soviet Union also did flyovers for their people. But look around, Americans don't see this as a symbol of the supreme authority of government but instead are like "holy shit, that's an awesome airplane!" "We built that? Incredible." Democracy is non-negotiable.
Imagine how much good can be accomplished with the funding just one of these things costs us all. Our "democracy" is only a front for the massive spending on death machines over basic universal needs we could have instead.
@@akaviral5476 Straw man. There is and has never been a situation where a politician had to choose either a bomber or healthcare. America has shitty healthcare because we refuse to fix not because we have a strong military.
@@CausticLemons7 The amount of money the US healthcare system makes, it should be the best in the world, instead it's profiteering and denied insurance claims.
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…” - Winston Churchill.
