US Air Force Crazy Process to Start $2 Billion Stealth Plane 

So, what was the crazy process to start the 2 billion dollar stealth plane?

Im so glad they talked about the "crazy process" of starting a $2Billion Stealth plane... absolutely mind boggling

Wow I never knew you had to change the worn out tires to start the B-2 Bomber.

8:59 "the absence of a tail reduces the aircraft's radar signature, while enhancing stability and control." Tailless aircraft actually are very unstable, and need constant adjustment from computers. 2:35 "the B-2's spirits insane design ... renders it invisible to the radar" The B-2 is not invisible to radar. Lower frequency radar can find their rough position, but not locate the exact location of the plane.

This is the crazy process of not explaining the cray process of starting a B-2. Thanks for 10 mins of my life I can't get back. Im going to workout to gain 5 mins back now.

I found really crazy that it uses fly by wire and "incredible trust that propels the aircraft forward". Mind blowing.

I've never seen an aircraft that looks so much like a bird from profile view. Beautiful and powerful creations.

Jump start or do you have to push it and pop the clutch and hope for the best???🇨🇦😄

Beauttiful technology leading the world to peace...🎉🎉🎉

Didn't say a damn thing about how they start it. I guess ya got me. Yay, you.

The F117 wasn’t revolutionary in its use of fly-by-wire. The F16 was the 1st.

Am I alone in wondering why, at this particular moment in current world events, a vlog like this shows up on YT?

Thing looks like a sparrow hawk from the side view

The paint guy is only spraying air out of the paint gun. Lol quality work guys.

Excellent, Thank you👍

It starts with an APU just like any other jet.

Those are some other worldly aircraft. I'm so glad they belong to us! 😊😊😊

watched twice to see a crazy starting process... i missed something. you should see the process for starting an SR-71!!! high powered car engines in a cart under the SR's engines that have a geared hydraulic shaft that lifts up and engages the engine to crank it to start it.

whoa, when that mid flight fuel flap turns back to closed, no gaps can be seen... thats some precision there.

14:32 What a honor as a passenger to see and know that there is a Stealth airplane landing in the same runway where we are taking off!!!

A prodigy of technical in all senses!

And the "US Air Force Crazy Process to Start $2 Billion Stealth Plane" was WHERE in the video?

so, what's the startup process?

So how does it start???

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Very interesting, but nothing on the starting process.

flying in the sky like a flying bat.awesome.i love your video

I see a lot of comments about how crazy it is that this aircraft cost $2billion. It doesn't really cost that much. It does, but it doesn't. What happened was back in the 80s they awarded a contract to Northrop to produce something like 200 aircraft to replace the aging B-52 fleet. I'm speaking in general numbers because I don't remember the exact details. I was an Air Force contractor at the time with the B-2 program. Anyway, they ordered around 200 airplanes for $20 billion. They started assembly of the first 10 or so when the Soviet Union fell, and Congress decided they didn't want to buy all those airplanes, so they tried to cancel the order after the first 20 were in production. Northrop said, uhh, we just spent several billion in research and development on this thing, and we have a signed contract for $20 billion- so we're going to need that $20 billion, please. So the Air Force, being legally bound by a $20 billion contract, paid $20 billion to Northrop for 20 airplanes. Had Congress not cancelled the order, the original run of B-2s would have been around $100million each, about the same as we pay these days for an F-22 fighter aircraft. The reason it is $2 billion today is because over the years the Air Force has had several $billion contracts to upgrade the avionics and other systems of the B-2, so each one of these airplanes, since there are only 20 of them, is now worth $2 billion- if you look at it that way. Had their been a 200 airplane fleet, each would be a $200 million airplane. This is a prime example of the genius that is our government...

Technical development I bean!

Gebrüder Horten lassen grüßen!

WOW ! NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT STARTING THE ENGINES!!

This is why I almost joined the air force. Problem: too short to be a pilot.

And that crazy process would be what exactly?

I was expecting something like the B-52 startup I watched elsewhere.

Thats a beauty..i want one of those for my birthday🇺🇸🇵🇷😳👍

I love America!

Nock nock boom 😂 special deliverys

Watching you from dubai Good night ahead 😴

Awesome Engineering. Like to fly in one of those.

It's awesome to stand in a hanger at Whiteman and view up close and personal.

13:01 me , dad , and gramp flying together

Greetings from Mexico.

Bravo

Love 😍😍Un&nato 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Hopefully one day I will steal it ...... In GTA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

? crazy start? Where?

Just, this is just humand kind madness, to, pay that kinds amounts of cash, simple plane, that's just fly high in the sky, 🤯🤯😪😪🤗🤗

And what is so crazy about staying ahead of your enemies????

Hadir guys👍

It is a tribute to Jack Northop

الله اكبر والعزة لله

Well if your not a AF Vet a pre trip inspection mite be what they are calling a weird start up. Its more then a CDL pre trip inspection as that has alot to look at. I had a CDL-A. Just my thoughts

Love ur vidios

Matlock super sar

Oh, and such a diverse and inclusive work force! So natural and unforced.

Perfect timing with the B2 that was spotted over Miami Beach the other day (June 9, 2023).

I still have my “first flight” tie tack that was given to all who worked on her.

Very beautiful sweet sir

Try the SR-71 Blackbird Inspection. An aircraft whose skin temperatures reach over 900 degrees. Your uniforms are not clean, dry when finished. I have the original Training manuals for the Pre-Flight and Post Flight inspections among others.

Did you edit out the process of starting the aircraft? Crap.

everything is fine, but why does it have motors on the top side? heat detectors don't detect it, but today satellites are in the game anyway

Fly-By-Wire technology didn't start with the F-117. It's been on the F-14, F-15, F-16, and almost every subsequent military aircraft since.

serbian= heyyy Stealth bomber..remember me..

So… does it have 2 crew members or 3 crew members, because all the pics I have seen during refueling in refueling have a third ejection seat/ cut through line on the aircraft outer hull???

The brits had the AVRO Vulcan bomber that had the radar cross section of a seagul in the 1960's

The F 117 is very famous for its invisibility, said anti-aircraft crew from Serbia...

The F-117 is 60 years old. I remember first seeing them in the first Gulf War as a child. It looked so otherworldly then. Still does now.

لا اله الا الله

日本にも配備してくれ。売ってくれ。

Americans have the coolest stuff!

Greetings from Serbia. We didnt know that it was invisible sorry

The B2 is like my ex-gf .... high maintenance!

Good grief! It's the Batplane!

Learning about stealth technology is like learning about a nuclear bomb... you feel guilty but is so intriguing

Not what I expected

The first time I had seen one was at the IAT at Fairford and it looked like nothing created by man, it was awesome, the Battle of Britain Flight was also there and I thought aircraft have gone from the Lancaster to the B2 in a single lifetime. Having said that, I suspect it's like the Tiger Tank, a superb bit of kit, but too expensive, too complicated and too few in number to make an impact, the Russian T34 and Sherman tanks showed how it should be done, cheap and easy to make, and lots of them.

When these stealth airplanes were first seen in the late 1980s, people were reporting triangular UFO in the US and UK.

i could hot wire this in 30 seconds.

Russia showed the NATO who is the master in Weapons, without too much noise. The price is not a reference, again Russia is the Number ONE in this field

Most people don’t know that the B2 use electrogravitics to save fuel. Positive 2 million Volts on the slats, negative 2 million volts on flap area. This when ingaged during cruise can save 35% fuel utilization.

Many years ago during my executive job coaching days a man contacted me to help with his job search. He told me he had invented the coating to scatter radio waves and go stealth and sent me a newspaper article to prove it. Our govt confiscated his patent "in the interest of national security" and didn't pay him for it.

charcoal + superglue.

thats the annual budget for the LAPD

One would think they could afford new tires on a 2 billion $$$$ plane!!!

What do the different belt colors mean?

Rather the super expensive coating wrapped in super difficult to start bomber plane.

Thought this vid was supposed to be about starting the plane. What happened?

There is something alien in the Northrop Grumman plane

What push it and then let the clutch out

Wouldn't that be "the b2s wing flexes ever so slightly" and not wings? It is after all a flying wing plane suggesting only the one :~)

proche orient ou africa?

The way you start the B2 is:

You can't compare any Russian plane to stealth B2 because this bird is very secret

Whiteman AFB not Whitman.

Why crazy ?

Unnecessarily expensive.The plane may be invisible, but better radars will develop over time. This cycle will never end. What if the plane is shot down by the enemy? According to the laws of physics, there is no plane that can not be shot down. And when it falls, it deals a big blow to you.

Its called White man not whit man

By using "old" radars with longer wavelengths there is no stealth.....

Never saw the process if starting the plane.

How is this legal to post this on youtube for world public to see? Unless this is for mis-information purpose? Only wondering, not bashing anyone. :)