O/T..our home just had a visitor...the B-2 Bomber, Happy New Year!

ten minute ago we had our annual visitor...the B-2 Bomber which just flew over the Rose Parade route. Each year it turns back right over our house...awesome!! It really shakes the house! Well, its 75 degrees...gotta go for a drive!!!!
Happy News Years HAMBers!!!!
(BTW...just for reference, this thing has a 172 foot wingspan)

 

Great pictures, you must have good camera!

 

Cool, I still can't believe that thing flies!

 

That is the creepiest military flying machine ever!
The B-2 blows my mind.
Great pics.
Thanks and have a great new year!

 

that thing is just AWESOME! my pop said he saw the original one fly over Long Beach when he was a kid. too bad they s****ped that one..

 

Pretty impressive, they p*** over my place when they do a flyby of Mt Rushmore.

 

i have a promo type pic (somewhere ) of a earlier version, my grandpa worked there. not 100% sure on it or not, but he did work on the apollo projects.

 

I don't think it was s****ped. When I was at the Chino Air Museum a few years ago, it was on display and I think it still flies.

 

Reverse engineering at it's best. For now.

 

Amazing!

 

Fred, I need to know the rest of the story.

Frank

 

Not in this thread or on this website.

 

well, maybe we better vote on that.
i say tell us!

 

Lots of T-bucket technology on the B-2 that Fred doesn't want to give away.

 

The scaled down prorotype for a flying wing was this model made by Northrup...the N-9M
These photos are from 2003


this one has been restored by the people at the Chino Air Museum in CA.

The full scale one was the B-49. The test pilot, Glen Edwards was killed in 1948. In his honor, Muroc was re-named Edwards Air Force Base. As you know, Muroc has a large chapter in hot rodding history

 

75 degrees. It didn't look that warm on TV showing the crowd
It 60 here in Orange at 12:42

 

WOAH!!!! that thing is amazing and your camera is amazing as well! enjoy your drive!

 

We saw the fly over on T.V for the start of the Roses praide......

They said you could hear it untill it went by, they it wasnt even loud...

neat stuff in Cal...

 

Pretty awesome but 75? :-( Not sure how cold it was when I headed out to the shop this morning but the insulated coveralls sure felt good.

 

Saw that on the tube this morning, your lucky to get to see it.

When my son was little we’d sit in the nova at the end of the runway and watch the B1’s do touch and go’s. They’d be all over the throttle folding the wings back and banking left as they came over us. Love that stuff.

 

Not unless you want a "visit" from these guys...

 

Cool pics Mazooma!

It's 30 and a couple degrees with a skiff of snow in W MD.
No hot rod riding today.

Happy New Year!

 

OK, so there's the hotrod connection, now tell the story about reverse engineering!!

 

I THINK you are thinking of the F-117 Stealth Fighter...

 

I just got back from a 50 mile drive and its still 72...

 

alien technology!!! so what, it's still cool

 

In Mid-Missouri you can see the B-2 flying everyday. It never gets old. Although, you have to live in Mid-Missouri!

 

Same here..took the Heretic out for 150 miles through the desert p***es..along the mountains. 75* degrees..and now..

Food..beer..and Rose Bowl.!

Living by Davis Montham we see the B2 once in a while..awesome sight.

Even better when the warbirds..P38s..P51s...fly with F15s..F16s..in ******..

Happy New year..

 

So you are implying the U.S. is using alien technology?

 

a couple of years ago, i was driving along about mid mourning. i hear this thunder type of noise. i look up and see 6 of those blackhawk type helicopters flying over really low. a few minutes later, i hear something and look up and a stealth bomber was flying over. this is something you don't see in nowhere kentucky. it was still a fairly new thing at the time. it may sound silly, but, it was kind of spooky.