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Miscellaneous => Media => Topic started by: *MAFIA* Manowar on June 06, 2008, 02:02:34 PM
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http://www.break.com/index/b2-stealth-bomber-crashes.html
Second B2 crashes, 1st one is normal takeoff.
Video of a recent B2 crash. I found this on Wikipedia describing the accident.
On 23 February 2008, B-2 s/n 89-0127, named Spirit of Kansas, crashed onto the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.[17] The crash of the Spirit of Kansas, which had 5,100 flight hours, was the first ever for the B-2. Both pilots ejected before the crash and survived, but the aircraft was completely destroyed. No munitions were on board because it and three other B-2s were returning to Whiteman Air Force Base from a temporary deployment to Guam. [18] At Guam Naval Hospital, one pilot was evaluated and released, while the second remained hospitalized. A B-2 already in the air was called back to Andersen following the crash, where it and the other B-2s were grounded until an initial investigation into the crash was complete. Six B-52s of the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2d Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana were deployed to replace the B-2s Chief of Air Combat Command General John Corley stated that the B-2 "rotated early, rotated excessively, stalled, and then dragged the left wingtip". The pilots then ejected and the aircraft ran off the side of the runway and burned.
After viewing it closer I noticed right as the nose lifted chunks of debris flew off the back of the aircraft. Don't know if it was pre eject debris or something involved with the crash but at least the Flyboys made it out safe.
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media?
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media?
Media indeed.
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media?
I put the link on top, here it is again. Click to 50% if you want to skip the normal takeoff.
http://www.break.com/index/b2-stealth-bomber-crashes.html
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That's a good way to ruin our tax dollars.