"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
10/26/2015 at 08:51 • Filed to: None
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"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
10/26/2015 at 08:51 • Filed to: None | 3
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It had a black Oppo sticker on the gold-plated windows, anyone know the guy? :D
Yesterday, I’m picking pumpkins with the kids and some friends in super-rural East Alabama. No sooner had we all gotten settled on the back the the hayride than I looked up to a B-2 flying directly overhead in a high overcast, maybe 10k feet at the most.
With 20 of these in the fleet and the fact that I (a)wasn’t at an airshow and (b)live nowhere near their Missouri base, this was like seeing a unicorn. And I’m sure I completely dorked out in front of 30+ strangers, but I have never seen a B-2 in person in my life. For the non-aircraft people like my wife, I just said “that’s a billion and a half dollars , plus fuel and crew time.” The whole thing just boggles the mind.
A little extra sleuthing on my part says it was mostly likely headed home to Missouri from a big Jacksonville airshow this past weekend. If you draw a straight line on the map, it makes perfect sense.
ttyymmnn
> Ash78, voting early and often
10/26/2015 at 09:38 |
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I've only seen a B-2 once at an air show a number of years ago. He came in high, made two passes at about 1000 ft then headed home. Not a bad gig for the crew to get some easy stick time.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
10/26/2015 at 09:47 |
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I’ve only seen a couple F-117 at airshows, but the first one was probably a few months after it was declassified and started making the airshow rounds. As a kid, the whole idea that airplanes were flying missions for almost a decade before the world knew about them was amazing to me. It had no fewer than 6 armed MPs around it, but my uncle was a VIP at this show and knew the crew, so I was 11 or 12 and was able to walk under the ropes and right up within a few feet of it.
Nick
> Ash78, voting early and often
10/26/2015 at 13:03 |
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the B-2’s are incredibly quiet. i saw one at an airshow, and i couldn’t believe how quiet it was. quite a spectacle to see.