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USAF Photo of the Day: One Big Bomber Over Kansas
ChamorroBible.org ^ | September 9, 2011 | U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Courtney Witt

Posted on 04/09/2013 11:20:49 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife

The Photographer 
Senior Airman Courtney Witt, United States Air Force  

Via 
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm (medium, large, huge



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: b2; bomber; chat; stealth
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"The Plane That Would Bomb Iran: Inside the cockpit and culture of the B-2, whose pilots may carry the greatest responsibility in the U.S. military today" by Robert D. Kaplan

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/09/the-plane-that-would-bomb-iran/306133/?single_page=true
1 posted on 04/09/2013 11:20:49 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: EnjoyingLife

Obama’s wish: To have the bomber bomb Kansas.


2 posted on 04/09/2013 11:23:42 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

The reflection off the pilots helmets look like eyes, pretty cool.


3 posted on 04/09/2013 11:29:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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To: brownsfan

That’s what I thinking. A bomber over Kansas is nothing to be excited about these days.


4 posted on 04/09/2013 11:31:51 AM PDT by MNDude (Have you ever noticed how many hate filled atheists there are on the Internet?)
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To: EnjoyingLife

When I was a kid in Kansas, B-52 bombers would accasionally pass overhead at a few hundred feet. If you were out in the middle of nowhere driving a tractor and couldn’t hear them coming, it would scare the crap out of you.


5 posted on 04/09/2013 11:33:27 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: EnjoyingLife

Gorgeous photo. I’d love to be in the photo plane. Thanks for posting!


6 posted on 04/09/2013 11:34:30 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: ozzymandus

You can’t hear the B2 until it has passed, either.


7 posted on 04/09/2013 11:34:32 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: EnjoyingLife

That is just ****ing awesome!


8 posted on 04/09/2013 11:39:27 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

New desktop background pic.

Thanks!


10 posted on 04/09/2013 11:42:06 AM PDT by moovova
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To: EnjoyingLife

They are things of beauty. I’m glad I’ve had a chance to see a few close up, both on the ground and in the air.


11 posted on 04/09/2013 11:42:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: EnjoyingLife

What if Napoleon had a B-2 at the Battle of Waterloo?


12 posted on 04/09/2013 11:45:38 AM PDT by OKRA2012
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13 posted on 04/09/2013 11:46:03 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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I would bet you grew up W of Salina??

MFO


14 posted on 04/09/2013 11:47:36 AM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: EnjoyingLife

I haven’t been able to go...yet...

But the local Air National Guard in Topeka lets some people on ride-alongs. You go up with the 190th Air Refueling Wing on a KC135 tanker, and it refuels somebody (usually a B-2). A friend of mine got footage from the refueling station...the boom and the B-2 lining up and everything.

It looks like this photo i9s from a similar training mission. I think the bombers are at Whiting in Missouri, so they do alot of refueling exercises with the Topeka unit.


15 posted on 04/09/2013 11:47:46 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Man from Oz

Yep.


16 posted on 04/09/2013 11:49:20 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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B-52 bombers would occasionally pass overhead at a few hundred feet.

Same here - I have seen a group of 4-5 B-52's flying low over the water on a big lake in Kentucky. They seemed like they were actually BELOW the level of the hills on the sides of the lake. I would guess no more than 200 feet AGL. This was probably in late 70's/early 80's.

17 posted on 04/09/2013 12:04:46 PM PDT by tpmintx (Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
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When I was a kid in Kansas ...

When I was a kid in Kansas, I often heard B-29s overhead. In fact, to this day I can identify a B-29 by the sound overhead. I confirmed that about ten years ago at an air show.

All I recall are B-47s when the Air Force created the Strategic Air Command and opened SAC bases in Kansas. I understand Boeing in Wichita flew B-52s but I didn’t think there was a B-52 Wing at McConnell.

18 posted on 04/09/2013 12:06:54 PM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: EnjoyingLife
Looking at the full-size picture, I see that's aircraft 82-1070, the Spirit of Ohio. Fifth B-2 to be built. 82-1070 was part of the test program at Edwards AFB before it was reconfigured for operational use.

82-1070 was the jet used for climactic testing at the McKinley lab in Florida, earning the nickname "Fire and Ice."

I was able to see 82-1070 in its "Fire and Ice" regalia in 1995 while visiting Edwards and the Northrop plant as part of the B-2 team stationed at Whiteman AFB, Missouri.

Disclosure: the B-2 on display at the Air Force Museum in Wright-Patterson AFB is actually a test airframe (which never flew) painted to resemble this jet, with its "Fire and Ice" artwork.

19 posted on 04/09/2013 12:07:07 PM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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I think it was back when the b-52s were around. A couple of ‘em flew low and loud enough to break windows in the area, and a spate of complaints came in.

One was from a rancher, who said,”Your aircraft came in low and broke the sound barrier - and three of my windows. However, I can’t gripe. If it was the Russians, they’d have broken more than my windows. Keep ‘em flying.”


20 posted on 04/09/2013 12:15:24 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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