[BenLurkin]

"STEALTHY FLIGHT - A B-2 stealth bomber takes off Wednesday morning from U. S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the first B-2 delivery to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri." GENE BRECKNER/Valley Press

[BenLurkin]

By serendipty, I had the pelasure and honor of seeing this take off yesterdy. The B-2 is just the world's coolest airplane.

[Paladin2]

B-2: "The "Spirit of America," the last bomber to enter service, was dedicated on July 14, 2000. Congress capped the B-2 program at 20 planes..."

B-52: "A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962." (AF web site)

Hard to believe that B-2 production has been halted for 10 years. If these planes are as good as described, their (low production) numbers will not allow replacement of the B-52, nor the likelihood of as long a period of service.

[Renegade]

It was a surprise appearance at Kill Devil Hills after the rain delay . It was scheduled for Monday but didn't show up . Ten minutes later President Bush's Air Force One buzzed the monument at about 500 feeton his way home to DC.
Saw a B-2 a few years ago on Veteran's Day at a Bucs game in Tampa. Came over the stadium at about 500 feet . The pictures I got were so great you could read the fine print on the underside . Definitely a product of Roswell reverse engineering .

[A.A. Cunningham]

"It does things for our country no other flying machine can do.

Except fly in lousy weather, deploy on a moment's notice to any clime or place or reach a 50% mission capable rate for the fleet.