Posted on 09/16/2006 6:09:08 PM PDT by fightnight
1:00pm? I thought it was around 2:00, but now that you mention, it, it probably was around that time..
Very rare -- in fact, I've never seen one out this way before....
And I'm sure it's the same one -- I doubt they sent more than one for an airshow, ball game, etc....
One flew over Phoenix for the 7th game of the D-Backs/Yankees game 7 of the World Series. We were in a large group just outside of the stadium when someone started pointing. The crowd went wild. You're right: "coolest thing ever."
the only time I've seen a B2 in flight was when one flew over the soccer field complex I was at in Boise to land for an airshow. It was only ~500-600 feet off the ground, landing gear down, and very, very surreal
Thank you all. It is a beautiful plane, and I am proud to say that I did the machining on all of the wing panels for them. I spent six years working on these planes and it is a joy to see them flying.
The Nazis did have flying wings, but give Jack Northrup some credit. The B2 is his airplane and fortunately he lived long enough to see one of his flying wings in the air force inventory.
Nice Candygram!
They are beautiful and silent as a kite up in the sky. Almost ghostly.
When I first caught sight of it, I was a bit puzzled, because you would normally expect such a plane to be at low altitude only shortly after takeoff, but the only airport anywhere nearby that I can think of (unless it came from Long Island) is in Stratford, and besides it being a civilian airport, I doubt that its runway or facilities are adequate to support such an aircraft. That lead me to speculate that it may have been showing off for an audience - for all that I know, it could have been doing a flyby for one of the Connecticut-based defense contractors (a couple of them are located in Norwalk) having an open house or whatever...
I'll give credit where credit is due. Sure. I was just surprised at how similar they were and where the idea came from.
Mrs. F & I were driving back to the SF Bay Area from Sacramento one evening a few years back and saw one do a banking turn right overhead.
Those things're MUCH bigger than I'd imagined.
There will be a B2 flyover at Homecoming (for University of Missouri),
in Columbia, MO on Sept. 23.
Nice to see the local boys from Whiteman AFB will be swinging by.
"...B-24 Liberator and a B-17 Flying Fortress, both in flight. I was heading for Hartford but was still in NY. They must have been coming from or going to an air show. I've seen B-17s before but the B-24 was a first for me."
They were in Oxford (CT) airport for a day too...I snuck over there (5 miles from my home) and had a peek. Too cool!
I think it was the Horten brothers of the Reich that were just a bit
ahead of the curve -- just a bit ahead of Jack Northrup.
http://aerostories.free.fr/constructeurs/horten/page2.html
Oh how I wish I could have seen that for my late Father was a bombardier on a B-24 in the Pacific in WWII.
It doesn't bother me that US aerospace engineers studied what Nazis built, esp. if it was superior and could be an asset to the US. The plane was just sitting in a museum and nothing being done with it. Now I wish I never said anything.
I'm a Jack-Fan, GBA!
I once saw a B-17 and B-24 flying in formation on approach to BDL. I heard low pitch rumbling noise, I went outside and looked up and I was amazed by how slow that they flew.
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