[IronKros]

wow, it looks like those boys got it down close before ejecting. It is sitting pretty on the airfield and not lost in some field or the ocean. It also looks mainly intact and now strewn about the wilderness.

That takes nerves of steel to hold onto it before bailing.

[Skooz]

How would you have liked to have been a fly on the wall at that debriefing?

[Yo-Yo]

wow, it looks like those boys got it down close before ejecting. It is sitting pretty on the airfield and not lost in some field or the ocean. It also looks mainly intact and now strewn about the wilderness.

Actually, they never got it up. Video here of what was supposed to be a two ship flight. The first B-2 takes off normally, then the mishap aircraft attempts takeoff.

[raygun]

Nope. See the PopularMechanics link posted in the article above.

The pilot's rotated too early because indicated V2 was 8kts lower than required. The autopilot sensed a nose down condition based on the same flawed sensor input as the indicated V2 error and induced a pitch up attitude of 30^o.

Stall onset was almost certainly immediate. Aircraft typically yaw during takeoff, and the trailing wing tip loses lift first and dips as a result. The pilots ejected the instant the left wing-tip scraped the runway.

THere just was no margin for recovery given the circumstances.