Posted on 12/02/2022 5:02:46 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Probably gifting it to China. They probably already have it.
Flying test at Area 51 would be the only way to keep civilians from taking photos. It would also require monitoring all of the low earth satellites.
For some reason, I believe the USAF does not want photos of the B-21 to be released. Kind of like the initial pictures of the F-117 that were fuzzied up.
I just watched it...it was a lot more no-nonsense and down to earth.
My son and I got the chance to sit in a F18 Growler about ten years ago at the Mojave Spaceport. The pilot said the only thing we couldn’t photograph were the air intakes. They looked ordinary to my untrained (but mechanical engineer) eye.
I can smell the tax dollars roasting from here.
I noticed the intakes mentioned a couple times. Can anyone explain why the intakes matter that much.
I think that I gave a report to my English class on the B58, the disclosure to the public of its first supersonic bomber having appeared in our school's "My Weekly Reader" article in 1952 (I think. but maybe in "Popular Science"), seventy years ago.
Hmmm.
The B52's military service has outlasted that of many aircraft of every air force across the globe, eh?
It does surprise me as well. I think there is an argument to be made, when you have a plane that was designed as well as the B-52 was that there may have been some divine inspiration in its design.
Nah…. Zel the puppet was installed under obamas tenure. Since the European pipeline war he started in Syria paid off… thought Biden would start another one with in Ukraine.
The end goal is pretty predictable, as well as both being Russia proxy wars, if enough people remain uniformed…. Maybe they can install a puppet in Russia too.
The globalists have got to have Russian natural resources to go green. Putin is too much of a nationalist to give the resources up. Funny.. Putin, the bad guy, is standing in the way of the global evil.
The short answer is stealth. One of the biggest challenges in stealth is how to hide the engines from radar.
My buddies brother is in on some aspect of the engineering of this plane. I saw him last week, unfortunately at his father’s memorial, he literally can’t say a word about what he does. He is now in Florida, I didn’t know Northrup Grumman was working out of that State.
Was it the intake itself, or did he not want you to take a picture down the intake at the engine?
Most impressive:
They introduced the B21 with, “Ladies & gentlemen...”
Beyond that, “Yawn.” Whole lotta self-gratification goin’ on...
No. Not 85 years--that would have been 1937 earliest design. I doubt that.
I saw the changeover from the B47 that was being implemented in the skies that I watched by myself and the 17-year-old girl that was to become my wife in December of 1957. She was enlisted in the Civil Air Patrol where a part of her rôle was as an Observer.
B-52, also called Stratofortress, U.S. long-range heavy bomber, designed by the Boeing Company in 1948, first flown in 1952, and first delivered for military service in 1955.
The first production model made its maiden flight on Aug. 5, 1954, and although the Air Force took its final delivery of the heavy bomber in 1962, more than 70 of the H model aircraft -- all regularly updated -- are still in active service or on reserve duty.
Nice. Remember the days when the B-52 looked like a flaming barn door on radar?
Exhaust in bursts + shutoff + change in vector when in range of incoming SAMs?
Since China is calling the shots why should we expect this aircraft to be anything but a paper tiger?
That makes sense. Thanks.
It’s beautiful.
And in the sky, when seen from a certain angle, it would look like the classic, iconic ‘Flying Saucer’ of popular culture.
(Just sayin’...)
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