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Posted: 10/13/2004 7:50:19 PM EDT
82-1066 "Spirit Of America"
The first B-2 built and last to enter operational service.    82-1070 "Spirit of Ohio"    88-0332 "Spirit of Washington"   92-0700 "Spirit of Florida"    93-1086 "Spirit of Kitty Hawk"    
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:01:06 PM EDT
[#1]
Here's the "Spirit of New York". She doesn't get to take the fight to the enemy, but the testing performed with her allows all the others to do so.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- A B-2 Spirit drops 32 inert Joint Direct Attack Munitions Aug. 27 at the Utah Testing and Training Range here.  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A B-2 Spirit drops Joint Direct Attack Munitions separation test vehicles over Edwards in an earlier test. On Aug. 6, a B-2 dropped 80 inert JDAMs during a test to increase the B-2's operational capability. 
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:02:47 PM EDT
[#2]
.... ooooooO
... Don Logan is gonna get his ass chewed when he gets to work tomorrow |
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:07:25 PM EDT
[#3]
Can you say "Right-Click"
"Save as......................." |
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:11:01 PM EDT
[#4]
Dude... That mother is HUGE compared to that fighter.
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:14:23 PM EDT
[#5]
Hap Arnold & Jimmy Doolittle would be proud.
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:17:24 PM EDT
[#6]
Thanks for the new desktop!
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:43:07 PM EDT
[#7]
tagged until tomorrow
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Posted: 10/13/2004 8:55:25 PM EDT
[#8]
I am a HUGE B-52 fan, but the B-2 gives me chills! I'm just glad that thing is on our side!
BTW, thanks for the pics! |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:02:12 AM EDT
[#9]
I've always been pissed that they didn't buy 50 of them. As it stands, some states have B2s named after them and some don't. Mine doesn't, although a high-tax, strong-union, anti-death penalty state like MI doesn't merit one.
I guess I'll have to move to a state with a B2. Is there a 'Spirit of Texas'? |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:18:44 AM EDT
[#10]
I love the B2; don't get me wrong....
... but am I the only one who thinks the B1 is still the sleekest, bad-ass-est modern bomber ever built? |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:40:17 AM EDT
[#11]
Naw, you ain't wrong.
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:55:25 AM EDT
[#12]
+1 Im sure our enemies have nightmares about this machine |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 4:13:05 AM EDT
[#13]
I have met Don Logan. He lives here in Wichita. I contacted him through his web site and went to his house to have him sign his B1 book for my Dad. Mr. Logan is a great American, who has done an incredible amount of work to help defend our country. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 4:16:06 AM EDT
[#14]
I think the same way. The B1 is the best bomber we have. 
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:34:16 AM EDT
[#15]
No he won't. You think someone could simply park themsleves on/by a flightline and snap away at our bombers? He was cleared to do so. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:53:00 AM EDT
[#16]
Heavy bombers rock, and yes, there is a Spirit of Texas http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b2bombs.jpg http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b_02.jpg http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b1_mk82.jpg http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b_21.jpg http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b2taxi.jpg |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:59:39 AM EDT
[#17]
I used to live in Wichita, about 1 mile east of McConnell AFB when the KS ANG had a B1 wing. Watching those motherfuckers take off at dusk on full burner was simply BAD ASS. The entire house literally shook for about 10 seconds, until the planes got far enough away. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:09:35 AM EDT
[#18]
I know that place! My dad was stationed there (SAC) when I was a kid. USAF Rocks 
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:11:06 AM EDT
[#19]
I lived 1/4 mile from the runway at Grand Forks in the early 90s, before they were pulled off alert and moved to Dyess & Ellsworth. We couldn't keep pictures straight on the walls to save our lives, and we had to leave rattle space between the glasses in the kitchen cabinet or they'd sound like a garbage can full of beer bottles in the back of a pickup. You could see the flame from the afterburners for miles away, and every car alarm on base would go off from the rumbling of the engines. If you were one the phone when one took off, you'd have to wait 30 seconds or so before speaking, or you couldn't be heard. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:12:04 AM EDT
[#20]
Sound of Freedom. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:30:58 AM EDT
[#21]
Amen! Hardly a complaint--I get itchy when I don't hear the roar of high-performance jet engines for a while! There was only one time I didn't appreciate all the noise.....one August night (so all the windows in the bedroom are open), some clown decided to do a high-speed pass over the runway at about 3am. I'm laying in bed, snoozing away, and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! the sound hits. I still swear to this day that the house actually rocked a little. In less than a second, I went from a sound sleep to standing by my bed in my underwear screaming "WHAT THE F*(^! WAS THAT!" My wife was almost hysterical (thought the Russians had attacked, or something), and I didn't see my cats for two days. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:32:07 AM EDT
[#22]
You think that is bad, think of how the enemy feels. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:40:59 AM EDT
[#23]
Don't mean to piss in anyone's cornflakes, but I find it political pandering to name these things after states this way - spirit of Texas? Seeesh!
That is not as bad as naming subs after congressional districts, or carriers after congressional leaders. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:41:24 AM EDT
[#24]
Awesome pics guys! The B1 is a great piece of equipment, just looking at it should put the fear of God in any enemy.
I have a B2 questions though, where are the engines? |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:43:31 AM EDT
[#25]
The intakes are the bumps just in back of and on either side of the cockpit. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 2:53:22 PM EDT
[#26]
Engines?
I knw we forgot something! 
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Posted: 10/14/2004 2:57:02 PM EDT
[#27]
But the important thing is......the B2 doesn't show up on radar. 
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:02:14 PM EDT
[#28]
I'm a huge B-52 fan, but I still think we should have bought more B-2's. Jack Northorop is probably rolling over in his grave now that Congress has cut his dream project again.
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:31:13 PM EDT
[#29]
Nice pics thanks.
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:42:56 PM EDT
[#30]
Who do you think pays for all of this stuff. Of course political pandering goes on. Now if only they'd start naming them. Eradicator Eviscerator Executor Rage Rampage Reaper Relentless Adjucator ... |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:52:12 PM EDT
[#31]
When the Bone works she's great bird, but most of time she's AOG for parts or the weather isn't co-operating. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 3:53:50 PM EDT
[#32]
There have been a few.....
Douglas B-66 Destroyer Douglas TBD-1 Devastator Douglas A-26 Invader Douglas P-70 Havoc Douglas SB2D Destroyer Grumman TBF-1 Avenger Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat Grumman A-6 Intruder Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Boeing B-29 Super Fortress Consolidated-Vultee B-32 Dominator Vultee A-31/35 Vengeance Martin B-26 Marauder Vought SB2U Vindicator
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Posted: 10/14/2004 4:43:24 PM EDT
[#33]
 How do you say, "WTF WAS THAT?" in cat, anyway?
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Posted: 10/14/2004 4:44:56 PM EDT
[#34]
B-1 doesn't show up much, either.... Not nearly as stealthy as the B-2, obviously, but a sneaky little bastard compared to the B-52.... |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 4:48:21 PM EDT
[#35]
Tagged due to rich creamy bomber goodness. Now with 20% more lethal flavor!
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:09:12 PM EDT
[#36]
Here's some more Bomber Pron:
   The B-52 is 1024x768, so it makes killer wallpaper! Just one thing. You DIDN'T get these from me!
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:17:09 PM EDT
[#37]
Nope. You ain't wrong. SG |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:18:21 PM EDT
[#38]
That Bone pic had been my all time fav, but that Buff pic takes the cake.
Shweeeeeeet!!! |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:18:59 PM EDT
[#39]
We seriously needed to buy more then 21 B-2s....We are going to start feeling the pinch from attrition here shorly as more and more B-1s go off line and we are left with antique BUFFs and a handful of Bats. (Not that the BUFF doesn't hold a special place in my heart, it was the plane that won the cold war, but just like the B-29 its time is coming)
Think of how huge a loss it would be (knock on wood) if for some reason we loose a B-2, that is ineffect 1/20th the US Heavy strike and hard target kill capacity since we lost the Peacekeepers due to SALT II>  If I were to go into the way back machine I would have put the the XB-70 into production so that we wouldn't have been forced to split the difference between the B-2 and B-1 in the 80s so we would have a force of something like 300 B-70s and maybe 100 B-2s instead of 120 B-52Hs, 32 Flyable B-1Bs, and 21 B-2s. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 5:24:32 PM EDT
[#40]
The B-2 still requires EA-6B jamming support - contrary to USAF claims during its development that it would not require that service. Less visible yes, invisible no. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:05:11 PM EDT
[#41]
I love the B2 Spirit, the shape is fuckin unmatched!
I dunno though...lots of good stuff out there... Which one do you guys like the best?   
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:06:56 PM EDT
[#42]
I suppose it depends on what type of enemy needs killing!
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:07:12 PM EDT
[#43]
1/100th of the radar cross section of the B-52! Planerench out |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:07:59 PM EDT
[#44]
Overall coolness factor, assuming all are equal. 
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:12:45 PM EDT
[#45]
"RRrrrrRRrrrrr RRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr rrrRRRRRrrr Hiss!"  BTW, cool story! |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:15:34 PM EDT
[#46]
I’m kind of partial to this one,   
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:21:27 PM EDT
[#47]
Speaking of B1 stories....got this in an email at work a couple of months ago. Not sure if true, but it's pretty good!
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:24:04 PM EDT
[#48]
If I had to run a mission and I had a choice, I'd want to fly the B-2.
Stealth baby. You're safer in that plane than any other we have. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:37:59 PM EDT
[#49]
Touchy, touchy! Gimme the F-22! |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 6:38:34 PM EDT
[#50]
That we know about.
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