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B2 Hanger Queen augers in on Guam - 2 billion dollar junk pile - 20 left

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-23 00:17|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Maybe the Air Farce shouldn't be in such a hurry to retire the F117s.

Specs on B2 Hanger Queen here

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-23 01:26|| 2008-02-23 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The B-2 was cheap, it was just the assembly line that was expensive. We stepped over dollars to pick up dimes...

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-02-23 01:55|| 2008-02-23 01:55|| Front Page Top

#3 What's it like to punch out of a $2 billion dollar plane?

"Eject! Eject! Eject!"
"But this plane cost 2 giga-bucks!"
"THEY CAN BILL M----" WHOOOOOSH!

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-02-23 04:24|| 2008-02-23 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Uncle Sam is NOT going to like this!

Posted by gorb 2008-02-23 04:53|| 2008-02-23 04:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm surprised more of them haven't crashed, since they're so controlled by computer.

Posted by gromky 2008-02-23 05:25|| 2008-02-23 05:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Do you still have a career in the Air Force if you lose a bird like this?

Posted by john frum 2008-02-23 07:40|| 2008-02-23 07:40|| Front Page Top

#7 ...since they're so controlled by computer.

Maybe they confused the eject button with the reboot button...

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-23 07:51|| 2008-02-23 07:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Reminds me of a story from the World War 2 era.

A GI in training slips on a rope bridge and drops his M-1 Garand into a fast-moving Georgia stream. All efforts to retrieve the weapon fail.

Payday rolls around and our hero goes to collect. He receives just a few dollars and change. "What gives?" he asks the paymaster, "there's just a few bucks here."

"Simple," replies the paymaster, "We took out for the rifle you dropped. If you lose government propery you have to pay for it."

"Sheesh, now I see why the captain always goes down with his ship."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-02-23 07:54|| 2008-02-23 07:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Do you still have a career in the Air Force if you lose a bird like this?

I think you are gently asked to perform sepukku. Sake and poem provided by the Air Force.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-02-23 10:35|| 2008-02-23 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeah, you still have a career:

http://www.thule.af.mil/

The good news is that I hear there is a woman behind every tree!

Posted by crosspatch 2008-02-23 11:24|| 2008-02-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#11 1.2 billion! Can I have just the 0.2 billion?

Posted by Clem Fliter2506 2008-02-23 11:41|| 2008-02-23 11:41|| Front Page Top

#12 You still have a career in politics if you build an assembly line that can build a hundred of these a year and have it shut down after building twenty at five a year.

Congress and the Air Force signed off on that monstrosity of a production plan.

If they want to be assholes to the crews that risk flying the thing I'm _sure_ they can find volunteers from the PLAAF to fly it for them instead.

(And I'm sure they'll actually do a proper production run with it, like sober people instead of crackheads, once they're through with their measurements).

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-02-23 12:37|| 2008-02-23 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Doing the same thing to the F-22, cutting the production run after paing such a huge price for the R&D and prod line setup.

Idiots.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-02-23 14:17|| 2008-02-23 14:17|| Front Page Top

#14 I sure hope the Air Force isn't using up B-2 flight hours flying circles over Afghanistan and Iraq. If long duration is needed better to use up airframes that will soon be retired.

BTW, if I remember correctly, the 21 B-2s had a fly away cost of $350M. Think the Air Force could be interested in a B-767 or is it required to spend $40B on R&D before congress cuts the buy to 10 airframes?

Posted by ed 2008-02-23 15:56|| 2008-02-23 15:56|| Front Page Top

#15 Glad the pilots ejected safely. They were on take off to return to Whiteman AFB in Missery after completing the Guam deployment. They were just a few feet above the runway and the wreckage came down onto runway. Maybe a fuel failure or engines shut down due to malfunction. Too bad, we don't have any extra. Joe M., any poop on this ?

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-23 16:34|| 2008-02-23 16:34|| Front Page Top

#16 It's anti-gravity system probably failed.

Posted by Bob 2008-02-23 20:00|| 2008-02-23 20:00|| Front Page Top

#17 That's what you get when you rely on stuff you find in saucer crashes.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-23 20:01|| 2008-02-23 20:01|| Front Page Top

#18 More seriously, thank G*d the pilots are okay.

We stressed our F15s heavily during the no-fly days of Saddam. We're using the B2s more than expected other than in a force-on-force war, too.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-23 20:03|| 2008-02-23 20:03|| Front Page Top

#19 BTW, if I remember correctly, the 21 B-2s had a fly away cost of $350M. Think the Air Force could be interested in a B-767 or is it required to spend $40B on R&D before congress cuts the buy to 10 airframes?

Ed, I hear that the Communist Chinese are very interested in B-767's for the US Air Force.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-02-23 22:11|| 2008-02-23 22:11|| Front Page Top

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