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Offline Megalodon

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« on: February 22, 2008, 10:47:57 PM »
B2 crashes in Guam pilots are safe.  I wonder what caused it?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22409839.htm
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2008, 10:55:29 PM »
I wonder what caused it?
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2008, 10:57:32 PM »
First publically displayed in 1989.  I worked on one of the lay-up mandrels for a wing flap in 1981. (For you Boeing guys, remember the drawings labeled "581" ?) So if I were to guess, the airframes are somewhere between 20 and 26 years old. Relatively young for a composite aircraft...Who knows...
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2008, 11:22:39 PM »
Big chunk of change gone down the drain.
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2008, 11:33:18 PM »
Costs as much as a space shuttle, yikes.  Glad the pilots are ok, look forward to finding out the cause.

Did they file a flight plan?  ;)

(apparently the most important part of any flight, according to the media when reporting on crashes)
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2008, 11:44:49 PM »
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Big chunk of change gone down the drain.


yes the budget just went up 1.2 billion..
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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2008, 11:58:31 PM »
Thats 4 military aircraft in non combat crashes in the last 2 weeks.. Luckily all the pilots lived.
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« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2008, 12:19:59 AM »
Good thing it wasnt a B52. Survival rates for ejecting from a 52 are 50 percent. Especially for the nav and weapons officer, their seats shoot downward.

B2 pilots are generaly the best heavy pilots, so im pretty sure it was some sort of catastrophic failure. although in a plane that complex, a catastrophic failure would equal a badly written line of somputer code in the fly by wire system.
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« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2008, 12:37:45 AM »
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I wonder what caused it?
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badabing! :D
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« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2008, 05:18:25 AM »
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Thats 4 military aircraft in non combat crashes in the last 2 weeks.. Luckily all the pilots lived.


One of the F-15 pilots died after ejecting :(
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« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2008, 07:38:53 AM »
I'm glad the crew is OK. I imagine they will nail down the cause of the incident through their investigation.
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« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2008, 08:13:39 AM »
Stall.

Most of us in-game stall out 10-15 times a day and think nothing of it...we either use it as a tactic or have learned how to easily recover from it.

Not so in the B2.

There is even an on-board computer that will not allow a pilot to intentionally stall the aircraft.

However, wind conditions, engine failure, and a few other conditions could bring about that 1 in 500,000 situation where the aircraft stalls.  Hit the button and bail.


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« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2008, 09:52:50 AM »
At least both of those guys are safe. I heard this morning that one of them was in the hospital out there but was it was said that he would recover.
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« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2008, 10:20:46 AM »
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One of the F-15 pilots died after ejecting :(


oh did he? I thought they both lived?
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