In-Flight Refueling: B-2 Bomber

[Miller, Gerald S.]

This is well after my time.

Jerry

 

Stealth Bomber Refueling

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0bc_1428285879 

[John Stevens]

Mine to, Jer!

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[Mike's Roadrunner]

Great video.  I worked on the B-2 for 3 years at SAC HQ and then went out to Northrup for 3 years.  It was a great program, but then cut the buy too short.

Mike

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[Richard Stewart]

While with the 452ARW at March we often did missions at Edwards AFB, they would brief us to leave ALL cameras and to take NO photos under penalty of prison, then at the last minute the aircrew from the B-2 would hand us their personal cameras and tell us to take photos!!

For years both the 22nd BW and our own 336ARS from Match AFB would fly secret missions in support of the stealth fighter and the crews really did keep it secret!

I also attended an experimental flight of a jet fighter with reversed wings and vectored thrust that was never produced. I suspect it was a test bed for the features eventually used on the F-22 and F-35.  I was there with our Flying Safety Officer as I was the Assistant for the Wing as an additional duty and the safety office at Edwards invited the two of us for the classified "show" we monitored the flight from mission control after getting to see and touch the plane prior to flight.  It was covered with tufts of yarn and many monitoring devices that transmitted hundreds of things to the computer in mission control.

Before the B-2 was widely exposed to the public we also flew groups of VIP's to Plant 42 to see (and touch) the B-2 in the hanger.  One demo was to give us a ball peen hammer and a piece of the composite wing of the B-2 and ask us to try to dent it.  No matter how hard you hit that piece of material it left NO dent whatsoever!!