Another AF Crash

[aussiewannabe]

Saw this one on the news tonight:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/22/stealt ... index.html

[Isak922]

Wowzaz...

A B-2?!

Wonder what the hell happened to make one of them crash!

[expat]

Is there enough space on the check to write all the zero's for the insurance pay out

Matt

[Wing Nut]

Still the most useless airplane EVER developed...  ::)

[Mictheslik]

That's one expensive mistake......

.mic

[Fozzer]

...it's times like this that makes me wonder what else, useful, they could have spent that enormous amount of cash on...

...Hospital care?....Social Security?.....Pensions?...

...a new brand Ducati 999 for me?...etc... ...!

Paul... ...!

[flyboy 28]

Wonder what the hell happened to make one of them crash!

The wings stopped producing lift is my guess.

[Chris_F]

[quote]Still the most useless airplane EVER developed...

[Xyn_Air]

Wonder what the hell happened to make one of them crash!

The wings stopped producing lift is my guess.

Yet another failed attempt to fly through the ground instead of the air?



Glad the pilots are safe, in any case.

As for how expensive a loss this is, well . . . that's just the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.  As soon as you can get people to stop fighting one-another at the drop of a hat, we can switch from spending billions of dollars on the military and instead make sure everyone has a shiny new system that runs FSX like a dream.



Selfishly awaiting world peace,
Darrin

[expat]

Wonder what the hell happened to make one of them crash!

The wings stopped producing lift is my guess.

Yet another failed attempt to fly through the ground instead of the air?

All those millions of square miles of air and it still flies into a planet

Matt

[Mictheslik]

Wonder what the hell happened to make one of them crash!

The wings stopped producing lift is my guess.

Yet another failed attempt to fly through the ground instead of the air?

All those millions of square miles of air and it still flies into a planet

Maybe the planet didn't get out of the way because it couldn't pick the B2 up on Radar

.mic

[Chris_F]

[quote]
As for how expensive a loss this is, well . . . that's just the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.

[Chris_F]

Wonder what the hell happened to make one of them crash!

The wings stopped producing lift is my guess.

Yet another failed attempt to fly through the ground instead of the air?

All those millions of square miles of air and it still flies into a planet

Matt

Perhaps one really ill-advised game of "chicken"?

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

As for how expensive a loss this is, well . . . that's just the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.  

I'd say it's actually a very cheap loss.  Let's face it, they aren't going to buy another one and they don't really need the ones they already have.  So it's just one less airframe sitting on the flight line in need of maintenance.

They have been using it for a while now, you just don't now it because the system works that well. . Sucks though that we lost one of our coolest most advanced planes. But the pilots are ok, witch is a good thing, but now they don't have any plane to fly when they get back to base.

[Dr.bob7]

probly something tiny like a fragment of a crump from a ruffles potato chip in the engines

it will be something small...