B2 question
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They stopped at the Bucee’s in Saudi Arabia.
You don’t wanna be the guy wash the flight suits
I’m sure they take turns and do some autopilot. And it has a toilet.
But you can’t flush in stealth mode
They are equipped with a bed, microwave and toilet. So they were probly eating hotpockets on the way over
Because it affects the radar signature or the thermal signature?
The 2 man crew sit side by side like a bomber or airline jet. I’ve never actually seen where the bed is but there’s some sort of fold down cot and it’s a chemical toilet and apparently a microwave.
Had a buddy who flew B-1s on the long range stuff over Syria. It’s a wild process that starts when you wake up prior to the mission. Eat this at a certain time, take that at a certain time….in addition to the creature comforts like a cot and chemical toilet of course. I hope they’ve got better seats than I; after 2 hours, my butt goes numb if I didn’t get the seat right on preflight
They have a toilet and a bed. They even have a damn microwave.
After dropping bunker busters…
After dropping bunker busters…
My guess is that’s it’s an Air Force base that is almost in the geographic center on the continental US. More secure from attack. Same reason ICBM silos are in the northern plains. US Strategic Command is in Nebraska.
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The real question is how long the pilots flying the Generation 4 and Generation 5 escort fighters stuck in their seats. Those were the bad asses. They probably took off somewhere a little closer. I guess like NACAR drivers. What do they do?
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Whiteman AFB. It's an about an hour east of KC. It's the only B2 wing in the AF, that doesn't necessarily mean that all the B2s are there are the same time.
I was doing electrical system surveys of buildings at Whiteman years ago and a pilot gave me a close tour of the exterior of one of those. Went on to talk about their recent trip over North Korea and back. It was a great experience and the pilots were a pleasure to meet.
The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has an unrefueled range of 6,000 nautical miles (6,900 miles or 11,000 km). With one mid-air refueling, its range extends to over 10,000 nautical miles (11,500 miles or 19,000 km). This allows it to reach any point on the globe within hours.
Tell me more about this chemical toilet.
I am not going to say you are wrong, but the escorts were F-15E, F-16, F-22 and the US Navy do not use those planes. Those are Air Force planes. There were some F-35 which the US Navy use but so does the Air Force. Those planes were probably repositioned to bases in the region. I don't see Naval planes fling escort for Air Force. There are rivalries between branches of service. The Air Force would not allow it to happen when they can do it themselves.
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In case you're interested, here's our personal Mississippi B2...
How pissed does the other pilot get when one drops a deuce in that chemical toilet. Hell, even just pissing in it probably stinks up the joint unless the military somehow has access to some toilet technology that isn’t available on small recreational boats.
The Real Bad Asses were the WWII Pilots. My father was P51 pilot in the Pacific Theater. He regularly flew 8 - 9 hour missions from Iwo Jima to Mainland Japan. These guys were strapped into that small cockpit with no bathroom, no microwave, & no radar. Many times their crew chief had to pry their hands off of the yoke and lift them out of the cockpit due to the length of the mission and then wash them down with a hose because they had to go to the bathroom during the mission.
That took 3 hours of the trip by itself.
My friend flew B-52s. They are able to swap out. Side note. He described flying it as like driving a 100 foot wide RV.
Godangit Darryl, if you yell bombs away 1 more time I'm turning this plane around!
The clock is ticking on renaming that base.**
I had a cousin who was a U-2 pilot back in the day. He wore a space suit that had the can built in; in a tight cock pit to boot.
An interesting factoid: once an AF pilot was selected to fly the U-2 back then, the pilot then came under the jurisdiction of the CIA with the highest security clearance in the US. After my cousin retired about 25 years or so ago, he parlayed that experience into contracting back with DOD and was involved in finding Saddam Hussein. Of course, he couldn't give us any details and would usually answer questions with this: "all I can say is you don't ever want to be on the receiving end of the tip of the spear of US military firepower because it will eliminate you when and how it wants to."
To make this sports related: in his college days, he was Pat Sullivan's guard on the gridiron of the Plains. The man lived a rich, but sadly, shorter life than most of us.
An interesting factoid: once an AF pilot was selected to fly the U-2 back then, the pilot then came under the jurisdiction of the CIA with the highest security clearance in the US. After my cousin retired about 25 years or so ago, he parlayed that experience into contracting back with DOD and was involved in finding Saddam Hussein. Of course, he couldn't give us any details and would usually answer questions with this: "all I can say is you don't ever want to be on the receiving end of the tip of the spear of US military firepower because it will eliminate you when and how it wants to."
To make this sports related: in his college days, he was Pat Sullivan's guard on the gridiron of the Plains. The man lived a rich, but sadly, shorter life than most of us.