B-21
 

The Raider got revealed today.

I just finished watching the unveiling from Palmdale

Can’t wait to see it fly. But it’s really just a smaller version of the B2 on the outside.


It’s the inside and the new skin that is the real magic.

Btw, it can fly pilotless missions……..making it one hell of a drone

I thought PA started a BINGO thread.

My father-in-law flew B52’s in Vietnam.

That was over 50 years ago.

Amazing.

OK, that was funny. :lol:

Yep….and they’re still going. I worked nuke security where there were 22 Nuke Loaded B-52’s sitting on alert. They rotated the planes and only about half were on alert at a time. We used to get invited to sit in the cockpit and if you ever have……you’d be amazed at how small it really is………that was in 1985-86. We thought they were Dinosaurs back then……….

Never sat in one. But caught a lift in a Galaxy.
Wow!

The two air museums on the National Mall in DC have various cut away cock pits on display you can stand right next to. I guess I am lucky not having uncorrected 20-20 vision kept me from joining the Air Force as they did not allow 4 eyed people as pilots or on board flight crew back then as that is what I was interested in. I have a touch of claustrophobia, those cockpits are too small for me, especially the two seater fighter planes.

They had a battle scarred B-52 at the Air Force museum at March Air Force base. The thing looked like it had been patched more times than one could could count. I was told it was flown there in it's current condition and flew 175 combat missions in Vietnam. How that big battered plane could still fly is beyond me.


As someone versed on modern computer aided design and manufacturing how
they got that thing designed, and built to be reliable 70 years ago impresses the hell out of me.

Did you sit upstairs, or downstairs? In a airline style seat or on a net or other troop rack?

You look at it from the front straight on it looks like a flying saucer.

I had the pleasure of working on the B2, we built 21 mainframes to maintain, test, repair every redundant electronic system on board. I am just thinking the new B21 is named after how many B2's were built. A very impressive array of capability's inside the B2's. We can only speculate the undisclosed capability's og B21.