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Originally posted by iwan2ski
reply to post by getreadyalready
Sorry, as a prior B-2 Crew Chief, I can tell you that we land them where ever we want as long as there is a long enough run way and ample security to encircle the craft. Of course this is usually done in the cloak of darkness whenever possible, but not always a must.
In 1996, while meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat, Carter reportedly raised his hands into a physical stop position when Arafat tried to confess his role in the Republican maneuvering to block Carter’s Iran-hostage negotiations.
“There is something I want to tell you,” Arafat said, addressing Carter at a meeting in Arafat’s bunker in Gaza City in the presence of historian Douglas Brinkley. “You should know that in 1980 the Republicans approached me with an arms deal [for the PLO] if I could arrange to keep the hostages in Iran until after the [U.S. presidential] election.”
Originally posted by andy06shake
reply to post by buster2010
"It's designed to do that. The seals fully seal when they reach high altitudes."
Why is that? Leaking fuel and supersonic travel did not work out to well for the concorde, i know its not relavent, and it happened on take off just wondering why the SR-71 leaks.
I mean safe enough for civilian transport, obviously they must be safe with them costing so much, but then theres the Space Shuttle, that did not work out to well on certain occasions.
edit on 17-7-2012 by andy06shake because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Signals
A BAC 111 aircraft, which had been reconfigured to carry a sufficient amount of fuel to travel 3,600 miles, left Andrews Air Force Base in the late afternoon of October 19, 1980.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
Originally posted by iwan2ski
reply to post by getreadyalready
Sorry, as a prior B-2 Crew Chief, I can tell you that we land them where ever we want as long as there is a long enough run way and ample security to encircle the craft. Of course this is usually done in the cloak of darkness whenever possible, but not always a must.
Thanks.
Apparently the newscast that I remember had it wrong.
Is it true that they sometimes run two crews onboard the B2 for long runs? That is what I remember them saying during the 1991 War in Iraq. That the planes would take off and land back in Kansas City without ever touching down anywhere else in the world, with something like a 20 hour mission to drop ordinance in Iraq. Does that sound like what might have happened in 1991, or am I remembering it completely wrong, or was the newscast wrong?