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USAF Photo of the Day: USA's B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber (Warning: Large Image)
United States Department of Defense ^ | May 12, 2009 | Senior Airman Christopher Bush, U.S. Air Force

Posted on 07/07/2009 5:24:50 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife

May 12, 2009 -- A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over the western Pacific Ocean during a refueling mission. The B-2 Spirit is assigned to the 13th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed to Andersen AFB in "Tip of the Spear" Guam, USA, as part of the Continuous Bomber Presence in the Western Pacific. Via: http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm
The Photographer 
Senior Airman Christopher Bush, United States Air Force


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: b2; bomber; spirit; stealth; usaf

1 posted on 07/07/2009 5:24:51 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
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To: EnjoyingLife

the flying t-square. nice.


2 posted on 07/07/2009 5:27:09 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Looks like its flying over a a textured drywall


3 posted on 07/07/2009 5:30:20 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom King of sarcasim)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Yikes!! That picture is HUGE!


4 posted on 07/07/2009 5:30:37 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: EnjoyingLife
No sun glare from the windscreen in this picture!

ML/NJ

5 posted on 07/07/2009 5:45:49 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: thefactor
"the flying t-square. nice."

No. Actually not a T-square but a framing square.

6 posted on 07/07/2009 5:51:27 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: ml/nj

Uhm... Yeah... That’s because the suns behind the aircraft...


7 posted on 07/07/2009 5:53:50 AM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Nice. Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 07/07/2009 5:53:51 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: EnjoyingLife

That would make an awesome desktop pix!


9 posted on 07/07/2009 5:53:56 AM PDT by randita
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To: al baby

Or blue Naugahyde.


10 posted on 07/07/2009 5:54:23 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Freeport
Actually, it's because the guy who took the photo and his pilot were flying with the express intent of taking photographs and they knew what they were doing.

ML/NJ

11 posted on 07/07/2009 6:00:29 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: EnjoyingLife

Global reach — a wonderful thing. Load up in the USA, drop the payload on the o’seas target, return to USA. Way cool!!


12 posted on 07/07/2009 6:03:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: EnjoyingLife

I wonder how they got it out of the hangar long enough to take the picture :)


13 posted on 07/07/2009 6:07:52 AM PDT by Pookee (in but not of)
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To: EnjoyingLife

After a few more years of Hussein, such images will be of the past as funds will not exist to purchase fuel or equipment and the planes will sit idle with bird nets in their tail pipes.


14 posted on 07/07/2009 6:08:53 AM PDT by fso301
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To: EnjoyingLife

While stationed at Kadena AB, I air refueled these things several times over Guam. I was amazed how big they were...when I stepped back to the boom pod and all I could see was black in the boom’s sighting window.


15 posted on 07/07/2009 6:08:54 AM PDT by jgilbert63
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To: al baby
Looks like its flying over a a textured drywall

My thought exactly. But it's more like wishful thinking in my case ;~>.

16 posted on 07/07/2009 6:10:02 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: EnjoyingLife

neato


17 posted on 07/07/2009 6:24:45 AM PDT by Paytriot (Obama can't find the dark with two hands in his butt)
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To: ScottinVA
Global reach — a wonderful thing. Load up in the USA, drop the payload on the o’seas target, return to USA. Way cool!!

Desert Storm: B-52s from Minot AFB, North Dakota loaded up, flew to the Mid-East, dropped their ordnance, then returned to Minot. All non-stop.

18 posted on 07/07/2009 7:09:29 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer
Desert Storm: B-52s from Minot AFB, North Dakota loaded up, flew to the Mid-East, dropped their ordnance, then returned to Minot. All non-stop.

yeah, and without those cushy little fold out beds they have in the B-2 either!

19 posted on 07/07/2009 7:27:08 AM PDT by DCBryan1 ( Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: DCBryan1

I thought the B-2 had a crew quarters behind the left seat?


20 posted on 07/07/2009 9:56:38 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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