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Touchdown: B-2 Stealth Jets Return After Epic 11,500 Mile Journey To Bomb Libyan Aircraft Shelters
Daily Mail ^ | March 21, 2011 | By Richard Hartley-parkinson

Posted on 03/21/2011 12:19:12 PM PDT by Fennie

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1 posted on 03/21/2011 12:19:20 PM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Hero pilots?


2 posted on 03/21/2011 12:22:53 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Fennie

please tell me we aren’t using the B-2 for something an F-15 or F-18 can do?


3 posted on 03/21/2011 12:23:42 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: montag813

Obama lied. Africans died.


4 posted on 03/21/2011 12:23:49 PM PDT by coldbluesteel (Endo)
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To: Fennie
Go Air Force!

5 posted on 03/21/2011 12:24:42 PM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: coldbluesteel

Tell me again why we’re bombing yet another country ?


6 posted on 03/21/2011 12:25:32 PM PDT by maine yankee
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To: Fennie

Man, my bladder wouldn’t last that long!


7 posted on 03/21/2011 12:25:58 PM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: GeronL

WTF? I find myself saying that a lot lately.


8 posted on 03/21/2011 12:26:24 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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9 posted on 03/21/2011 12:27:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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Mo’s hideout looks like the bottom of a Shake’n Bake bag.


10 posted on 03/21/2011 12:27:48 PM PDT by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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Waste more money. 3 wars = USA bankruptcy.

This is so much like how Rome failed. Let invaders (illegals) flood in, insane corruption, bancrupt the country, have the Roman Army off fighting useless wars.

The corrupt Roman leadership had bread and circuses to fool the population aka food stamps and TV. The idiots who watch TV enable hussein.


11 posted on 03/21/2011 12:28:58 PM PDT by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: GeronL

C’mon, these guys have been sitting and playing cards in the hangar for a long time. They need to blow the dust off those wings once and a while.


12 posted on 03/21/2011 12:29:12 PM PDT by Hatteras
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Hero pilots?

They would be heroes if they had refused the mission.

13 posted on 03/21/2011 12:29:37 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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Oh for crying out loud! What a monumental waste of money!


14 posted on 03/21/2011 12:30:08 PM PDT by pgkdan (Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
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To: TSgt
B-2’s have “facilities” on them. Imagine the poor guy that has to ferry Warthogs to Iraq from Idaho.
15 posted on 03/21/2011 12:30:23 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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The B-2 is going in when the SAM sites are still active to get rid of same. An F15 or F18 can’t do that with impunity. A stealth aircraft can. F117’s could have been used if we still had them in the inventory AND they had a base to fly from. But - we retired them so the only stealth bomber we have is the B2.


16 posted on 03/21/2011 12:31:06 PM PDT by fremont_steve
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Very impressive. In P-3s, a twelve hour mission is outside the norm, and that’s with three pilots, two flight engineers, and two navigators. Did a 13.2 once because the PPC wanted to set a record. He got an ass-chewing instead. Of course, the B-2 is completely pre- and post-flighted by another crew. In P-3s you do your own 4 hour preflight and 2 hour postflight.


17 posted on 03/21/2011 12:31:18 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: montag813

Skilled pilots, brave pilots, yes. Hero Pilots? Seems to diminish the heroic efforts of pilots past.


18 posted on 03/21/2011 12:31:18 PM PDT by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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19 posted on 03/21/2011 12:31:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: maine yankee

Muslims were being killed by other muslims and apparantly that is a bad thing.


20 posted on 03/21/2011 12:32:37 PM PDT by Grunthor (hcg diet, down 32 lbs in 5 weeks)
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