We've lost a B-2

[reevie]

MSNBC is reporting one down

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23302483

I spent a large amount of my career working on this program and this was the dreaded moment. Let's hope it wasn't the Spirit of Oklahoma.

[Mjcpr]

Meh, they're $14.4 billion a dozen.


The pilots are safe according to Fox News.

[Whet]

Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build

that is a lot of $$

[reevie]

that is a lot of $$


Burning on the runaway in a tropical paradise

[colleyvillesooner]

that is a lot of $$


http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8773/orlydi6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Curly Bill]

Wonder if we had insurance on it?

[OKC-SLC]

just liability.

[Curly Bill]

....and don't tell me: the warranty had just expired the week before as well.

[Soonerus]

But the insurance company claims it only covers losses in the continental United States...

[Frozen Sooner]

But the insurance company claims it only covers losses in the continental United States...

Nah, standard coverage area is the U.S. and Canada. :D

[Frozen Sooner]

Wonder if we had insurance on it?

Well, see, I have to carry insurance on my B-2 bomber, which is a scam. I could just write a check for 1.2 billion to pay it off (that, by the way, is the difference between me and you) but I got a great rate on it from my bank. But they make me carry insurance. Which is a scam.

Here's a picture of my wife, who was hot about 20 years and 40,000 rum punches ago.

[12]

Addressing the original post; spending a large part of your life working to make it succeed; only to watch it crash and scatter putrid, hot ashes all around and on top of you can't be a good thing.

Sounds like my marriage.

(BadoomPSHHHHHHHH)

:(

[Okla-homey]

MSNBC is reporting one down

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23302483

I spent a large amount of my career working on this program and this was the dreaded moment. Let's hope it wasn't the Spirit of Oklahoma.

Well sir, take comfort in knowing it is a marvelous airplane, and having only lost one in the entire period since first flight is the best evidence you guys who designed and built them did a superb job.

By this point in the B-1 program, we had lost three or four. Now, I know we built 100 Bones compared to far smaller numbers of B-2's, but no B-1 was flown in combat until GWII. Thus, B-2 still has a better safety record IMHO.

[Scott D]

Well, see, I have to carry insurance on my B-2 bomber, which is a scam. I could just write a check for 1.2 billion to pay it off (that, by the way, is the difference between me and you) but I got a great rate on it from my bank. But they make me carry insurance. Which is a scam.

Here's a picture of my wife, who was hot about 20 years and 40,000 rum punches ago.

You forgot your golf lessons from Sam Snead, and how your private son was supposed to be in a foursome with at least two flag officers for a round of golf.