B2 Crash Video

[Incident_command]

2 billion gone in seconds. Bad flight control data was the cause. All got out. Roll out of B2 that crashes starts at 1:50 of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZCp5h1gK2Q

[DeclinetoState]

Actually, only $1.2 billion gone. Now, doesn't that make you feel a whole lot better?

:evilgrin:

[Incident_command]

Got my cost from here
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-2.htm
Could be wrong though.

[TSawyer2112]

It looked like the 2nd B-2 lifted off earlier and at a steeper angle than the first perhaps going into a stall. Thank the Lord everyone got out.

[DeclinetoState]

Got my cost from here
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-2.htm
Could be wrong though.
Hey, a few hundred million here, a few hundred million there: it's just money.

:evilgrin:

[Incident_command]

Indeed sir.

[DoctorDoom]

Hey, a few hundred million here, a few hundred million there: it's just money.A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
-- Senator Everett Dirksen

[DesertFox]

-- Democrat

[Rhino]

Got my cost from here
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-2.htm
Could be wrong though.
"The cost of the lost aircraft is about 1.4 billion dollars," the statement read.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=121023

The reason for the difference is in procurement costs. The initial cost, which is what fas.org quotes, includes development costs. Since those costs are covered in the initial procurement, any new bomber after that point would not include development costs, and would therefore be listed at a lower price.

[DesertFox]

Are you SURE it's not those robber-baron industry tycoons just price-gouging us poor little guys? It's gonna take all this life and the next several before I can even THINK about buying one a those! :evilgrin:

[Rhino]

Just wait til you hear the gas mileage. :lol:

[gnome]

On the other hand, you won't need a radar gun detector...