My late grandfather who raised me was a member of the B-2 team that built it I own his certificate ❤ He was very very proud of it and actually got very emotional when it was brought up. I will always hold this dear to my heart and speak his legacy.
Man, I miss such productions. Simplistic, but with reasonable historical context, simple understanable demonstrations, soothing unimposing background music, easy to understand lector.....no heavy metall, no drama.... just enough details to get somebody hooked into subject
Jack Northrurp in his wheelchair in his late 80s, was taken to a secret location.. probably out at Groom Lake and they showed him a large scale model during the building phase of the B2.. he held it in his hands shaking and he said "Now I know why God has kept me alive so long..." Just writing this bring tears to my eyes.. Jack Northrop is one of my hero's in this life
i saw a film of him not too long before his death watching as they rolled out a b2 from the hanger, he did get to see one finished before he died, and i still think politics kept the flying wing from being perfected way back in the 40s when he had it flying.
As someone else had said.. I too wish all the military docs were like this! No annoying LOUD music/sound effects but still maintains exciting entertainment. very informative & fascinating! Thank you!
See, that's what really makes a documentary a pile of bullshit; "entertainment". A documentary is not supposed to be fucking entertaining a bunch of brain dead Soft-drink slurping couch potatoes.
The ones you're referring to are the documentaries of the 2000's which largely don't have any info in them and have rock music in them. The ones you want are from the 70s 80s and 90s.
I had small scale models of every military aircraft from WWII to present. Fixed wing and helicopters. Some I've flown in, and some I watched up close. Even though I spent most of my time on the ground in the Army. Watching these aircraft live are memories I'll never forget. For those who built these great machines. You did good.
During the early 1980’s, I was a crew chief on the B52 G & H models. When the B-2 came out many of us were absolutely impressed. This video has answered many questions we had about it. Of course we may not truly know if the cones really are underneath the radar absorbing skin. Great video and the narrator is excellent at telling us the story!
This is such an amazing and strategic bomber B-2. My DH was supposed to work on this when he passed away. I am sure he would have been so thrilled to have been a part of this endeavor.
My late grandfather who raised me was a member of the B-2 team that built it I own his certificate He was very very proud of it and actually got very emotional when it was brought up. I will always hold this dear to my heart and speak his legacy.
When I was in preschool I saw one fly over head. One of my most memorable times. I lived around 45 miles from an air base and that was around 20 years ago.
I live about 30 miles from Whiteman AFB where most of the B-2s are based, and get to see them fly over quite often. Beautiful and scary at the same time. You don't hear them coming until they turn away and start to climb because the exhaust is on the top side of the wing.
I got to Visit Whiteman Airforce base in 1991 while the B2 program was just getting going. It was pretty amazing hearing the thunder as they lifted off the runway and into the sky. But in all honesty i was more intrigued by the several A-10 Warthogs that were parked right up close to the buildings.
I’ve never come within 10,000 square miles of one of these planes, but my uncle in Kansas City once saw one flying over. He said, “it was easy to see and recognize. I watched it, but it never made a sound.”
A couple of corrections with regards to the Mosquito. It was made out of wood because of the shortage of aluminium, the stealth factor was an added bonus. It was not just flown at night, missions were 24/7 and ranged from sub hunter killer when fitted out with a repeater 3 pounder cannon, pinpoint target daylight bomber/raider as well as the role of pathfinder for night time bomb runs, Video really underplays what an incredible airplane the Mosquito was..
Very popular with Lancaster crews marking their specific targets, German mass housing to maximise the extermination of as many German civilians as possible. A very British strategy, unparalleled barbarity.
I seen the B-2 flyover in Washington D.C. on July 4th,2019..it was totally bad ass,this piece of art in the sky was so graceful it was between unreal and point blank to reckon with..Thumbs up..
15:40 the mosquito flew during the day as well it was a multi purpose fighter bomber, and is credited with some the most difficult raids of most ww2 bombers.
@@nickdanger3802 it was an extremely useful and versatile aircraft. The whole point was that it was a constant thorn in Germany’s side. Picking, prodding, hitting and running; like an actual Mosquito. To make out like it’s operations were just for propaganda is completely wrong and missing the point. Plus Britain in WW2, you know the country that scraped by on rations, lacked resources a lot of the time and relied on resourcefulness to get through? They would hardly keep the plane operational purely for propaganda that’s just a dumb statement. The fact is Britain saw an unconventional design and put it to use. It was guerrilla tactics in the air. If you don’t understand how annoying and draining that is for an enemy you don’t really understand warfare.
@@nickdanger3802 you know what probably not. Both were similar and I have no doubt it could of done what the Mosquito could have. But that’s still missing the point. The Lightning didn’t. The British didn’t have the Lightning and it was an expensive plane for the time. Britain wouldn’t have been able to afford to make many under license. Instead they had a lot of wood. Think about this. The US with unlimited wealth and materials, far from any danger of having production lines bombed, created a great aircraft. Britain created an aircraft equally good from wood, quickly and under constant threat of destruction. It was a make do attitude and was a mark of technological ingenuity that it turned out as one of the best aircraft of the war. All this aside, check anywhere online and the Mosquito is regarded as the better all around aircraft and a lot more versatile. Obviously you can’t believe everything you read but it’s credentials are legitimate and not based on ‘propaganda raids’.
One of the best stories about the B-2 has to do with the open display of the aircraft's silhouette at the entrance to the Northrup plant. The outline of the secret plane had been there for all to see for quite sometime but because the media did not know the shape of the bomber, they were unaware that they walked over it every-time they visited the plant - it was in the walkway at the entrance in different colored stones. When the plane was finally shown to the public someone tipped the media off about the existing display on the walkway. If you look at the photo of the B2 At the hangar you can also see that they painted the star on the ramp by using the silhouette of the B2 there also. The workers must have had a great time knowing that was out there all that time and nobody had a clue.
having seen my first one fly back in 2003ish it was pure awesomeness. At the same time was also able to see one on the ground. although it was about 50 feet away, as it, b52, a10, f117, t38, u2 and b1b were always under armed gaurd. Meanwhile every other aircraft at the air show you could litterally touch, if not get inside of. anyways, pure awesomeness. another thing most people dont realize is the shear size of these. due to their shape, i think it throws people off that these things ARE bombers, thus have a massivie payload
at our airshow in gaylord michigan they had one do a slow fly over. it was pretty neat. If the government is using this in air shows imagine what they have in the works now...
Some things in various order... Northrop first manned Flying Wing prototype, the N1M, dates from 1941 and it already was the successor of a lengthy series of scale models and aerodinamic testbeds. The Horten's design cited by someone was incredibly good, but I really think that Jack and the Horten came to their flying wing designs independently. The first version of Northrop's Flying Wing, the very first XB-35 without vertical fins, was already a pretty stealthy thing. They had serious troubles following it during flight tests, so they designed the first radar reflectors to put on its downside and know what the damn plane was doing. Which reminds me, a sphere is a good radar relector, but it is not the best reflecting geometrical shape, as it only reflects toward the radar the energy that falls exactly on the point perpendicular to it (more precisely, it behaves like point source with a power slightly inferior to the radiation density that it receives multiplied the area). A much better shape is a catadioptric reflector, like the one given by three planes intersecting with 135 degrees solid angles (picture if you will a triangular piramid - aka tetrahedron - remove the faces, add its center and consider the triangles obtained connecting it to the four vertex; each of the four set of three planes so generated is a catadioptric reflector). A catadioptric can reflect near 100% of the radiation it receives on its whole surface toward its source, from any direction (depending on the angle, it may take three reflections to do the trick, and nothing is ever 100% efficient, not even naked metal reflecting radar). A catadioptric behaves like a thinly focusing, very high gain directional antenna targeting the radar with the power it receives from it. As result a catadioptric the size of a basketball has roughly the RCS of a B-52. (And some small examples of these are usually attached to F-35s when they have to mingle with civilian traffic, like when they participate to airshows; Thus, if someone's flashy radar can take an F-35 at an airshow, it is not so revealing). Finally, when the YB-49 was cancelled, Northrop had just started testing a new electronic inertial navigation system - i.e. a fly by wire, I suppose with analog computing and maybe some early digital stuff - that was very promising about getting the yaw instability under control. Personally, I agree with those that suspect that the program was cancelled more because Jack Northrop was not so good at play ball with politics (he was supposed to allow the plane be produced also by other manufacturers, for the sake of "electoral engineering" - yep, it was already a thing, even back in those aulic days - and he did not fully appreciate the subtleties involved) than because of their perceived technical shortcomings.
I can't discuss the history or technology of the stealth bomber, but only relate my experience of seeing one. After 9/11 apparently some stealth planes visited my city. I saw the fighter a couple of times. The remarkable experience was being out in my back yard and hearing jet engines suddenly roar as if a switch had been flipped. I looked up and there was one of the bombers banking and climbing up. Apparently it had flown by at low altitude a little to the west of us. I hadn't heard a thing until it started the climb.
Good video. Makes you wonder what we have in our back pocket, not known to the public, that no one knows about. Strictly speaking, the B2 is old technology.
This and the F22 are pretty much the best stealth aircraft.Followed by the F35. Boeing is working on 6th gen fighters right now(which can be googled) We are also working on the FEL( Free electron Laser) which can also be googled.
@@seanfarley99 Nope... that was MANY years ago. I was lucky enough to be part of the design MANY aircraft... those were some of the most fun and satisfying experiences I ever had, hard to even call it work.
Great work..excellent presentation and timeline. I appreciate the work you did, and the way you presented quite a large ammount of information in a tight package. Again, thank you..you did all the Airframes proud. Excellent work.
The poster didn't do anything... This documentary was made by a TV studio for broadcast on discovery channel/history/national geographic etc. If you want to say thanks to the maker. You'll have to work out what team of people made it 😂
British WW2 bombers were not "hard to detect" as was suggested in the video. Their unique defensive capabilities stemmed from intense use of electronic countermeasures such as jammers (mandrel, tinsel, airborn cigar and others) and false targets ("window") which hampered German radars and radio communications. Yet, 5% loss of planes in every raid was considered low. Tough times...
Correct. Also the mosquito was small but had a long range payload (4,000lbs) comparable to a B17 (4,500lbs), which it usually brought to the target at 400mph at 50ft off the deck. Nothing could stop that. Also at 10:15, the video talks of chaff as if it were a recent development - as you’ve pointed out, “window” was British chaff, and was already being used twenty years prior by the British, which I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised at, seeing as we invented radar. It would stand to reason that we would invent the first countermeasures against it.
when I was first introduced to modern stealth planes I saw an show on what the Russian paper is all about, it was so different, I took the time to review an English translation of the paper.. It is not about bouncing radio waves back in a different directions, it is about lens'ing the radio waves. The best way I have seen it described is when you look at the shadow of your hand from the sun and you move your fingers together. At a certain point before your fingers touch, the shadow of your fingers touch.
After signing NDA's a model of the B-2 bomber was shown to Jack Northrop just prior to his death. He remarked"I knew there was a reason God was keeping me alive." The B-2 even shares the same 172 foot wingspan of Jack Northrop's YB-35 and jet powered YB-49 flying wing he designed and flew in the 40's.
How does that explain all the unidentified aerial phenomenon that the pentagon admits they have no idea what they are. People that have claimed to have witnessed UFOs in the past have always been labelled as tinfoil hat wearing lunatics. Finally the time is coming where the government will no longer be able to deny the truth of extraterrestrial or extra dimensional beings existing.
The B2 shows up, America's enemies do an effeminate hissy fit and scream, 'Oh my GOD!" (and get obliterated) and the B2 goes home. THAT'S the power of stealth technology, made possible by a free society.
This is thing is 3 decades old and is still scary to know how deadly this platform really is. Nothing is scarier than not knowing when and where death will be coming from. A smart plane with smart (possibly nuclear) bombs that has the signature of a goose.
I can already guest the nukes are stored in space satelites and can rain down on a specific target directly. No need for plains and it cant be trace where it was fired from.
The lack of air losses with the B-2 also has to do with the nature of the Iraqi technology. They had a lot, to be sure; but if your enemy knows all about it, you are still at a disadvantage.
The B-2 has been used elsewhere other Iraq. Also "Iraq technology" was state of the art Soviet/Russian anti-aircraft technology so only a little less advanced than what the US could expect to face if it went to war with Russia
Remember the humiliation when little Serbia shot down two of these pieces of subsonic junk with 30 year old Soviet AA missiles like dead ducks? They put up a sign at our embassy that said "Sorry, we didn't know they were invisible".
looks like a piece of origami, saw it over here in Suffolk UK going through it's acrobatic flying, couldn't work out what on earth it was at first and just stood and watched for a while and then it just flew up and off, fascinating
The B-2, A massively costly project, but an example of projects that the military sometimes gets right. A salute to Jack Northrup whose YB-49 was the inspiration and a result of his Genius,
Your English is good. This technology is from crashed UFO's, jet engine are just used for take off, then goes into some type exotic running method. Russian has beautiful fighter jets aircraft. It's such a shame that Russia and America are both Christian countries, just propaganda. Can't understand how Russia can be Allie's with China. Merry Christmas from Canada 😁
My father designed the invisi-plane which was a miracle of science. It was invisible to eye and radar or any other detection method. As soon as we can work out where we left it we'll be rich :)
What's sad about your statement is that "They" should be "US" in a honestly represented Gov. But in our pathetic reality, "They" are the scumbags who use taxpayer funds to develop things to become disgustingly rich, and even worse, instigate wars in order to falsely justify the use of these weapons !
Nukes are just great !! They are so inexpensive to develop & build & maintain..... they do wonders for the ecosystem...... they mutate our DNA in wonderful ways..... they get lost and stolen so anyone has a shot at getting 1...... and could even be a great story if the right set of mistakes take place and one goes off accidentally. (or even accidentally on purpose : a.k.a. false-flag) What's not to like ? Build 5,000 more..... it's not like we need the $ for roads or schools.
Do you think US Army does purchase an aircraft based on Yotube video? LOL Also I think this video was made after this aicraft was many years in service.
That moment when you see all those really old computers and realize that all of them put together come nowhere close to the computing power of your cell phone.
Of course, your cell phone is specialized to let you call and text friends and play Angry Birds, while these are specialized to let you bomb enemy targets while you play Angry Birds.
With cell phones you need to be able to develop things fast, so you need a ton of abstraction layers. You can't take 10 years to develop an app, the phone will be totally outdated by then. Those abstraction layers take a huge toll on the hardware power available, but you can develop very fast. Different mindset.
Great for the times but do we still need to be 8 times more powerful than the entire globe to shoot Toyota pickups? The bridges in my city look ready to drop. You need a lunar rover on the pot holed roads. The water mains and gas mains are nearing a hundred years old. People need massive retraining in a post industrial unemployment disaster. 40 million people are no longer counted as unemployed for "reasons" to make some politician get elected. The threats are internal today.
Jonathan Astles or the people at Lockheed who developed the SR71. The plane that made this possible. The plane that, to this day, still holds height and speed records no other plane had touched 50+ years later lol.
My late grandfather who raised me was a member of the B-2 team that built it I own his certificate ❤ He was very very proud of it and actually got very emotional when it was brought up. I will always hold this dear to my heart and speak his legacy.
That’s really interesting. Good if you to hold that so dear.
Man, I miss such productions. Simplistic, but with reasonable historical context, simple understanable demonstrations, soothing unimposing background music, easy to understand lector.....no heavy metall, no drama.... just enough details to get somebody hooked into subject
All that smoke and splash is to cover up how thinly written many of the newer formulaic videos are
That was the old school history channel, which was great. Now they just play Pawn Stars 24/7
They truly don’t make them like this anymore 😔😕
Jack Northrurp in his wheelchair in his late 80s, was taken to a secret location.. probably out at Groom Lake and they showed him a large scale model during the building phase of the B2.. he held it in his hands shaking and he said "Now I know why God has kept me alive so long..." Just writing this bring tears to my eyes.. Jack Northrop is one of my hero's in this life
i saw a film of him not too long before his death watching as they rolled out a b2 from the hanger, he did get to see one finished before he died, and i still think politics kept the flying wing from being perfected way back in the 40s when he had it flying.
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I'm not sure why I'm replying here. But I guess just information. This stealth plane was taken down in Serbia NATO's attack 1999
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The pioneering men and women of aviation indeed. Great memory. Thank you.
As someone else had said.. I too wish all the military docs were like this!
No annoying LOUD music/sound effects but still maintains exciting entertainment. very informative & fascinating!
Thank you!
See, that's what really makes a documentary a pile of bullshit; "entertainment". A documentary is not supposed to be fucking entertaining a bunch of brain dead Soft-drink slurping couch potatoes.
The ones you're referring to are the documentaries of the 2000's which largely don't have any info in them and have rock music in them. The ones you want are from the 70s 80s and 90s.
You must have been born in the mid 2000's
I like the narrators voice in the one about the SR-71 and F-117 documentaries.
I had small scale models of every military aircraft from WWII to present. Fixed wing and helicopters. Some I've flown in, and some I watched up close. Even though I spent most of my time on the ground in the Army. Watching these aircraft live are memories I'll never forget. For those who built these great machines. You did good.
During the early 1980’s, I was a crew chief on the B52 G & H models. When the B-2 came out many of us were absolutely impressed. This video has answered many questions we had about it. Of course we may not truly know if the cones really are underneath the radar absorbing skin. Great video and the narrator is excellent at telling us the story!
Only impressed???? I would be astounted😂🤣
Thank you for your service!
@@zochiangastounded??
This documentary from 2009 is better than some from today in 2020.
That's only 11 years ago..it's not likes it's from 1950?
@@RamblesBrambles 1. this is a seriously old comment
2. shit's gotten a lot better in the time between 2009 and now
@@christianzhouzheng NO. The world's gotten much worse since 2009. Not surprising this is better.
It's also worse than some. What's your point?
@@jayebejer7431 technology has improved since 2009. You’d have to be suffering from some kind of brain disorder to say otherwise.
Even in 2023 it’s kinda mind blowing that this plane exists, and works so well. Not to mention that it was built in the ‘80s.
This is such an amazing and strategic bomber B-2. My DH was supposed to work on this when he passed away. I am sure he would have been so thrilled to have been a part of this endeavor.
Isn't it better he was part of a killer invention...?
Still the most amazing and coolest looking machine to ever fly.
Its a bad machine. Love it. But the sr-71 is still the cool looking plane in my book.
F117 Nighthawk
Bad machine but I vote for the sr71
Yup -- although, you would have to admit, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has to be a close second! Haha It is still the fastest jet in existence!
My late grandfather who raised me was a member of the B-2 team that built it I own his certificate He was very very proud of it and actually got very emotional when it was brought up. I will always hold this dear to my heart and speak his legacy.
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You just copied the other guys story 🤣
My grandmother grandfather grandson lil cousin was the first person to fly it when it was built
When I was in preschool I saw one fly over head. One of my most memorable times. I lived around 45 miles from an air base and that was around 20 years ago.
I live about 30 miles from Whiteman AFB where most of the B-2s are based, and get to see them fly over quite often. Beautiful and scary at the same time. You don't hear them coming until they turn away and start to climb because the exhaust is on the top side of the wing.
I was in Warrensburg for about a month and I got to see it everyday, it gave me chills every time! So bad ass!!
I got to Visit Whiteman Airforce base in 1991 while the B2 program was just getting going. It was pretty amazing hearing the thunder
as they lifted off the runway and into the sky. But in all honesty i was more intrigued by the several A-10 Warthogs that were parked
right up close to the buildings.
I’ve never come within 10,000 square miles of one of these planes, but my uncle in Kansas City once saw one flying over. He said, “it was easy to see and recognize. I watched it, but it never made a sound.”
Errrm... That wasn't the B-2, that was the TR3B.
Veldtian1 Or it could’ve just been a dude on a hang glider
Did you listen to when they fly? They are invisible at night and they don't see them coming because they fight mostly at night.
Love those US aircraft documentaries. I always put those on when I go to sleep. Works fast and everytime!
A couple of corrections with regards to the Mosquito. It was made out of wood because of the shortage of aluminium, the stealth factor was an added bonus. It was not just flown at night, missions were 24/7 and ranged from sub hunter killer when fitted out with a repeater 3 pounder cannon, pinpoint target daylight bomber/raider as well as the role of pathfinder for night time bomb runs, Video really underplays what an incredible airplane the Mosquito was..
Very popular with Lancaster crews marking their specific
targets, German mass housing to maximise the extermination of as many German civilians as possible.
A very British strategy, unparalleled barbarity.
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Or maybe this was a documentary about the b2 bomber 🤔
@@williambennett26 anparalleled? You're acting like those attacks came out of nowhere
@@williambennett26 and the v2 rockets weren't barbaric at all?
I seen the B-2 flyover in Washington D.C. on July 4th,2019..it was totally bad ass,this piece of art in the sky was so graceful it was between unreal and point blank to reckon with..Thumbs up..
Incredible innovation!!!
@@benjohncerezo - Truly so..
ya cause they finally found a target to drop a bomb on lol
This is great to watch
My dad was in the Canadian Air Force and flew on the mosquito. I've always been fascinated
Everytime I see the B-2 in a flyover I get chills of pride
The DH-98 Mosquito is absolutely awesome! My Gramps flew DH-98 in the RCAF. Flt G.H.Gibbs a true hero.
@Lalo Lalo As a Brit I have to say credit where it is due, Jack Northrop was a visionary when it came to flying wing design.
15:40 the mosquito flew during the day as well it was a multi purpose fighter bomber, and is credited with some the most difficult raids of most ww2 bombers.
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Please list the raids that were done for anything other than propaganda.
@@nickdanger3802 it was an extremely useful and versatile aircraft. The whole point was that it was a constant thorn in Germany’s side. Picking, prodding, hitting and running; like an actual Mosquito. To make out like it’s operations were just for propaganda is completely wrong and missing the point. Plus Britain in WW2, you know the country that scraped by on rations, lacked resources a lot of the time and relied on resourcefulness to get through? They would hardly keep the plane operational purely for propaganda that’s just a dumb statement. The fact is Britain saw an unconventional design and put it to use. It was guerrilla tactics in the air. If you don’t understand how annoying and draining that is for an enemy you don’t really understand warfare.
@@MrTWICETHEPRESHA It was unique in design and manufacture.
Did it do anything that could not have been done by a P38?
@@nickdanger3802 you know what probably not. Both were similar and I have no doubt it could of done what the Mosquito could have. But that’s still missing the point. The Lightning didn’t. The British didn’t have the Lightning and it was an expensive plane for the time. Britain wouldn’t have been able to afford to make many under license. Instead they had a lot of wood. Think about this. The US with unlimited wealth and materials, far from any danger of having production lines bombed, created a great aircraft. Britain created an aircraft equally good from wood, quickly and under constant threat of destruction. It was a make do attitude and was a mark of technological ingenuity that it turned out as one of the best aircraft of the war. All this aside, check anywhere online and the Mosquito is regarded as the better all around aircraft and a lot more versatile. Obviously you can’t believe everything you read but it’s credentials are legitimate and not based on ‘propaganda raids’.
One of the best stories about the B-2 has to do with the open display of the aircraft's silhouette at the entrance to the Northrup plant. The outline of the secret plane had been there for all to see for quite sometime but because the media did not know the shape of the bomber, they were unaware that they walked over it every-time they visited the plant - it was in the walkway at the entrance in different colored stones. When the plane was finally shown to the public someone tipped the media off about the existing display on the walkway. If you look at the photo of the B2 At the hangar you can also see that they painted the star on the ramp by using the silhouette of the B2 there also. The workers must have had a great time knowing that was out there all that time and nobody had a clue.
Now that is stealth
Biggest scam yet.
I was glued to my chair till the End !
Whatever the arguments, I just think this is one beautiful looking aircraft and I would love to see one fly.
having seen my first one fly back in 2003ish it was pure awesomeness. At the same time was also able to see one on the ground. although it was about 50 feet away, as it, b52, a10, f117, t38, u2 and b1b were always under armed gaurd. Meanwhile every other aircraft at the air show you could litterally touch, if not get inside of. anyways, pure awesomeness. another thing most people dont realize is the shear size of these. due to their shape, i think it throws people off that these things ARE bombers, thus have a massivie payload
stealthplane5 I have seen it it’s hard to explain so I’ll just say awesome
at our airshow in gaylord michigan they had one do a slow fly over. it was pretty neat. If the government is using this in air shows imagine what they have in the works now...
There was one turned up unexpected (by the public) at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, in 2018 :D
I went to an air show where one was scheduled to do a flyby, but it was so stealthy. I couldn't see it or hear it. Now THAT'S stealthy.
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Some things in various order...
Northrop first manned Flying Wing prototype, the N1M, dates from 1941 and it already was the successor of a lengthy series of scale models and aerodinamic testbeds.
The Horten's design cited by someone was incredibly good, but I really think that Jack and the Horten came to their flying wing designs independently.
The first version of Northrop's Flying Wing, the very first XB-35 without vertical fins, was already a pretty stealthy thing.
They had serious troubles following it during flight tests, so they designed the first radar reflectors to put on its downside and know what the damn plane was doing.
Which reminds me, a sphere is a good radar relector, but it is not the best reflecting geometrical shape, as it only reflects toward the radar the energy that falls exactly on the point perpendicular to it (more precisely, it behaves like point source with a power slightly inferior to the radiation density that it receives multiplied the area).
A much better shape is a catadioptric reflector, like the one given by three planes intersecting with 135 degrees solid angles (picture if you will a triangular piramid - aka tetrahedron - remove the faces, add its center and consider the triangles obtained connecting it to the four vertex; each of the four set of three planes so generated is a catadioptric reflector).
A catadioptric can reflect near 100% of the radiation it receives on its whole surface toward its source, from any direction (depending on the angle, it may take three reflections to do the trick, and nothing is ever 100% efficient, not even naked metal reflecting radar).
A catadioptric behaves like a thinly focusing, very high gain directional antenna targeting the radar with the power it receives from it.
As result a catadioptric the size of a basketball has roughly the RCS of a B-52.
(And some small examples of these are usually attached to F-35s when they have to mingle with civilian traffic, like when they participate to airshows; Thus, if someone's flashy radar can take an F-35 at an airshow, it is not so revealing).
Finally, when the YB-49 was cancelled, Northrop had just started testing a new electronic inertial navigation system - i.e. a fly by wire, I suppose with analog computing and maybe some early digital stuff - that was very promising about getting the yaw instability under control.
Personally, I agree with those that suspect that the program was cancelled more because Jack Northrop was not so good at play ball with politics (he was supposed to allow the plane be produced also by other manufacturers, for the sake of "electoral engineering" - yep, it was already a thing, even back in those aulic days - and he did not fully appreciate the subtleties involved) than because of their perceived technical shortcomings.
I can't discuss the history or technology of the stealth bomber, but only relate my experience of seeing one. After 9/11 apparently some stealth planes visited my city. I saw the fighter a couple of times. The remarkable experience was being out in my back yard and hearing jet engines suddenly roar as if a switch had been flipped. I looked up and there was one of the bombers banking and climbing up. Apparently it had flown by at low altitude a little to the west of us. I hadn't heard a thing until it started the climb.
Good video. Makes you wonder what we have in our back pocket, not known to the public, that no one knows about. Strictly speaking, the B2 is old technology.
Jonathan Robertson Tnx to the morons in media F35 and EMP are pretty much known.
@@Commentator541 hahaha
@Proloop Under You were doing so well... Fuck communism
This and the F22 are pretty much the best stealth aircraft.Followed by the F35. Boeing is working on 6th gen fighters right now(which can be googled) We are also working on the FEL( Free electron Laser) which can also be googled.
U talking mad shit for someone is nuking distance
I worked on the B2 Flight Control Computers and was extremely proud when I watched the First Flight of this beautiful aircraft...
MiklaDfar have you been working on it since?
@@seanfarley99 Nope... that was MANY years ago. I was lucky enough to be part of the design MANY aircraft... those were some of the most fun and satisfying experiences I ever had, hard to even call it work.
Hell yea haha i get to work on it everyday n it’s still running great for the most part haha
I was working on B-52s and KC-135s when they were developing these. Hydraulic, pneumatic, and inflight refueling systems.
Damn, i heard they recuit more than 10000 people to design the plane,you must be one of them
@@haidweng7948
I was a mechanic in the USAF.
What a beautiful jet !
oh yehh
It's not a jet. Clearly this guy tries to be funny, yet you guys don't realise what he just said and agree with his bullshit.
@@excelsian512 what is it
I mean, its a bomber jet, it is part of the jet class aircraft.
Thank you. I loved this documentary.
this is the type of documentary that I can fall asleep to
Great work..excellent presentation and timeline. I appreciate the work you did, and the way you presented quite a large ammount of information in a tight package.
Again, thank you..you did all the Airframes proud.
Excellent work.
The poster didn't do anything... This documentary was made by a TV studio for broadcast on discovery channel/history/national geographic etc.
If you want to say thanks to the maker. You'll have to work out what team of people made it 😂
Truly an incredible air craft until you experience the b2 up close in person you just can't imagine awsome this one is
I play, but my mind is on point! God bless America!
VERY cool looking jet!! LOVE IT
British WW2 bombers were not "hard to detect" as was suggested in the video. Their unique defensive capabilities stemmed from intense use of electronic countermeasures such as jammers (mandrel, tinsel, airborn cigar and others) and false targets ("window") which hampered German radars and radio communications. Yet, 5% loss of planes in every raid was considered low. Tough times...
The pilots also had the biggest testicles in the world. Fact.
Correct. Also the mosquito was small but had a long range payload (4,000lbs) comparable to a B17 (4,500lbs), which it usually brought to the target at 400mph at 50ft off the deck. Nothing could stop that. Also at 10:15, the video talks of chaff as if it were a recent development - as you’ve pointed out, “window” was British chaff, and was already being used twenty years prior by the British, which I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised at, seeing as we invented radar. It would stand to reason that we would invent the first countermeasures against it.
Incredible. Very informative.
when I was first introduced to modern stealth planes I saw an show on what the Russian paper is all about, it was so different, I took the time to review an English translation of the paper.. It is not about bouncing radio waves back in a different directions, it is about lens'ing the radio waves. The best way I have seen it described is when you look at the shadow of your hand from the sun and you move your fingers together. At a certain point before your fingers touch, the shadow of your fingers touch.
So maybe they used materials that would absord the radio waves instead of bouncing it back. Maybe they used wood. Maybe Google knows.
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The b2 was literally jack northrops dream...he advocated really hard for the use of the flying wing...even developed passenger plane flying wings..
After signing NDA's a model of the B-2 bomber was shown to Jack Northrop just prior to his death. He remarked"I knew there was a reason God was keeping me alive." The B-2 even shares the same 172 foot wingspan of Jack Northrop's YB-35 and jet powered YB-49 flying wing he designed and flew in the 40's.
What an amazing fighter jet.😀
Remember all those flying saucer sightings that gave rise to alien rumours in the past? These are the results!
This has always been my theory
@@Carlos.Da.CreaToR ole toms been watching some "videos" output by the government lol
I agree it’s definitely 👆 technology
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How does that explain all the unidentified aerial phenomenon that the pentagon admits they have no idea what they are. People that have claimed to have witnessed UFOs in the past have always been labelled as tinfoil hat wearing lunatics. Finally the time is coming where the government will no longer be able to deny the truth of extraterrestrial or extra dimensional beings existing.
This great Grandma is in Awe
The B2 shows up, America's enemies do an effeminate hissy fit and scream, 'Oh my GOD!" (and get obliterated) and the B2 goes home. THAT'S the power of stealth technology, made possible by a free society.
I grew up in Missouri, not too far from Whiteman and was lucky to get to see these fly every now and then
The B-2 was just the beginning. The B-21 Raider is the next step in the stealth bombers’ evolution.
This is thing is 3 decades old and is still scary to know how deadly this platform really is. Nothing is scarier than not knowing when and where death will be coming from. A smart plane with smart (possibly nuclear) bombs that has the signature of a goose.
Most likely china and not with bombs but a virus bigger then Co VI ----- 2 yrs later ...
I am blown away how much info has been declassified on this.
Imagine what they got now, that's not declassified...
bRandomFPV What are you on? I’d like some
@bRandomFPV What about metal being grown, an organic vehicle. Then one step further a self realizing organic vehicle. Not long now my friend :)
@bRandomFPV Alex Jones' c** you mean?
Drones pretty much. Why put a pilot in danger when they can fly it from home
I can already guest the nukes are stored in space satelites and can rain down on a specific target directly. No need for plains and it cant be trace where it was fired from.
As incredible as it is. The b52 will outlive it!
your probably right
There are always counter measures to counter anti radar detection measures. Its a never ending technological duels.
All these fancy features and yet it can still be defeated by the mark one eyeball /s
The lack of air losses with the B-2 also has to do with the nature of the Iraqi technology. They had a lot, to be sure; but if your enemy knows all about it, you are still at a disadvantage.
The B-2 has been used elsewhere other Iraq. Also "Iraq technology" was state of the art Soviet/Russian anti-aircraft technology so only a little less advanced than what the US could expect to face if it went to war with Russia
hey chistian my dog is chewwy and he say han solo likes living like a cowboy
Remember the humiliation when little Serbia shot down two of these pieces of subsonic junk with 30 year old Soviet AA missiles like dead ducks? They put up a sign at our embassy that said "Sorry, we didn't know they were invisible".
Testing and retesting is the answer to conquering all the problems of radar
looks like a piece of origami, saw it over here in Suffolk UK going through it's acrobatic flying, couldn't work out what on earth it was at first and just stood and watched for a while and then it just flew up and off, fascinating
paper air plane
I get to see the B2 everyday. Accompanied with some A-10 warthogs.
@Marlon Quintana-Nieto whiteman air force base
Awesome!! Those A-10 Warthogs are bad ass too, but the Stealth is incredible, so glad it is ours!
Почему-то вспомнилось:
"Беги, дядь Мить"🤔
The B-2, A massively costly project, but an example of projects that the military sometimes gets right. A salute to Jack Northrup whose YB-49 was the inspiration and a result of his Genius,
They took the design from the nazis
@@carlossolis7218 false
We should thank the Germans also. They had some amazing scientists.
They found german prototypes years before so...
Absolutely awe inspiring when seen up close, unreal.
Badassery right there! Thanks Tim and Tracy 👍🇺🇲
my dad is in this video!!!! i too will soon be working on this plane :D
Ma grab wow that's ta pal
Brandon Keeton Did you follow through your plans?
How's it goin'?
How did everything go?
when i was young i was eciting about this plane today it still hold on
Ps Im russian so im not good in english
@Adolf Hitler(Oh dear, what a twat) How can someone he a communist in the post-communist era? Good grucking fief.
Me to Comrad , i am American. God Bless the planet and god bless Kanye!
As long as you’re trying mate all that matters
Your English is good. This technology is from crashed UFO's, jet engine are just used for take off, then goes into some type exotic running method. Russian has beautiful fighter jets aircraft. It's such a shame that Russia and America are both Christian countries, just propaganda. Can't understand how Russia can be Allie's with China. Merry Christmas from Canada 😁
Ross what the fuck did i just read
I love the B2!
why
My father designed the invisi-plane which was a miracle of science. It was invisible to eye and radar or any other detection method. As soon as we can work out where we left it we'll be rich :)
B1, B2, F117, F-22, F-35. all look like the future to me.
They're all last century designs and tech.
BRAVO, B2!
Never forget Americans, you are the land of the free, and home of the brave! 🇺🇸
Hahaha
@@ivandjuranovic1301 Feb 2 2020 Troll
@@JW-bx8ih He's just jealous
Good video and damn I’m proud to be American!
Brilliant invention.
For the price we expect technical wizardry, and we get it👍
Excellent documentary film, many thanks :)
You're welcome :)
Thanks for video, that what i need!
The information being presented is at constant war with the music which is hilarious.
may God bless you all!
newage hippy. Become a good mens.on this dark eart. musis is in hand's of eluminatie.
If they letting us know that we have this, I can only imagine, what they aren't telling us they have.
That's right, there is a time to hold them and a time to unleash them! Ask, what is hidden at Area 51, surprise!
What's sad about your statement is that "They" should be "US" in a honestly represented Gov. But in our pathetic reality, "They" are the scumbags who use taxpayer funds to develop things to become disgustingly rich, and even worse, instigate wars in order to falsely justify the use of these weapons !
@@marby602 I mean do you want them to stop developing nukes as a counter to other nation have nukes?
Nukes are just great !! They are so inexpensive to develop & build & maintain..... they do wonders for the ecosystem...... they mutate our DNA in wonderful ways..... they get lost and stolen so anyone has a shot at getting 1...... and could even be a great story if the right set of mistakes take place and one goes off accidentally. (or even accidentally on purpose : a.k.a. false-flag)
What's not to like ? Build 5,000 more..... it's not like we need the $ for roads or schools.
Yeah with 500 million every year there definitely not telling us a crap ton
Thank you for help today
Who cares about the price, it's awesomeness that counts
33:17 needs to be its own video. someone should bass boost this and get the lossless music
INSANE ENGINEERING.
SR72.🇺🇲
B2🇺🇲
A10🇺🇲
That said, this is my favorite plane of all time.
you have,nt seen nothing yet !
Oh wow... Their aerodynamic diagram at 29:10... Who was the technical advisor on that one??
Oh... Man... And the "ailerons" at 34:15... Such basic stuff, any 10 year old kid with an interest in planes would know better.
I don't think there's no such thing as ailerons, ufo's aren't from other planets.
طائره قويه وجميله ورائعه جداً جداً 🤍💐 ما شاء الله
This was new to me, very interesting, thanks for sharing!
My family has been busy. 😎🇺🇸
Don't leech of the success of others.
beautiful movies
The Mosquito didn’t just fly at night, it was bomber commands policy for night time raids. At least do your research.
I literally just "WOOOHOOOOed" like Rick flair.
WHY?
Bloody fantastic
Very informative, but it plays like a promotional production. Was this made by the plane's manufacturer, or the DOD?
Do you think US Army does purchase an aircraft based on Yotube video? LOL Also I think this video was made after this aicraft was many years in service.
@Proloop Under Skunkworks I think is exclusive to Lockheed Martin, so not possible, as b2 is made by Northrop Grumman.
"groundbreaking" Great pun for a bomber!
Underrated.
Powerful U.S. military👍👍👍💪💪💪
I still can’t get over the fact that it’s never even been DETECTED!
well, at least not that they will admit to ...
It’s never been tasted against A major super power!!??
Like China or Russia😏🤫
@@JacobRubioJunior669 they still wouldnt detect it. its technology is FAR better than china's or russia's
Like this video just one thing the mosquito flew day and night missions speed was its primary defense the Germans hated the thing
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Can you like,use the words in a way that your sentence makes sense?
your lack of punctuation is criminal.
The German Horton HO9 flying wing bomber design is too lit 🔥
b-2 is amazing so the b-21 must be a god vehicle.
not vehicle ,instead aircraft
Yes I fucking drive a b21 bomber to my local Subway
That moment when you see all those really old computers and realize that all of them put together come nowhere close to the computing power of your cell phone.
Of course, your cell phone is specialized to let you call and text friends and play Angry Birds, while these are specialized to let you bomb enemy targets while you play Angry Birds.
With cell phones you need to be able to develop things fast, so you need a ton of abstraction layers. You can't take 10 years to develop an app, the phone will be totally outdated by then. Those abstraction layers take a huge toll on the hardware power available, but you can develop very fast. Different mindset.
Modern "HUD" tech is pretty crazy! Just doesnt need as much processing power as snapchatting you bits to some random!
Love it! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The REAL shape of aircraft....and the Horten brother knew it.
@soaringtractor I even know why White Sands is called Edwards.
19:27 Oh lawdy, an american documentary that actually explains how things work instead of just bragging they "make big boom!".
Yeah but it makes big boom too
Done in late '90s, last era when american documents were actually.... documents.
It's not Trump productions , duh
THIS B-2 BOMBER WITH ALL ITS CAPABILITIES SENDS CHILLS THROUGH MY BODY, SIMPLY AWESOME EARTH SHATTERING FIREPOWER .. GO USA !
Great for the times but do we still need to be 8 times more powerful than the entire globe to shoot Toyota pickups? The bridges in my city look ready to drop. You need a lunar rover on the pot holed roads. The water mains and gas mains are nearing a hundred years old. People need massive retraining in a post industrial unemployment disaster. 40 million people are no longer counted as unemployed for "reasons" to make some politician get elected. The threats are internal today.
It’s more of protection against the possibility of fighting an enemy with more sophisticated warfar technology than pickups with MGs
@@boxedferrotinc2290 The possibility of a more sophisticated enemy? Who,The United Federation Of Planets?
You can shoot a Toyota and it will still run
'In the history of flight, there has never been a plane more ground-breaking than the B2'
Wright brothers might have a slight issue with that!
Jonathan Astles or the people at Lockheed who developed the SR71. The plane that made this possible. The plane that, to this day, still holds height and speed records no other plane had touched 50+ years later lol.
You might say Orvill and Wilbur kicked down the door.
@@cavalry1213Yes.