British Marine Reacts To Dumb Reason The US Lost A $1.4 Billion Aircraft

British Marine Reacts To Dumb Reason The US Lost A $1.4 Billion Aircraft

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[MrYabber]

11:57 hell no! That mechanic was in a world of trouble though!

[crackerjack]

The $1.4bil price tag is somewhat of a farce. Technically we did pay $1.4bil per airframe, but what actually happend is that DOD originally contracted Northrop for 50 B2's and each to be named after each state. Well the DOD and AF decided that we didn't need 50 and changed the order number. How the contract was written and the money having already been paid, caused each plane to be published as having a price tag of $1.4bil instead of the original ~$588mil each.

[Zhaleon]

I do not know everything but, stealth aircraft relies on computer controlled flyby wire system collecting data from a lot of sensors. It will be unflyable by coventional means because of the aircraft's shape (its typically not aerodynamically stable). Btw, the stealth aircraft was not shaped like that to look good but to deflect radar energy away. Those aircraft systems have redundunt systems to avoid problems how ever, sensors are a different issue, the system of the aircraft collects data from those sensors to decide on how to fly the aircraft so if the sensor is bad... Then that's it, you get a crash. One more thing, it is very hard to know if a sensor is broken because sometimes the sensors are half broken but it still works, then while you are using it, and then suddenly fails on you...

[gabemuldoon]

The sad thing is a lot of that money comes from taxes.

[mikemitchell]

It doesn't cost any extra fuel to cool air. If you think about it its like a suppressor for a rifle. A series of baffles to cool the gasses leaving the muzzle. You would just lose velocity in the end

[nunyabidness]

Another fun fact. The F117 uses the same code and components as the F16 for flight stability. When the 117 was developed, rather than create a whole new system, they just used the one that already worked and applied it to all three axis of flight.

[williamwells]

Really glad you keep making content. Love this channel. I'm s fellow brother in arms here in the US. much love from West Virginia. 3/75TH RLTW

[Yumums]

The B-2 uses special fuel that burns at a lower temperature, it has to use a special mixture to ignite it. The entire plane is fuel and munitions, everything that is not essential holds fuel, including both their wings. It leaks fuel naturally because it's impossible to seal it completely, so it's stuffed to the gills with fuel.

[drewpamon]

For reference a Nimitz class aircraft carrier costed $4.5 billion. So for the cost of 3 of these bombers you could buy a supercarrier.

[Lional]

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[mathewcaldwell]

Normally the B-2 has it's own air-conditioned hanger. They didn't that morning in Guam

[defftony]

Keep in mind that the condensation didn't directly take the plane down. The issue was that the maintenance crew failed to consider the impact of the condensation on the calibrations. While the plane itself can operate under any conditions, calibrations have to be done in a controlled environment (How controlled depends and will be specified in the TO instructions, so it's theoretically possible that the maintenance also weren't in trouble if the TO didn't account for condensation in the calibration instructions).

[wiserliving]

The moisture on the center didn't bring it down it was what caused the maintenance to miscalibrate it that brought it down and that was due to it being left out of its protecting hanger which is never supposed to do and so it got condensation during the rain storm in flight it wouldn't happen because it already be calibrated correctly

[williammills]

I was on this program for 15 yrs (1991-2006). This watet intrusiin problem was discovered during flight test. By the time this occurred all the flight test and initial cadre people were gone. This was completely avoidable but no one who knew what would happen were left to stop this tragedy. Sad indeed but at least no one was hurt...hope this won't happen again.🤷🏼‍♂️

[rednecknerd]

Truth be told the top secret cargo could be the true fault but we’ll never know

[kelseypurple]

It is crazy how often the weather destroys the latest, fancy technology

[PromptCriticalJello]

The flying wing design is unstable because it lacks a tail.
The best analogy i can think of is an arrow without fletchings. It will tumble rather than flying straight.
The computers gather data and make minor adjustments fast enough to keep it from flipping over and tumbling.
A human pilot simply cannot take in the small changes is angles and respond fast enough to keep it stable.

[bruticusmagnus]

They use dilithium crystals to keep the engines exhaust cool.

[jefftaylor]

It was multiple sensors that failed and being there is no tail or rudders the computers are needed to fly the aircraft!

[ehahn]

Ok so one plane lost after how many years of service? Sounds like a pretty small amount of loss over the lifetime of the model.