Interesting footage of Air-to-Air Refueling of a B-2 from a KC-135.
As already explained, +20-hour missions, routinely flown by B-2 stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base or RAF Fairford in UK (during an unusual overseas deployment), require several aerial refuelings.
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So…
… and if you so expert, why didn’t usaf appoint you as consultant?
The requirements to stealth a super-sonic highly maneuverable (9G+) multi-role fighter aircraft, and the requirements to stealth an inherently unstable sub-sonic Large Flying Wing whose primary concern is radar and heat signature invisibility.
could have followed technologly of bat- plane
that rumbling coasting roll is a nice factor to hear – the express – or long runs— no mufflers —down & dirty
So…
… and if you so expert, why didn’t usaf appoint you as consultant?
The requirements to stealth a super-sonic highly maneuverable (9G+) multi-role fighter aircraft, and the requirements to stealth an inherently unstable sub-sonic Large Flying Wing whose primary concern is radar and heat signature invisibility.
could have followed technologly of bat- plane
that rumbling coasting roll is a nice factor to hear – the express – or long runs— no mufflers —down & dirty