remember that B-2 that crashed in guam? v. HOLY ISH

http://www.aeronautics.ru/img001/s37berkutlarge.jpg
That plane is actually unstable. Can’t be flown without the computer. Makes it maneuver like a insert cunning simile.

Exactly, computer assisted. The pilot flies the plane but the computer decides exactly how the control surfaces move to keep the plane in the air. So when a sensor gives the computer the wrong information the computer assists the pilot right into the ground. :slight_smile:

Regardless of your experience, this is right from the air force report on the crash:

The onboard computer believed the bomber was pointed slightly downward on takeoff roll and rolling 10-12 knots faster than its actual speed.
These two errors set off a chain of events that caused the bomber to crash.
First, the faulty airspeed indication caused the bomber to depart the runway about 1,450ft sooner than normal. During the early rotation, the incorrect angle of attack data caused an uncommanded, 30-degree pitch-up. The bomber’s slow speed at this 1.6g-inducing angle caused the aircraft to stall, yawing until its left wingtip scraped the ground.

good thing there wasnt any nuclear tipped warheads on board this one

All of the technology we have and we can’t even get some cameras that can properly follow a moving target?

AFAIK, a crash like that couldn’t detonate one anyway

AFAIK this is like the F-117 which is aerodynamically unstable more so than the B2. The skin on the F117 actually has to actuate in various places to make it fly.

good thing those things are not expensive.