READ BEFORE COMMENTING: I rarely use the word 'Amazing' in my descriptions, but in this case, I thought it was fitting. Apparently so amazing that many people think it is fake or ai generated video, which it is NOT! I suggest that users read the full description of this video before posting ignorant comments about how fake the video is, or how the military would never allow this. We do this type of thing all the time for airshow flyovers. There is absolutely nothing fake about this video. And for those who don't know what a GoPro looks like and are saying there is not one, try looking in left hand at 0:34. Cell phone was brought out to use in right hand in addition. This footage is all from the GoPro! VIEW of FLYOVER from the GROUND: ruclips.net/video/s8eu9Q58nRQ/видео.html
@@mediamagikgroup One thing I noticed was it can achieve a very steep bank angle at a low altitude for an aircraft thats designed predominantly to deflect radar rather than for the best aero form
Thanks for mentioning this. For me, background music unrelated to the video destroys many videos with good content. I can never understand why they like to add music。
Even after being in service all these years the B-2 still looks like something from a Sci-Fi movie. And that T-38 is just plain sexy - one of the most beautiful jets ever made!
@mark__whitfield Since it's designed around the idea of evading radar, and doesn't even have a vertical tail fin, a computer is making constant micro-adjustments to keep it in flight.
This title is not misleading, really appreciate that as I wasn't actually expecting it to be this jaw dropping. This was goosebump and smiles inducing for me at least.
@@Ralf0815 Except the Horten plane never went into production. The only thing that plane and B-2 have in common is the rough shape. And the Horten was a terrible design, it had the pilot sitting jammed between the two jet engines, dooming him in the event of failure -which is exactly what happened on the test flight of the only prototype that flew. Engine caught fire, pilot burned, crash, done and over. B-2 is of course completely new technologies and design, there's no comparison.
A few years ago I was working in Grand Prairie, Texas. Right near Lockheed Missile and Control. Usual boring day. Then around sundown the sky suddenly faded to black, all the birds outside took off from the trees and there was an odd silence. I go outside and soon as I open the door I look up and there’s a B-2 right over my head. Extremely intimidating… so glad they’re ours and not our enemies.
Yeah dude I was living in Boerne Texas for the first year of my life age 19 years old trying to fuck Sarah the blonde with the multi million dollar cattle ranch daddy Later moved back to New York so that I could be safe from the military dad involved Went on to email the presidency about balloon angel wings skywalking goddess levitation for 12 years About five years ago the B2 flew over my house approximately 150 feet altitude Withered the hell out of all of the agriculture in the yard I believe they kkkall those things atomic vehicles I've been fighting tricklephoba since the witnessing of the quantum vehicle Literally right above my head melting my soul in the name of the pig illuminati
@spitbull2237 all the b2 has in common with the horton ho229 or whatever model it was the Germans made was that they're both flying wings, that b2 is 3 aircraft generations past the Horton prototype and then some.
@@joshshannon But let's be honest, without the spoils of war that were taken out of Germany, the B2 would certainly not have been realistic in 1989. The Horton and others had provided certain ideas 😉
@@RetiredLover If things continue in the direction of the last 20 years, 100 years from now will mostly just be brown people fighting and twerking on piles of burning trash.
It's how all aircraft formations look close up, with pilots constantly adjusting power, attitude, trim etc to keep station and maintain distance. The T-38 pilots had the trickier job.
@@Jackdaw5the b2 is the lead ship though, so they wouldn’t be as focused on station keeping as they would be on maintaining a standard rate of turn- I think corrections in bank angle are more due to natural instability of the jet
I believe that they are not so hard to fly/control because AI does all the heavy lifting in the control part. Without computer input, it falls from the sky, no matter the skill of the humans in the cockpit.
You would see this or the F-117 back in 1988 I would think I was looking at an alien craft. The nighthawk was in use around eight years before it was known to the public. I’m sure it was a massive ufo case.
Man, I'm so obsessed with this beautiful machine. It looks so… alien and futuristic. The fact that it was made in the 80s just blows my mind. Imagine what they kept in secret now.
Nothing is secret now. The workforce has huge numbers of employees of Chinese decent that will feed all the details back to their motherland. Blood is thicker than water they say.
@@nachtaktiv1 Yeah, no. Just because they're both flying wings does not mean they are the same. I doubt the designers of the B-2 looked at the Ho-229 design sheet for more than an hour.
No matter how many times I look at a b2 whether in real life or in photos and videos, the thing still looks absolutely unreal for a plane designed in the 80s.
This is Spectacular, I just lost my Uncle Randy Barker one of the few apart of constructing this amazing bird. I had the opportunity to visit Lockheed and seen inside these buildings still activly supporting and maintaining these fleets. Bravo work he wuld be very proud. I just know it!
This is the first time I've seen video of the B-2 in actual flight. It amazes me how this thing can even fly. It looks like it came from the future, and it still doesn't look like it belongs in this timeline nearly 30 years later.
Impossible to tell if it's coming at you or flying away. You always get that with silhouette's, but the effect is really strong with this one. She's a beauty ! Loving this kind of footage.
Nice video. I grew up 20 miles from Whiteman. Only flew into there once during my whole Air Force career and i was so happy. Thanks for the memories of the view from the left observation position.
Wow! Incredible footage you have taken. In 2021 I was given the opportunity to go to Whiteman Air Force Base and be given a tour of their base. This was when I was in ROTC at my collage. At the base we go to meet the Base commander and they showed us some videos and pictures of what they do and then before we left the main building they confiscated all of our electronics. No phones, cameras, key fobs, anything with a battery we had to put in the plastic bin. After that they took us on a bus and drove us out to the hangers and went into the Spirit of Washington hanger ( all B-2's are named the "spirit of ____" ). We had 2 pilots with us and they showed us around the plane and they even allowed us to sit inside the cockpit. Now with this video of showing the B-2 fly up close it is still one of my most favorite bombers in the US Air Force.
I live near Camp Peary, Williamsburg VA. A military facility that nobody talks about . Always flying C-130, F-18’s,F-16’s,F-22’s Chinook, Black Hawks V-22 and one early cloudy night illuminated by the city’s light I saw this quiet silhouette of low flying B-2 going nearby. Scary and impressive view. I was in awe 😮🫥😱👍
I went to w&m and never heard of any military installation in Williamsburg (unless you consider lots of old people as military assets…). Just looked up Camp Peary - technically it’s in York County/near Williamsburg, but wow. Very cool, never would have thought “the farm” was right next door. Learn something new everyday!
Its crazy to think when on the ground they look perfectly in formation with each other and looks so easy. But this video really shows how much a pilot has to adjust to fly in formation. Lots of work and skill go into flying these machines. Props to the pilots
Wow! I would have never believed it flexed that much....instantly all i thought of was a manta ray! This is what more youtube content should be, meaning Quality content all around. Great Post
Did you notice that the control surfaces were fluttering in opposite direction to the flexing? This necessity is why the thing is not controllable without computer assistance. Pilots simply can’t make that many adjustments that quickly.
@markdudley3831 possibly a trick of looking thru the 38s canopy, along with the burbles in the air....but to me it flexed like looking out over a wing on a standard airliner
Super cool. I’m not a big plane guy, but happened to be driving through Chicago on a cross country trip on the day of the Chicago Air Show at Navy Pier and decided to swing a bit out of the way and check it out. Well, they showed off all kinds of cool planes, but then there was a lull in the action and people were just talking to one another going “what’s going on, why are there no planes? Is the show over?”. Suddenly you heard this big jet whoosh overhead and looked up to see the enormous silhouette of a B-2 flying directly over you at an incredibly low altitude just above the tallest building on the pier, all while flying incredibly, incredibly slowly. What was amazing to me was that you could not hear it AT ALL when it was coming and not 5 seconds after it passed the pier, it was barely audible. Anyway, the announcer spent a bunch of time talking about “acoustic stealth” tech on the B-2 and it totally blew my mind that I hadn’t even considered the concept of stealth tech being in the realm of acoustics. Man…. All I can say is that if you were the enemy, you wouldn’t have much time to figure out that a B-2 was directly overhead, much less that it had already released its payload…. Amazing stuff.
I read that it sends supersonic waves to the ground so that you can't hear it as it flies over you. Not sure I have that exactly right, but to not hear it like you experienced is wild.
@@niece7959 man, wouldn’t surprise me! It was a super cool experience. While it was “quiet” for a jet, it was certainly audible but just the way that it went silent->audible->silent that quickly and at that range (maybe 300-500ft above ground?) was crazy. Definitely was not expecting it. That experience has turned me into somewhat of an airplane “enjoyer” and I’ve been lucky to see one of the last B-29’s still flying at a local airshow because I remembered how cool the Chicago airshow was and decided to go!
i spotted a b2 in my rear view mirror once. it looked like a pencil line drawn in the sky. no clue how i keyed in on it but it was really cool to see. we opened the sunroof in time for it to go over us. one of the coolest sights.
Howard Hughes made some planes too! Government dragging him before them spruce goose it flew using materials available. Up there with the Wright Brothers. People that defy logic.
I know it's not fake video, that's for sure; my house is in the background for the last 10 seconds. I finished up my AF career 20 years ago at Whiteman, and even though the B2 still shakes the windows when taking off on runway 19, I've never grown tired of that bird.
Awesome video.....crazy that this concept was developed in the 40's. Now we really need to see the B1 (Bone) in flight. That aircraft looks like a doomsday machine, standing static on the ground it appears to be going supersonic.
Thanks so much for posting this! Both such beautiful airplanes! My dad and I both worked for Northrop for 27 years each. T-38/F-5 program one of the most successful in history! 31 countries bought and flew the F-5. I was on the B-2 program in the late 80’s. Magnificent aircraft!
I had one of these fly past me whilst I was airborne, because I was flying in Southern England it really wasn't something I was expecting to see and as it was initially coming towards me it looked just like a crack on the canopy getting bigger, I had to keep looking to figure out what it was as it just looked so weird, then it turned and became clear it was B-2, this was about twenty years ago, weird sight to see air to air.
My family has the privilege of seeing the B2 fly pass every January 1 when they open the rose parade. The B2 will flyover our house to go back to their base. It’s an awesome sight and sound. A couple years ago they didn’t have the B2 but the B1, it’s still cool bust just not the same.
I saw a B2 fly 250 ft over my car in the middle of a desert once and it blew my mind! Goosebumps! It was epic. Words can’t describe what I felt seeing that badass piece of aviation. Unreal cool. 🔥💯🔥
The T-38's are rock steady throughout the run with their high wing loading compared to the B-2, which is displaying the exact opposite characteristics with its low wing loading at near empty weight. The notchy/ballooning turns it makes are amazingly mild considering it has virtually no stability surfaces and those being computer controlled. Reminds me of my first pattern work in a 152! Great vid!
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Jackson et al ) describes the B-2 as reportedly being agile with handling that is "fighter-like". I'd be curious to see this in real life and how well this statement bears up to scrutiny. It certainly seems less stable the the T-38s in the roll axis but it's hard to tell given the camera angles and distances and the inevitable turbulence so close to the ground.
@@LilMissMurder3409 Absolutely agree... there are so many variables... including many we'll never know like control feedback and response to input within the flight envelope that I almost didn't comment 😀I assume the pilot was hand flying it without any extra nannies due to the close formation and distance to civilians. It's nothing short of amazing that it's lower flight envelope even includes those maneuvers!
I remember when an astronaut said that the space shuttle flew "like a brick". The B2 looks a little squirrely. I imagine it takes a special kind of pilot to handle her. 👍
A pair of B-2's out of Whiteman did a flight over Springfield Mo. right after the Covid crisis to salute the local health care workers. One was overhead about 20,000 ft. the other was loitering around 1000 ft. flew right over my house. What an awesome sight, a sleek monster just overhead. Never forget it.
I've never seen one in flight like this. I can see why people would report witnessing UFOs or alien spacecrafts in the sky. It looks very much like something out of this world and not of this timeline. It's very cool as hell.
Damn. I had to do a triple take because I really thought this was cgi. The super trimmed landscape on top of the go pro's stabilization made this look like a next gen flight simulator. Absolutely amazing footage. Thank you for sharing.
When I was in the F4 Phantom was called, "The Flying Rock" because if one of the two jets failed it not only had no glide characteristics but actually would "fall" TAIL FIRST! Can you imagine that? I watched it happen . . . It goes against everything you think about flight -
They just defy the brain to believe it can fly, yes wings and aero dynamics and all those wonderful computers and the fabulous engineers at Northrop that make it work , but seeing it up close like that and banking heavily it looks like it should just slide straight down to the ground. amazing piece of technology,
@@Jasoos_Jasonda Radar signature means cross-section. When you take an angular 2D shape such as a triangle and rotate it so its XY plane is perpendicular to a radar (or even your eyes), the cross sectional area of that shape reduces more per angle than if that shape were a circle or a square. Of course, the B-2 Spirit also uses radar energy absorbing materials, but the shape is extremely important.
My wife and I saw one last month do 3 fly overs in Michigan where we live at an air show and I just stood there in awe. It’s the most beautiful plane I have ever seen.
I think being on the gound at your home and suddenly you look up and see that illusive B2 flyby. That will be MADNESS :) Fugging AWESOME video and thank you for sharing for the world to see this beauty! 😁
From my understanding at least for civilian aircraft a part can not be replaced by anything that hasnt been approved by the faa for that aircraft. So even if the part is better and newer it cant be used unless its an experimental. But this may be different for military aircraft.
To me it almost looked like it was struggling to stay in the air. I think these are inherently unstable and HAVE to be stabilized by computer. Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can chime in with something more coherent 😀
READ BEFORE COMMENTING: I rarely use the word 'Amazing' in my descriptions, but in this case, I thought it was fitting. Apparently so amazing that many people think it is fake or ai generated video, which it is NOT! I suggest that users read the full description of this video before posting ignorant comments about how fake the video is, or how the military would never allow this. We do this type of thing all the time for airshow flyovers. There is absolutely nothing fake about this video. And for those who don't know what a GoPro looks like and are saying there is not one, try looking in left hand at 0:34. Cell phone was brought out to use in right hand in addition. This footage is all from the GoPro!
VIEW of FLYOVER from the GROUND: ruclips.net/video/s8eu9Q58nRQ/видео.html
Obscene
Have seen it at airshows in MD. Dad worked at Martin's in Middle River. Saw tons of airshows .
AI title generators hardly ever even uses "amazing"
That's exactly what AI would say
Ignore the trolls. This was a wonderful ride, thank you for sharing it.
Thanks for not ruining it with music .. stunning footage and raw sounds!
Glad you liked it!
@@mediamagikgroup One thing I noticed was it can achieve a very steep bank angle at a low altitude for an aircraft thats designed predominantly to deflect radar rather than for the best aero form
Thanks for mentioning this. For me, background music unrelated to the video destroys many videos with good content. I can never understand why they like to add music。
I was thinking "Wango Tango" by The Nuge!
@@Honey-Sanchez perhaps you should stick to not doing that too much
Thats a clearest footage of UFO I've ever seen!
Now I believe!
Underrated flying object
Oh Really? LOL
That wasn't a giant sunflower seed levitating?
to be fair the b2 was most likely reverse engineered tech originally.
Even after being in service all these years the B-2 still looks like something from a Sci-Fi movie. And that T-38 is just plain sexy - one of the most beautiful jets ever made!
SR-71 also looks like from a Sci-Fi movie
@mark__whitfield Since it's designed around the idea of evading radar, and doesn't even have a vertical tail fin, a computer is making constant micro-adjustments to keep it in flight.
B-21 takes the Sci-fi look to a whole new bubble, i mean level 😜
T-38 is a great plane. Easy to stall without you noticing if you're not careful
for me they look like planes nothing out the ordinary
As old as the B2 is now, it still looks like its from the future!!
Funny you should use those words. That's because it is.. 🤫
This title is not misleading, really appreciate that as I wasn't actually expecting it to be this jaw dropping. This was goosebump and smiles inducing for me at least.
Like a Manta Ray with a fish hanging around 😂
That's exactly what I thought too!
dang b2 and f22 is a wombo combo perfecto
Remora
Makes you wonder why conventional planes have tail wings and this one can fly without.
@@bobbykeene12 birds too. They just dont usually fly in bad wheather haha
This has got to be the most incredible footage of anything flying that I’ve ever seen in my life! Thanks for sharing
Some of the most uneventful footage I've seen that I couldn't look away from
You’ve never seen Starship huh? 🤪
OK, But why did they have to bomb that farmer's field?! Uncool.
@@Ralf0815 Except the Horten plane never went into production. The only thing that plane and B-2 have in common is the rough shape. And the Horten was a terrible design, it had the pilot sitting jammed between the two jet engines, dooming him in the event of failure -which is exactly what happened on the test flight of the only prototype that flew. Engine caught fire, pilot burned, crash, done and over. B-2 is of course completely new technologies and design, there's no comparison.
Imagine living there and you have two trainer Jets and a B-2 Fly under a thousand feet above your house Or Farm😂😂
I always felt the B2 looked like an alian spacecraft. Wow. It really does in this video.
Agree
@sgtsillyass1575ur mom
But have you ever seen an alien spacecraft?
@sgtsillyass1575
Oh one of those people
I think exactly the same!
Even the Shadows on the ground look sick
Nice shadows can be seen at 2:45 for those interested.
A few years ago I was working in Grand Prairie, Texas. Right near Lockheed Missile and Control. Usual boring day. Then around sundown the sky suddenly faded to black, all the birds outside took off from the trees and there was an odd silence.
I go outside and soon as I open the door I look up and there’s a B-2 right over my head.
Extremely intimidating… so glad they’re ours and not our enemies.
Yeah dude I was living in Boerne Texas for the first year of my life age 19 years old trying to fuck Sarah the blonde with the multi million dollar cattle ranch daddy
Later moved back to New York so that I could be safe from the military dad involved
Went on to email the presidency about balloon angel wings skywalking goddess levitation for 12 years
About five years ago the B2 flew over my house approximately 150 feet altitude
Withered the hell out of all of the agriculture in the yard
I believe they kkkall those things atomic vehicles
I've been fighting tricklephoba since the witnessing of the quantum vehicle
Literally right above my head melting my soul in the name of the pig illuminati
Hard to believe that the first flight was 17 July 1989; 35 years ago!
This thing still looks so futuristic.
A masterpiece.👌
I don't see anything
German Work
@spitbull2237 all the b2 has in common with the horton ho229 or whatever model it was the Germans made was that they're both flying wings, that b2 is 3 aircraft generations past the Horton prototype and then some.
Imagine what the new stuff looks like 👽
@@joshshannon But let's be honest, without the spoils of war that were taken out of Germany, the B2 would certainly not have been realistic in 1989. The Horton and others had provided certain ideas 😉
It amazes me that in less than a century we’ve gone from The Wright Flyer to THIS!
Imagine where man will be in another 100 years. Mars I’m sure. Colony on the moon?
Or….the Earth a glowing cinder from nuclear war.
@@RetiredLover If things continue in the direction of the last 20 years, 100 years from now will mostly just be brown people fighting and twerking on piles of burning trash.
@@MartintheTinmanB-2 first flight was in 1989
@@mr.ballstone1914 okay, I'm wrong
Far more achievement is going from the Wright Brothers to Concorde in 66 years.
Man.....INCREDIBLE!! Former Navy here....Air Traffic Control. Great steady shots and just the sounds of the wind and engines. Thanks. That was GREAT.
This view gives you a sense of just how difficult these birds are to fly. Beautiful, Majestic, and Deadly all at once.
It's how all aircraft formations look close up, with pilots constantly adjusting power, attitude, trim etc to keep station and maintain distance. The T-38 pilots had the trickier job.
How?
@@Jackdaw5the b2 is the lead ship though, so they wouldn’t be as focused on station keeping as they would be on maintaining a standard rate of turn- I think corrections in bank angle are more due to natural instability of the jet
I believe that they are not so hard to fly/control because AI does all the heavy lifting in the control part. Without computer input, it falls from the sky, no matter the skill of the humans in the cockpit.
@@miketobin2324 Fly by wire. It is still human controlled. There is no "AI" here.
10/10 footage. Absolutely delivered in all regards. What an intimidating profile. The B2 really is a thing of beauty.
Those are eerie looking aircraft.
nah
You would see this or the F-117 back in 1988 I would think I was looking at an alien craft.
The nighthawk was in use around eight years before it was known to the public. I’m sure it was a massive ufo case.
T-38's are weird, yes.
@@stejer211😂
@@NinjaZXRR for me they look nothing like an alien craft , noisy jet engine tech
What a beautiful bomber!! This is the first time I have ever seen it in flight this close!! 100%
they never gave us this close of a look before
You still haven’t, it’s a simulation.
Legend has it that it's invisible.
Man, I'm so obsessed with this beautiful machine. It looks so… alien and futuristic. The fact that it was made in the 80s just blows my mind. Imagine what they kept in secret now.
Nothing is secret now. The workforce has huge numbers of employees of Chinese decent that will feed all the details back to their motherland. Blood is thicker than water they say.
Yeah. Debris from crashed alien ships probably.
...you know its a german design from the 30's.... check the "Horton Nurflügler HO-229" for example...
Nothing. The country is broke. Did you miss the $35 Trillion in debt part?
@@nachtaktiv1 Yeah, no. Just because they're both flying wings does not mean they are the same. I doubt the designers of the B-2 looked at the Ho-229 design sheet for more than an hour.
No matter how many times I look at a b2 whether in real life or in photos and videos, the thing still looks absolutely unreal for a plane designed in the 80s.
This is Spectacular, I just lost my Uncle Randy Barker one of the few apart of constructing this amazing bird. I had the opportunity to visit Lockheed and seen inside these buildings still activly supporting and maintaining these fleets. Bravo work he wuld be very proud. I just know it!
This is the first time I've seen video of the B-2 in actual flight. It amazes me how this thing can even fly. It looks like it came from the future, and it still doesn't look like it belongs in this timeline nearly 30 years later.
I saw one fly over Denver. They apparently like to fly them near the ground.
WOW ! ! ! ! !!!!!!! This is amazing footage. That aircraft is hard to see even when you are right up next to it. It's hard to see from any angle.
What aircraft? I just see a T-38 flying around... :p
It’s almost as if it was built to be undetectable 😐
@@JonnyD3ath You mean the T-38, sure. I guess. Not sure what else you could be talking about... :)
@@KenMaerran well theres nothing else in the video, so of course it’s the T-38, right? Right?👀
I k ow what you mean but the other aircraft is similar hard to see 😅
Impossible to tell if it's coming at you or flying away. You always get that with silhouette's, but the effect is really strong with this one. She's a beauty ! Loving this kind of footage.
Nice video. I grew up 20 miles from Whiteman. Only flew into there once during my whole Air Force career and i was so happy. Thanks for the memories of the view from the left observation position.
Thank you for sharing this. I've been around 58 years and this is the first time I've seen one of these actually flying!
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow! Incredible footage you have taken. In 2021 I was given the opportunity to go to Whiteman Air Force Base and be given a tour of their base. This was when I was in ROTC at my collage. At the base we go to meet the Base commander and they showed us some videos and pictures of what they do and then before we left the main building they confiscated all of our electronics. No phones, cameras, key fobs, anything with a battery we had to put in the plastic bin.
After that they took us on a bus and drove us out to the hangers and went into the Spirit of Washington hanger ( all B-2's are named the "spirit of ____" ). We had 2 pilots with us and they showed us around the plane and they even allowed us to sit inside the cockpit. Now with this video of showing the B-2 fly up close it is still one of my most favorite bombers in the US Air Force.
I live near Camp Peary, Williamsburg VA. A military facility that nobody talks about . Always flying C-130, F-18’s,F-16’s,F-22’s
Chinook, Black Hawks V-22 and one early cloudy night illuminated by the city’s light I saw this quiet silhouette of low flying B-2 going nearby.
Scary and impressive view. I was in awe 😮🫥😱👍
I went to w&m and never heard of any military installation in Williamsburg (unless you consider lots of old people as military assets…).
Just looked up Camp Peary - technically it’s in York County/near Williamsburg, but wow. Very cool, never would have thought “the farm” was right next door.
Learn something new everyday!
Could almost be jealous.. 😊
@@fragdudeThe gate to Camp Perry was right at the exit from I-64 when I went to W&M. Looks like they may have rebuilt the exit.
That's amazing, I've never even heard of that airstrip before. Thanks for adding!
Seeing how this thing moves in the sky is so unreal! Right! Seeing f22 is one thing... But how a B2 handles the air is quite mind-blowing!
Batman called, he wants his aircraft back. 🦇
LOL
Would be so cool if the B-2 pilot's mask was a Batman mask.
Its crazy to think when on the ground they look perfectly in formation with each other and looks so easy. But this video really shows how much a pilot has to adjust to fly in formation. Lots of work and skill go into flying these machines. Props to the pilots
You can actually see a slight wing wobble on the B-2 , very nice video indeed!
Wow! I would have never believed it flexed that much....instantly all i thought of was a manta ray! This is what more youtube content should be, meaning Quality content all around. Great Post
Did you notice that the control surfaces were fluttering in opposite direction to the flexing? This necessity is why the thing is not controllable without computer assistance. Pilots simply can’t make that many adjustments that quickly.
Wow, thank you!
Didn't see no " flexing." You sure you're looking at it right !
@markdudley3831 possibly a trick of looking thru the 38s canopy, along with the burbles in the air....but to me it flexed like looking out over a wing on a standard airliner
@@markdudley3831the wing was absolutely flexing a ton. It is what stood out to me the most.
Super cool. I’m not a big plane guy, but happened to be driving through Chicago on a cross country trip on the day of the Chicago Air Show at Navy Pier and decided to swing a bit out of the way and check it out. Well, they showed off all kinds of cool planes, but then there was a lull in the action and people were just talking to one another going “what’s going on, why are there no planes? Is the show over?”. Suddenly you heard this big jet whoosh overhead and looked up to see the enormous silhouette of a B-2 flying directly over you at an incredibly low altitude just above the tallest building on the pier, all while flying incredibly, incredibly slowly. What was amazing to me was that you could not hear it AT ALL when it was coming and not 5 seconds after it passed the pier, it was barely audible. Anyway, the announcer spent a bunch of time talking about “acoustic stealth” tech on the B-2 and it totally blew my mind that I hadn’t even considered the concept of stealth tech being in the realm of acoustics.
Man…. All I can say is that if you were the enemy, you wouldn’t have much time to figure out that a B-2 was directly overhead, much less that it had already released its payload…. Amazing stuff.
I read that it sends supersonic waves to the ground so that you can't hear it as it flies over you. Not sure I have that exactly right, but to not hear it like you experienced is wild.
@@niece7959 man, wouldn’t surprise me! It was a super cool experience. While it was “quiet” for a jet, it was certainly audible but just the way that it went silent->audible->silent that quickly and at that range (maybe 300-500ft above ground?) was crazy. Definitely was not expecting it.
That experience has turned me into somewhat of an airplane “enjoyer” and I’ve been lucky to see one of the last B-29’s still flying at a local airshow because I remembered how cool the Chicago airshow was and decided to go!
Majestic AF
@ozanareyiz7773 yes it is
i spotted a b2 in my rear view mirror once. it looked like a pencil line drawn in the sky. no clue how i keyed in on it but it was really cool to see. we opened the sunroof in time for it to go over us. one of the coolest sights.
1:12 kind of makes sense why people thought there were UFOs back in the 1900s. I mean, it looks like how people would describe them.
The only distinguishing part of a UFO is that they’re faster and mostly silent.
Fantastic video. Not just capturing the B2 and the Talon but also the entirely sensation of being there in the plane with you! Well done!!
The best video ever of a B2 close flyby
If only Jack Northrop could have lived to see this. A true visionary.
The flight museum in Fort Worth has his A-12 prototype on display, quite the design
he did though
Damn I'm tearing up over here
they gave him special clearance to show it to him.
Howard Hughes made some planes too! Government dragging him before them spruce goose it flew using materials available. Up there with the Wright Brothers. People that defy logic.
seeing the B2 Spirit from that perspective was just brilliant, I loved every second of that video. Thank you for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I know it's not fake video, that's for sure; my house is in the background for the last 10 seconds. I finished up my AF career 20 years ago at Whiteman, and even though the B2 still shakes the windows when taking off on runway 19, I've never grown tired of that bird.
The B-2 reminds me of the old 1930s serials of Flash Gordan, and his rocket ship looks very much like the B-2 in profile.
Watching it, It is like watching a Buck Rodgers movie
I have photos of myself holding my son when he was about 2 years old when these were still top secret there's some of our most cherished photos.
Unlike Flash Gordon's rocketship, the B-2 (thankfully) doesn't have masses of sparks coming out of the rear !!!!
@@HKB-1 And the Iguanas fighting.
Horten!
Thank You for the post.
Amazing to see footage like this of the B-2. 👍🏻💙🍻🇺🇸😎
Thanks! 🔥👍
Awesome video.....crazy that this concept was developed in the 40's. Now we really need to see the B1 (Bone) in flight. That aircraft looks like a doomsday machine, standing static on the ground it appears to be going supersonic.
You're Right & The Wingspan Is The Same As The One Jack Northrop Designed! (Like #6)
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When they built these bombers they ended up costing more than they weight in gold! Thanks for posting this rare view.
Thanks so much for posting this! Both such beautiful airplanes! My dad and I both worked for Northrop for 27 years each. T-38/F-5 program one of the most successful in history! 31 countries bought and flew the F-5. I was on the B-2 program in the late 80’s. Magnificent aircraft!
I had one of these fly past me whilst I was airborne, because I was flying in Southern England it really wasn't something I was expecting to see and as it was initially coming towards me it looked just like a crack on the canopy getting bigger, I had to keep looking to figure out what it was as it just looked so weird, then it turned and became clear it was B-2, this was about twenty years ago, weird sight to see air to air.
My family has the privilege of seeing the B2 fly pass every January 1 when they open the rose parade. The B2 will flyover our house to go back to their base. It’s an awesome sight and sound. A couple years ago they didn’t have the B2 but the B1, it’s still cool bust just not the same.
The B-2 looks like something from a sci-fi movie. Great video. Thanks for posting this.
thats as close as ill ever get to seeing the flying wing in flight, thanks for sharing, what an experience, cheers!
I saw a B2 fly 250 ft over my car in the middle of a desert once and it blew my mind! Goosebumps! It was epic. Words can’t describe what I felt seeing that badass piece of aviation. Unreal cool. 🔥💯🔥
The T-38's are rock steady throughout the run with their high wing loading compared to the B-2, which is displaying the exact opposite characteristics with its low wing loading at near empty weight. The notchy/ballooning turns it makes are amazingly mild considering it has virtually no stability surfaces and those being computer controlled. Reminds me of my first pattern work in a 152! Great vid!
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Jackson et al ) describes the B-2 as reportedly being agile with handling that is "fighter-like". I'd be curious to see this in real life and how well this statement bears up to scrutiny. It certainly seems less stable the the T-38s in the roll axis but it's hard to tell given the camera angles and distances and the inevitable turbulence so close to the ground.
@@LilMissMurder3409 Absolutely agree... there are so many variables... including many we'll never know like control feedback and response to input within the flight envelope that I almost didn't comment 😀I assume the pilot was hand flying it without any extra nannies due to the close formation and distance to civilians. It's nothing short of amazing that it's lower flight envelope even includes those maneuvers!
Flight of the navigator...
That's what I was thinking 😊
not quite. they are betraying you on that issue. It's just a cardboard plane. Nothing like the ET ships they are lying to you about
Compliance! One of my favorite movies.
I do not leak, you leak!
I love that movie. Back when Disney had the backlot tour they had the props on display and I got to see them. 😊
Well done this footage is incredible! I've never seen this beauty from such a unique perspective. Thank you!
I remember when an astronaut said that the space shuttle flew "like a brick". The B2 looks a little squirrely. I imagine it takes a special kind of pilot to handle her. 👍
This is great. Many thanks to this pilot for sharing something that we will never get to see. This is incredible footage!
The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber looks similar to a giant Mantra Ray, a magnificent aircraft.
Thx a lot to the guy on the back seat for making such a vid possible ! Congrats from a former pilot.
Glad you enjoyed it!
“Woah! MiG-28s! No one’s been this close before!”
B-2 crew: “hold my beer.”
Thats some beautiful country!
A pair of B-2's out of Whiteman did a flight over Springfield Mo. right after the Covid crisis to salute the local health care workers. One was overhead about 20,000 ft. the other was loitering around 1000 ft. flew right over my house. What an awesome sight, a sleek monster just overhead. Never forget it.
From the UK that footage is something else🇬🇧🇺🇸🙏🙏
at 00:01 I thought it was a DCS video, it's impressive how realistic have become simulation games nowadays
Same!!
I thought it was DCS video until i saw the hand reflections in the mirror. Then I proceeded to check the comments to see who felt the same way.
The ground shadow at 2:47 awesome
Damn, RUclips's been recommending me B2 videos for the third time this week. Looks like I gotta learn more about them. Great footage, by the way.
I've never seen one in flight like this. I can see why people would report witnessing UFOs or alien spacecrafts in the sky. It looks very much like something out of this world and not of this timeline. It's very cool as hell.
That big bomber is so graceful - truly surreal
When I served in the Air Force I saw a B2 land and I never heard the engine until it turned into the hanger. Took my breath away
Thank You for your Service
*hangar.
So unbelievably cool. Incredible footage. Nothing beats this futuristic spaceship in my opinion. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻
Damn. I had to do a triple take because I really thought this was cgi. The super trimmed landscape on top of the go pro's stabilization made this look like a next gen flight simulator. Absolutely amazing footage. Thank you for sharing.
In the immortal words of Chris Farley…”That was Awesome “
Looks alien! Something between a machine and a creature with evil intentions! Many thanks for the aerial viewpoint!
Где вы наблюлаете "злые намерения"? Или внутри вас живет "болезненная фобия".
not for me i would not mistake that for an alien craft its noisy as hell to start with and it does not maneuver anything like an alien craft
It’s like watching a real life dragon going out for a casual flight around the fields.
Having worked as a final assembly inspector on the B-2 assembly line , this brings back a lot of memories.
Wow. This really is amazing, thanks for filming and uploading dude.
Is that some random black cloud just hanging out? I thought it was smoke in the distance originally.... 🤣
Search for "Crazy Stunts B-2 Spirit in 2024 Wings Over Whiteman Air Show", you'll see they lit off some pyro for the airshow.
@@fastindy thx
This was the comment I was looking for. I was also wondering about those plumes.
I immediately thought pyro.
It was pyro smoke from the A10 demo beforehand
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Stunning footage ! I imagine without computers, it would fly like a set of car keys…
It's none too stable in the turns as it is. A computer failure would exterminate that thing...
When I was in the F4 Phantom was called, "The Flying Rock" because if one of the two jets failed it not only had no glide characteristics but actually would "fall" TAIL FIRST! Can you imagine that? I watched it happen . . . It goes against everything you think about flight -
@@jamesmaxdavissands - OK, that’s mega scary… glide slope of a car backing down a hill 😳
Awesome capture ! May i feature this clip in one of my videos? Of course , link back to your original video will be given in the description. Thanks !
Yes, sure
Very cool, at 2:49 great shot with the shadow on the ground.
wow, very unique indeed! It's rare to see a flying wing, with no vertical stabilizer, in formation flight.
They just defy the brain to believe it can fly, yes wings and aero dynamics and all those wonderful computers and the fabulous engineers at Northrop that make it work , but seeing it up close like that and banking heavily it looks like it should just slide straight down to the ground. amazing piece of technology,
I grew up wondering how these aircrafts were possibly stealth, they just looked like triangles. But now I get it.
Stealth comes from the radar signature, they’re not really invisible.
@@Jasoos_Jasonda Radar signature means cross-section. When you take an angular 2D shape such as a triangle and rotate it so its XY plane is perpendicular to a radar (or even your eyes), the cross sectional area of that shape reduces more per angle than if that shape were a circle or a square. Of course, the B-2 Spirit also uses radar energy absorbing materials, but the shape is extremely important.
My wife and I saw one last month do 3 fly overs in Michigan where we live at an air show and I just stood there in awe. It’s the most beautiful plane I have ever seen.
Absolutely fantastic footage! Just imagine looking up and seeing those above you! Thanks for the upload
0:47 Is that an explosion plume on the horizon?
Wow this is absolutely incredible. ❤️
The B-2 looks like a cross between a UFO and a Peregrine Falcon as it dives for prey.
Amazing video of an amazing plane. The B-2 is one heck of a high tech flying machine. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I think being on the gound at your home and suddenly you look up and see that illusive B2 flyby. That will be MADNESS :) Fugging AWESOME video and thank you for sharing for the world to see this beauty! 😁
0:26 the $3.00 dollar autozone hose repaired, looks safe as a boss
From my understanding at least for civilian aircraft a part can not be replaced by anything that hasnt been approved by the faa for that aircraft. So even if the part is better and newer it cant be used unless its an experimental. But this may be different for military aircraft.
@@tacticalbacon9877 0:24 silicon gorilla seal from homedepot $12 dollars, makes the cheapest plumbing repair ever in a airplane 🤣😂😂
@@jarcordova i saw the hose bro bro
Whats the old beater of a plane that the go pro is in ? Looks circa 70s ? Another F5 /T38 ?
Looks like two T-38s.
T-38 Talon is mentioned in the video description
I wondered the same - looked old and possibly European inside, 70s/80s?
Is that a piece of garden hose and two screw clamps?
@pjerger6420 when he pan'd around the cockpit I was like, holy hell, cant believe this bird is still airworthy lol
The B2 - amazing aircraft that is constantly trying to fall out of the sky - if it weren't for electronics, it wouldn't fly.
awesome footage - thanks for sharing .
B2 - so graceful after all those years :)
WOW, thats truly amazing capture. another one to add to the favourites playlist
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That's Batman right there!
The most amazing thing is that it electronically stabilises itself.
To me it almost looked like it was struggling to stay in the air. I think these are inherently unstable and HAVE to be stabilized by computer. Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can chime in with something more coherent 😀
F-16's are unstable too. the initial batch just used C64 processors.
Most modern fighter jets is impossible to fly without electronically stabilization...
@@VisioGuystruggling ??? looked more like it was a ghost floating along
Not click-bait - that’s AMAZING footage of an incredible machine.
It looks like a flying Manta ray. And so flexible too. I was waiting for the shadows and, they showed up! Cool stuff.