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BurnTire
06-06-08, 06:18 PM
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6d_1212714828&p=1
El Jefe
06-06-08, 06:24 PM
Most expensive crash to date? $1 billion or something? Come on that'll buff out....
AZSonicSnake
06-06-08, 09:22 PM
ouchie! did anyone hear the lack of crashing noises? all i heard was CHA CHING!!! lol...
ASUSMC
06-07-08, 12:42 AM
That was definitely pilot error. He failed to pull up correctly, panicked, and pulled straight back on the stick.

Actually a little over 2 billion each originally now somewhere in the 1.4-1.5 range
santa_rosa_lt1
06-07-08, 01:11 AM
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1452/g2gtq9.jpg
4Jenna
06-07-08, 02:35 AM
Dayum
Jacostang
06-07-08, 02:45 PM
Is there a "payroll deduction" in the military????
BurnTire
06-07-08, 06:18 PM
Jacostang
06-07-08, 06:38 PM
Heck I knew that.........:biglaugh:
ASUSMC
06-08-08, 04:46 PM
Correct Jeff.

You knew exactly what I meant. The aircraft not only had too high of an angle of attack but he was also pitched. The computer could have corrected for that if those sensors had been working. Since they were not and the instrument panel was not reading correctly it would make it near impossible to fly that aircraft.
Jacostang
06-08-08, 07:42 PM
So let me get this straight, a little bit of "moisture" cause a billion dollar aircraft to crash....
santa_rosa_lt1
06-08-08, 08:53 PM
if Honda made would of made it....
BurnTire
06-09-08, 11:44 PM
Stern90LX
06-10-08, 01:04 PM
Having worked around B-2's when I was stationed at Edwards AFB I do know about those sensors.
Those air pressure sensors work just like a MAF. They have a heater element in them to burn off moisture. Just like our MAF's do. However I don't know there calibration routines. If the maint. T.O.'s called for only taking an impedance reading with the heater circuit off then yes. Any moisture in them would throw off the baseline reading.

10 to 1 odds a revision to the T.O. was issued to power the heater on to burn off moisture before recalibration procedures. What gets me is, how the hell did they figure out it was moisture in the sensors during routine maintenance and not just a failure of the heater elements in them before take off?
4Jenna
06-10-08, 01:46 PM
Stern when were you at Edwards

I was there from 99-03'
Stern90LX
06-10-08, 03:12 PM
I was at Edwards from Feb 95 to Dec 97. It was my last posting, I got out in Dec 97.
4Jenna
06-10-08, 04:02 PM
What did you do there?
Stern90LX
06-11-08, 02:22 AM
What did you do there?

I am an Ex-AMMO troop (IYAAYAS!!). Worked out on south base in the bomb dump. Delivered a lot of munitions to the B-2 Barn on south base. Which put me in, under, and around them quite often.
The B-2's spent like 4 years on Edwards doing conventional munition load out certifications and T.O. Verifications.
Ya know how it is on Edwards... Test it, turn a screw then test it again. :icon_cool: