 B-2 Crashes in Guam |
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| B-2 Crashes in Guam |
 Feb 25 2008, 08:38 AM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../wbomber223.xml
Wow!  Since the plane is kept aloft by a lot of computers that make sure it is stable, my money is on one of them failing. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Feb 25 2008, 10:08 AM
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this quote points to a computer prob too:
QUOTE A senior US military source told The Sunday Telegraph that all remaining B-2 stealth bombers were on a "no-fly" order and that there would be no further take-offs until the initial investigation into the crash had been completed.
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Feb 27 2008, 12:35 AM
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 Oh baby bring me down  Group: Agents Posts: 4,115 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Way out yonder Member No.: 68 |
They usually ground the same series of a plane. It may be stressed or a computer glitch. As long as they have been flying, I trust the silicon more than the hydraulics.
-------------------- Southern Rock, beer and bears!
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Feb 27 2008, 09:44 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
they still use hydraulics in those things? or you just mean you trust the comps more than the mechanical?
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Feb 27 2008, 11:47 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Feb 27 2008, 09:44 AM)  they still use hydraulics in those things? or you just mean you trust the comps more than the mechanical? The specs on the B-2 are mostly classified but I think that most of the control systems are fly-by-wire, meaning an electric motor does the work that the hydraulics would. The only places that this wouldn't apply would be be the landing gear mechanisms. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Feb 27 2008, 12:16 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
right, that's what I thought, was just wondering if chuck knew something different
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Feb 28 2008, 12:05 AM
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Oh baby bring me down Group: Agents Posts: 4,115 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Way out yonder Member No.: 68 |
I was just thinking that motors would produce too much emf and they would use smaller ones with hydraulics assistance (being directed by wires, but then I know shit about this plane.
-------------------- Southern Rock, beer and bears!
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