b 2

Episode Number: 361 Season Num: 11 First Aired: Friday August 26, 2005
In any battle, the key to victory is the ability to strike the enemy without them knowing what hit them. Within the US arsenal one such weapon can go into harm's way, deliver 40,000 pounds of either conventional or nuclear bombs, and slip away unobserved–the B-2 Stealth Bomber. With its origins in single-wing experimentation in Germany in the 1930s, the B-2 was developed under a cloak of secrecy. But when that cloak was lifted, the world was awed by what stood before them. Able to fly over 6,000 miles without refueling, it can reach whatever target the US military wants to attack and deliver its awesome array of laser-guided weapons with pinpoint accuracy. Using state-of-the-art technology, including over 130 onboard computers, and shrouded by a mantle of stealth, it's undetectable by any radar.

Hiermit genehmige ich die D. (Luft) T 2234 B-2 Teil 0 bis 10 „8-234 Flugzeug-Handbuch, (verkürzt), (Stand Dezember 1944), Ausgabe Dezember 1944". Sie tritt mit dem Tage der Herausgabe in Kraft. Mit hrem Erscheinen tritt die Firmenschrift Ar 234 B-2, Baubeschreibung, Ausgabe Juni 1944, außer Kraft und ist gemäß Vorbemerkungen zur L. Dv. 1/1 zu vernichten.

The story of the jet bomber's development from Hitler's Messerschmitt Me 262 to the modern day Stealth B-2 - containing all the relevant data relating to over 120 aircraft types. Covers prototypes and a number of drawing-board projects, and includes full specifications for every type. Fully illustrated with b/w photogrphs and scaled drawings.