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Danger zone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwIBkmgz6uA

Yup, I looked at that and it says it's all real.... The flying scenes from the original were worth the ticket price :). Forget any story, going to try and watch it just to see the planes fly...

This is real flying

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Nice Beaver.

Pretty close...

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https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14421542/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfU5yBlw7U

Flying on the Beaver was like something out of a 1930s movie. A lot of fun unlike regular flying which is a painful ordeal. The terminal is two women at a counter and a few lawn chairs on a deck overlooking the ocean.
A bunch of planes line up around 5pm for different Gulf Island destinations. From the air you can see my family's house amongst the trees.

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Canadia?

Yes that is the south end of Gabriola Island by Sturdies Bay.

My friend just sent me this, flew house his house outside Stroud

Two of them took off from RAF Fairford this morning.

Awesum.

Saw these posted online...

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The second one in that photo is cloaked.

Did they make them that shape because good reason, or because they could?

They just had a few steel angle sections left over after building a big hanger and figured that they shouldn't let them go to waste.

Did they make them that shape because good reason, or because they could?

"because they could", but probably not in the way you're thinking.

oblig. what ‘second one’?

In the sense that, they could build something that ultimately met the brief as a flying wing, but was still objectively kinda crap?

Google XB-35 or YB-49?

Ok, thanks.

I was being a bit flippant, because the B-35 wasn’t about stealth, but the flying wing’s design (sleeker, for taking a payload faster ... further) was proven in the 1940s. If you were to ‘stealthify’ the jet-powered version (the YB-49), you’d probably end up with something like a B-2.

Nah that's cool. My original questions was kinda flippant too.

I'm just going to assume that - at the time - a normal design couldn't meet the speed / range / radar visibility requirements and the computer power was available to iron out the weirdness in flight.

Yes, the 1940s wing was -ultimately- defeated by the lack of supporting technology (there is also some tinfoil-hattery related to its demise because of ‘gubmint’ > palm-greasing > sabotage).
Every 35/49 airframe was destroyed, so we won’t ever see it and the B-2 on the same flight line.