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Article: Fat finger fiasco.
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- Combat Edge
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Pilots always want to be remembered. Most pilots want to be remembered for something great, but no one wants to be remembered as the first pilot to crash a B-2, especially a perfectly good one. I sure didn't, but if things had been a little different on a recent training sortie, that might have been my claim to fame.
Now, for those of you who don't know, there are 21 B-2A Spirit bombers. There are no plans to build anymore, and the low production numbers make for a very costly per aircraft price tag. On a good/bad scale, the loss of 1 of only 21 airplanes on a training mission, due to crew inattention would have been a bad thing!
I have about 700 hours ...