On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:19:55 -0500, Mike Beede wrote:

In article , Scott Ferrin wrote:

On 7 Apr 2004 14:49:50 -0700, (Allen Thomson)
wrote:

Caution: I *think* this is genuine, not Photoshopped, but these days
you can never tell. Anyway, genuine or fake, it's kind of neat.

http://www.ammochiefs.com/Diego%20Garcia%204.jpg


It's real. There are others of B-1s and B-52s out there too. I
always wondered if there were any photos of all THREE bombers there.

The B-2 appears to be climbing. If so, why does it have its rudders
in air brake mode (whatever the correct terminology is, please fill it
in)? When you're climbing, you'd usually prefer to *reduce* drag,
not increase it.

Mike Beede


The way they work is to add drag to turn the aircraft. They are
normally split 5 degrees IIRC to act as rudders. In "stealth mode"
they apparently tighten that up but with a loss of authority I'd
think. In any case I've heard them referred to as "drag rudders" and
"split rudders".