An AIr Combat report issued Thursday says that the crash of a B-2 Stealth bomber in Guam on February 23rd was caused by water in the aircraft’s sensors which wreaked havoc on the aircraft’s air data computers. AVweb has the details:
The crash on takeoff of a 509th Air Wing, Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber, February [...]

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A report released by the Air Force Times provides some preliminary insight into the crash of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in Guam on February 23rd:

The B-2 Spirit “Stealth Bomber” that crashed Saturday, Feb., 23, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, was on fire prior to the crash, according to a report cited by the [...]

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Boeing is teaming up with Gulfstream to create an unmanned version of the long-range Gulfstream 550 to be used for military reconnaisance:
The jet is a Gulfstream 550, and as part of a Navy contract, it would be turned into a BAMS 550, which stands for Broad Area Maritime Surveillance. Tom Hagen, who is leading [...]

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Check out this great video from “Top Gear,” where a Bugatti Veyron races a Eurofighter Typhoon. The car and jet start the race at the same time. The car must drive down the runway a full mile, turn around and drive back the full mile again to the start line, which becomes the finish line. [...]

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America’s first stealth aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk, is slowly being decommissioned, but is still being kept battle-ready. Just in the past two weeks, 10 Nighthawks from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico have been sent to their original home at Nevada’s Tonopah Test Range.

 We’ve gradually been sending them out,” spokesman Arlan Ponder said about [...]

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This Popular Science article goes back to October 2006, but it’s a very interesting read on the top-secret aircraft that are rumored to be in development at Area 51 in Nevada. Author Bill Sweetman asks the questions: “Stealth jets? Hypersonic bombers? What’s really being developed at the military’s most famous classified base?”

For aerospace sleuths, there´s [...]

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