I wonder if they put a fold down cot behind the ejection seats?
Sea story: a squadronmate did an exchange tour in the B-2 and on long trips, one pilot would rest in a K-Mart tri fold lounger that fit behind the ejection seats.
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Sea story: a squadronmate did an exchange tour in the B-2 and on long trips, one pilot would rest in a K-Mart tri fold lounger that fit behind the ejection seats.
Compared to the rest of TACAIR land, that's the fucking Ritz. Put an inflatable backpacking pad on that thing and a flannel bag liner, and you could crash for hours.
CallumJohn
Active Member
I could imagine someone taking one of those foldable air mattresses up lol
Rest of TACAIR? Yeah, let me know when you fly a 20+ hour sortie.
Today the U.S. Air Force announced that in an effort to continue to promote the struggling aviation industry they will purchase the newly designed B-21 bomber. The B-21’s primary role involves appearing in recruiting commercials and flying over select sporting events. To ensure strategic bombing is still “a thing” the Air Force will eliminate its 47 year old B-1 bomber fleet and 33 year old B-2 bomber fleet allowing the 70 year old B-52 to carry the burden. Colonel “Ramrod” Reckage of the Air Force said, “I don’t know why the Navy doesn’t embrace the Zombie S-3 thing…we’re still using B-52’s that Eisenhower pointed at during air shows and they work great…it makes for nice savings.” “Sure,” Ramrod continued, “we have to buy these slick recruiting tools every 20 years or so, but we can’t let them get wet so the B-52 keeps soldiering on.”
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Or 40+
Yeah, if anything I’m surprised there isn’t a cot already built into the thing.
GroundPounder
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It is in the works, the first 3 LRIP units are being delivered at a cost of 4 million dollars each. They are coming from the IKEA snunkworks.
Funny you bring this up, because last night we were in the bar, tuning in to the rollout. One of our pilots is a former B-2 pilot and I asked him about the barcalounger, which is something I've also heard for over 20 years.
He said that wasn't a thing. Maybe it was done by someone once early on and became urban legend, I don't know. Like I said, I have heard the same thing as you.
He wasn't in the B-2 a long time... but if the lounger was "a thing", it happened before he got there.
He did say he preferred to lay down behind the left seat. There's some space there where the crew hatch is.
Oh... and they get to do a 24 hour sim also. Yay.
A 24 hour sim? My god. ?
I thought there were rules in DoD these days against hazing.
Do they get go pills for that? Even with two pilots in the cockpit, I’d be pretty worthless after 24 hours at the controls…
I don't know. I'll ask.
He said part of the sim's purpose is to figure out how much you need to haul with you for a long sortie, like food, water, etc...
Nothing like have 8 hours to go and nothing to drink because you didn't know what you didn't know.
Yes.
