First B-2 Flight was on 17 July 1989
My first assignment was as an analyst/programmer officer with the 552 Airborne Warning and Control Wing from 1982-1986. Some of the company grade officers that PCS'd while I was there went to Nellis AFB to an assignment that involved being flown to an undisclosed location for a week, then coming back home for the weekend. The only thing they knew about it was that it used computer equipment similar to what we were using in AWACS. Plus there were some other clues in our line of business that indicated something very interesting was going on out there. In 1989 the F-117 Nighthawk was revealed to the public, so we thought that was what those guys went to, but now I think it was more likely they were working the development of the B-2. Or maybe both airplanes.
Hard to believe it's been 30 years already. Yikes.
My first assignment was as an analyst/programmer officer with the 552 Airborne Warning and Control Wing from 1982-1986. Some of the company grade officers that PCS'd while I was there went to Nellis AFB to an assignment that involved being flown to an undisclosed location for a week, then coming back home for the weekend. The only thing they knew about it was that it used computer equipment similar to what we were using in AWACS. Plus there were some other clues in our line of business that indicated something very interesting was going on out there. In 1989 the F-117 Nighthawk was revealed to the public, so we thought that was what those guys went to, but now I think it was more likely they were working the development of the B-2. Or maybe both airplanes.
Hard to believe it's been 30 years already. Yikes.