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Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:04 pm
by KCPowercat
I work waaaaay up north so I missed it. I guess the Stealth flew over downtown really low today at noon for some fundraiser.....that would be an awesome picture.
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:29 pm
by KCLofts
I didn't see it, but I sure did hear it. It was pretty loud.
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:01 pm
by mean
If the B2 is the stealth bomber, I sure did. I was going to lunch in downtown KCKS, driving down 7th Street, and heard a jet. Figured it was some business jet landing downtown, one of the approaches takes them right over the L&C Viaduct and you can definitely hear them from across the river. Then I see it, involuntarily slam on the brakes, and say, "Woah, stealth bomber!" scaring the crap out of everyone in the car.
Thing looks like a damn UFO, and for a moment looked like it was going to land on 7th Street. It banked off to the southeast instead and disappeared. Extremely impressive piece of engineering. Wish I'd had my camera.
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:07 pm
by KCDevin
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:20 pm
by mean
Nice! It's quite a bit larger than I'd have thought.
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:21 pm
by KCDevin
50 yards... = 150ft i have that from memory
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:59 pm
by dangerboy
I think it was an event for the United Way campaign among federal employees in KC. I grew up near Whiteman and can definitely attest to the size and loudness of that plane. I never did get used to seeing that thing flying around, it's impressive and creepy at the same time.
Heard it too
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:43 pm
by FangKC
I heard it fly over Quality Hill today too. It always reminds me of something Darth Vadar would fly.
Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:52 pm
by KCN
They flew over MU for one of the football games. Talk about loud!
They also flew over my neighborhood in Columbia when they left to bomb the shit out of Afghanastan in 2001. That was kind of eerie to see.
Re: Anybody see the B2 fly over downtown today?
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:28 pm
by StL_Dan
KC wrote:I work waaaaay up north so I missed it. I guess the Stealth flew over downtown really low today at noon for some fundraiser.....that would be an awesome picture.
You're kidding!!!! I was playing ball outside at Hospital Hill at noon today and didn't hear, or see, a thing.
Man, I'm ticked that I missed that.