Like most all US military aircraft, most especially fighter jets and bombers, the names for the "pilot," "mission commander," and aircraft ground crew listed underneath, those are not the current names. It's tens of millions to reapply the stealth coating on the B-2's alone, and repainting every fighter jet for each time a different pilot gets it for that day/mission is more than a bit costly. All US Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Coast Guard aircraft are flown by different crews all the time; no pilot gets their very own jet. On Navy aircraft carriers, all F/A-18E/F and E/F-18G Super Hornets and Growlers each have pilot names and ground crew names on each aircraft, but every pilot usually gets randomly assigned to whatever jet they have ready and up. The names on those B-2's are likely the names of the first pilots assigned to fly it when it was first built, then likely updated with newer names from the squadron after each new reapplication of stealth coating to the bomber.
@@orbital080 Generally the squadron CO has an assigned airframe which is visually distinguishable, and while yes the rest of the pilots in the squadron aren't guaranteed the same flight due to maintenance schedules and the such they are generally using "their" aircraft when available if they're in the squadron. There's no shortage of videos on TH-cam discussing this as it's a common question.
Welcome back to Australia 🇦🇺
Is this at Amberley?
Yep
Pacific Air Show? Riverfire?
Anyone know how long they're there for?
what base are they at
Amberly
Ok, so nows our chance to reverse engineer them.!
2:30 No one thinks it's a bit of a personal security issue for the crew when their names are painted on a nuclear bomber?
Like most all US military aircraft, most especially fighter jets and bombers, the names for the "pilot," "mission commander," and aircraft ground crew listed underneath, those are not the current names. It's tens of millions to reapply the stealth coating on the B-2's alone, and repainting every fighter jet for each time a different pilot gets it for that day/mission is more than a bit costly. All US Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Coast Guard aircraft are flown by different crews all the time; no pilot gets their very own jet. On Navy aircraft carriers, all F/A-18E/F and E/F-18G Super Hornets and Growlers each have pilot names and ground crew names on each aircraft, but every pilot usually gets randomly assigned to whatever jet they have ready and up. The names on those B-2's are likely the names of the first pilots assigned to fly it when it was first built, then likely updated with newer names from the squadron after each new reapplication of stealth coating to the bomber.
@@orbital080 Generally the squadron CO has an assigned airframe which is visually distinguishable, and while yes the rest of the pilots in the squadron aren't guaranteed the same flight due to maintenance schedules and the such they are generally using "their" aircraft when available if they're in the squadron. There's no shortage of videos on TH-cam discussing this as it's a common question.