Hi Paul,

Remember I told you about Magneto Hydro Dynamic propulsion in Oxford?

Below you find a Video of B2 Bomber commented by french scientist
Jean-Pierre Petit, specialist in Magneto Hydro Dynamic propulsion (MHD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efsFfuoMPYs&feature=related

The video that lasts one second and a half was copied from the Gruman
Northrop website where it inadvertently was put

Surprisingly inadvertently, it's still there:

http://www.is.northropgrumman.com/systems/b2spirit_gallery.html#relVideos

Left menu, name is "B-2 Spirit Bomber", same clip, seen on 0:12

And yes, it looks strange.
But as a _film_ camera buff, i would be hard pressed to _not_ add that
it's strange how abysmally bad dynamic range (ie. blown highlights)
seems to be acceptable to general public ;)
Probably because "Hey, this is digital! Should be 10x better than my old
film camera!"

The French are practical on this matter. They resent heavily on talking
about "Digital".. they prefer to say "Numeriqué" instead.
I like that - that's neat and straight to the point. AFAIK, of course :)

Cheers,
Petri


I down load the video from the Grumman web site and loaded it into Ulead.

I

captured the first and last frames.

Clearly there was some editing going on in the original video. Notice the
sharp vertical lines. No telling what this is or not is. Depends on the
definition of is is :)

Paul Lamar

It looks like someone pulled the vapor from an F18 and pasted it onto
the B2.  I suspect it might have been done humorously by B2
enthusiasts (crew?).


Matt-


The vapor cloud seen can happen at less than supersonic speed...... Airflow
velocity over airframe areas is higher than the speed of the aircraft. You
can get transonic flow on an aircraft that is not flying transonic.
And the B2 does go fast enough to be in this realm.
Larry

Since we are off topic anyway I'll throw out a couple of old photos
I took at the space center.

Paul Lamar