Beautiful Views of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber at RAAF Base Amberley

[@tonypegler9080]

I enjoyed living at Amberley for 4 years as an Airforce brat. I was there when the F4's left and the F111's arrived.

[@mw12349]

so cool my son is in 36 Sqdn there

[@tonypegler9080]

@@mw12349 My Dad was with 36 sqdn in Germany during the Berlin airlift in DC3's. then during the Korean war was with 36 transport sqdn in C-47's. He was a signaler

[@mw12349]

@@tonypegler9080 oh wow so awesome

[@BenjiiBee]

Saw one of these B2's being escorted over the GC last Wednesday. Unreal seeing it in the air and how it blends into the clouds so well. Got a few vids :) Couldn't believe my eyes at first.

[@subwayfacemelt4325]

Awesome footage. Hate to love these things, but they're just too amazing!

[@MOPWD]

Loveee Amberley! Great heritage centre too!

[@jimhouston7913]

I saw the B2 turn around just north of Yamba on Wednesday. Amazing!!

[@BenjiiBee]

I must have saw the same one flying over GC Wednesday. It had an escort in front of it.

[@stephenmckee7874]

Great to see the very best here in Queensland

[@corvanphoenix]

Still lost the Origin 🤣

[@colinmeehan791]

@@corvanphoenix NSW have lost far more,check the records.

[@corvanphoenix]

@@colinmeehan791 It's sad how many people live in the past 🤣

[@biljgordot881]

Very best? This is old technology. Tr3-b and Salvatore pais work is far more advanced 🤫

[@noremacbeez]

If you put this on any Facebook groups the mods would all be outraged for showing base facilities! GREAT vid!

[@REVY01]

Fuck what the mods say, this is too cool not to have out there.

[@chartphred1]

You should see what they've been blabbering about here in Perth if someone dares to post facilities imagery at RAAF Pearce unbelievably paranoid, and it's a training base FFS!

[@noremacbeez]

@chartphred1 yeah I posted some photos of the Amberley open day a few months back (public attendance) which had some backgrounds of buildings and personnel, and they ripped into me.... like there were 5000 people invited onto base all posting to socials..... I don't get it....

[@shinkicker404]

Wish the wind sound was a bit less intense. Good video though! Can definitely see how people would think these things were UFOs back in the day.

[@djblc2201]

Cool vid. A wind sock on your mic might decrease wind noise

[@mw12349]

My son is based at Amberley 36 Sqdn on the C-17 Globe masters. Love this footage thanks for sharing. New sub here. they did their first Air to Air refueling 2 weeks ago so awesome to see

[@mediamagikgroup]

Thanks for the sub!

[@malcolmduncan3047]

Nuclear capable. Our 'major trading partner' to the north probably had no idea they were here, whilst attempting to track them across the Pacific. (probably heard from Oz TV news...lol.) Uninterrupted flight with stealth is a wonderful thing. :) Only downside, (if we could buy them) those two aircraft would probably consume half our national defence budget.

[@wt29]

Great crosswind landings. I've never thought about how this is done on a rudderless aircraft. Is that 1 tanker for each Spirit?

[@brodricj3023]

I would have thought a rudderless aircraft wouldn't be affected so much by crosswind.

[@jetalse7974]

@@brodricj3023 A rudderless aircraft is still blown sideways by a crosswind.

[@brodricj3023]

@@jetalse7974 It's not about being blown sideways. The challenge in landing is about the weather-cocking effect of the cross wind which is exacerbated by the aircraft tail. B-2 being blown sideways but with its longitudinal axis still being aligned with the runway is not an issue. But with a vertical tail the cross wind causes the longitudinal axis of the aircraft to be out of alignment with the runway and that is the challenge for landing.

[@corvanphoenix]

No one thinks much about it bro. That's how good fly by wire is. The pilot just has to tell it what needs doing, it's the computer's problem how it gets done 🤣

[@FNCS.k1unna]

love this video

[@iamgod6464]

From the Top of Flinders Peak you can see the whole of Amberley Airbase. Mt Blaine the Pyramid on the left of Flinders must cause a few navigational problems to the base considering it generates a lot of Electromagnetic Energy.😊👍👽

[@LesleyDT6227]

Can you explain the electro magnetic energy thing more? Where is this pyramid?

[@iamgod6464]

@@LesleyDT6227 Well Mt Blaine is part of the group of Mounts associated with Flinders Peak near Ipswich, Queensland. Back in the 80's we use to Bush Walk around these Mounts and climb Flinders Peak. Everytime we approached Mt Blaine our Compasses would go wild and we would feel as if we were entering somewhere that wasn't part of this planet. Once, back in 1984, we actually camped near the Slope of Mt Blaine and we experienced all sorts of strange phenomena like high pitched sounds, lights, and shadowy figures woundering around in the bush. The following day we watched a Helicopter from Amberley land a Man on top of the Mount. Then lift him off and head back to the Base. It's a weird place.

[@mw12349]

@@iamgod6464 wow

[@lauralhardy5450]

no wire mesh fences around the hardstands when the 111s were there

[@LEZGO42]

The B-2 is so intriguing and bird like. Amazing!

[@joshadsett4835]

nice cross wind. Looks like a pilot is flying

[@spamcanastis8514]

Cranking crosswinds

[@ashleykerlin]

That first B2 landing was hairy. So close to a wingtip touch.

[@LesleyDT6227]

Yep agree the second one was way more steady

[@garyeastell3458]

Nice.

[@ultimobile]

3:39 & 5:32 the wobbly B-2 one-wheel touch landings made me wonder about the fly-by-wire inherently-unstable design - or were these pilots just being real relaxed ...

[@spamcanastis8514]

Did you see the crosswind

[@christopherroser1849]

Thank you.

[@garrysecuramot]

I know the logistics would be a real hassle, but would the ADF get more interest in the services if they offered to take students up in the air transports during training exercises like this in their final Year 12?

[@corvanphoenix]

Fk yeah. You'd reckon it would make any adrenaline junky think twice about their other ideas. I can't imagine it's even close to possible these days, in any way. People can't even make money running major music festivals these days.

[@artofdirecting]

Airforce cadets get the chance to go up a couple of times a year. Also stay on base for 4 or 5 nights etc. Great experience for the kids!

[@grabir01]

wow! rough landing. Almost caught a wing tip!

[@keithwilson1554]

Oh look someone stepped on our F-35s and called them B-2 s. We already B1s and B2s they are in Pyjamas

[@corvanphoenix]

Welcome to 🇦🇺 Grim Reapers & Invisible Defenders! If you'll permit my lapse into local parlance, it's fucking great to see you here for a while! I hope you & all the boys from the squadrons here too, have a great time!!!

[@Jesse__t08]

wow, what road was this taken from?

[@petert3355]

It's not, it's taken from actually on base.

[@Jesse__t08]

@@petert3355 oh wow yea it looked a little close

[@kizzjd9578]

@@petert3355they both got fired from downer😂

[@petert3355]

@@kizzjd9578 You're going to have to explain that.

[@kizzjd9578]

@@petert3355 2 downer employees were fired for taking a video of base facilities. Is that good enough? Lol

[@spamcanastis8514]

Hornets out practicing refuelling?

[@janicecefia7619]

I wish the people who are posting these would say something

[@mediamagikgroup]

Like what?

[@kizzjd9578]

@@mediamagikgroup deez nutz

[@LesleyDT6227]

I cannot understand why anybody leaves the Air Force

[@mediamagikgroup]

Imagine traveling the world, flying every day, living in awesome other countries, then getting orders to Travis Air Force Base, and once there being told you will never get orders out again, it's a black hole base! The icing on the cake, your new squadron sucks ass! No brotherhood feeling like overseas, people don't give a shit about anything, etc. Who would want to spend the rest of their career at a sucky assignment that you can never leave?

[@PedroRodriguez-hy5ty]

This plane is a space ship

[@7thplanet121]

Broken arrow?

[@cut--]

We Yanks got yer back. And front. 🎉

[@LesleyDT6227]

Thank you muchly

[@ianrawlings2546]

Just get rid of Trump!

[@Mudjimba23AT]

2nd b2 landiwas silky

[@nathanbull3171]

It's our friends guys What acraft did we build in Aus? Lol just hig taxes and nothing in our defence

[@brodricj3023]

So Australia pays for the fuel that goes into the B-2?

[@jwf069]

Not usually but who cares, we all get training value out of it by working with the US or anyone else. When we go away we fund all expenses, I'm guessing its the same for the USAF out of exercise budgets. Unless an alt arrangement was made in planning.

[@robertprior94]

That's the price of freedom...are you a Tax Payer?.

[@noremacbeez]

The least we can do!

[@zaphodbeeblebrox7616]

Worth every cent!

[@corvanphoenix]

I reckon we charge each other but it wouldn't relate to the actual costs, just how much they wanted to launder through that channel 🤣

[@justdoitcoro]

Where do you all think the funds come from for these aircraft to be able to operate ??? Your own very "Trust" funds , As an Ex SAS Soldier trying to say wake up sheep before its too late . Their running an Admistration only to run your trust for the living dead . You all have a trust fund as you are all part owners of planet earth . Everyone has their own trust fund . These pilots are amazing people and incredibly talented aviators .

[@peterm3964]

Get some help . It’s not too late ,punchy .

[@dalejoy193]

Million dollars a second.

[@grantdenniston2839]

Sorry but there's NOTHING BEAUTIFUL about an instrument of war !!!

[@mediamagikgroup]

In your opinion, but that is all it is, your opinion.