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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Friends who flew the B2 say they get motion sick AND you cant accurately drop dumb munitions due to the yaw hunting. electronic control or not you still have the physics of air to deal with.
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Didn't know that.
A relative flew the first Lockheed F-117 'Nighthawk' bombing mission over Bagdad in the Iraq War.
I never got to meet him. He's now a Captain with Southwest Airlines ( after many years of flying right seat in the 737 ). Military pilots have to be 're-programmed.'
The enormous fineness-ratios of the great airships helped make them very stable reconnaissance and weapons platforms, not to mention 'luxuriously smooth' transoceanic cruise ships.