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August 27, 2011
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Over Boulder
Either there's an air show in town, or somebody is out to get me, because a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber made several passes over my house, and then loitered over my neighborhood for a while.
This is not the first time my house has been overflown by bombers.
22 more photos in the extended entry below. Except for being cropped, the photos are unaltered. They were taken with Canon XTi with a 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens, which is a good all-purpose lens. However, I really need to sent my 75-300mm lens back to Canon for repairs. My friends gave it to me for my birthday back in 2008 so I could do aviation photography.
The quality of some of the photos isn't the greatest, because obviously my camera's auto-focus mechanism could not lock onto the stealth material of the bomber.
UPDATE: The B-2 was participating in an air show at Rocky Mountain Metro Airport -- Jeffco Airport for those of us who've lived in the area before Broomfield became its own county.
Posted by Robert Racansky on August 27, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Comments
I have never seen any personal photos of this nature. What's up, do you suppose?
Posted by: sl on August 27, 2011 at 9:40 PM
A co-worker of mine sent me this link. Great photos! I work as an air traffic controller at "Jeffco" airport (Rocky Mountain Metro Airport). What happened is that this B2 arrived earlier than expected. Other aircraft involved in the airshow had just been launched and they had to get airborne and head out south of the airport to hold. Meanwhile, this B2 had to hold over Boulder for a few minutes before the overflight for the airshow.
Posted by: Galen Webb on August 28, 2011 at 3:13 PM
Awesome, Galen. Thanks for the update. And thanks to Robert R. for the spectacular photos. :)
Posted by: Rob Kiser 
on August 28, 2011 at 5:08 PM