{"id":181139,"date":"2016-09-19T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/19\/i-was-hoping-for-stealthy-mcstealthface\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:42:00","slug":"i-was-hoping-for-stealthy-mcstealthface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/19\/i-was-hoping-for-stealthy-mcstealthface\/","title":{"rendered":"I was Hoping for Stealthy McStealthface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF has <a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/usaf-dubs-b-21-stealth-bomber-raider-honoring-doolittle\">named its new bomber, the B-21, the &#8220;Raider&#8221; as an homage to the Jimmy Doolittle raids on Japan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Almost seven months after designating Northrop Grumman\u2019s next-generation stealth aircraft the B-21, U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James announced on Sept. 19 that it will be called the Raider, in honor of the Doolittle Raiders who took on the Japanese during World War II.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The name came about through a poll of airmen that ran from March to May, with the winnowing down of potential names to a handful of top submissions. From more than 4,600 entries, the winning name &#8220;Raider&#8221; was revealed by Lt. Col. (ret.) Richard Cole at the opening of the Air Force Association\u2019s Air, Space &amp; Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Maryland. Cole is one of the last surviving Doolittle Raiders; he was co-pilot in aircraft No. 1.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">There had been speculation that the Air Force\u2019s B-21 name would honor a World War II aerial bombardment type, such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-29 Superfortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, North American B-25 Mitchell or Martin B-26 Marauder.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">In choosing Raider, the air branch has rejected ghoulish suggestions like &#8220;Wraith&#8221; or &#8220;Spectre&#8221; as well as tongue-in-cheek nods to the aircraft\u2019s low-observable profile such as &#8220;Stealthy McSteathface&#8221; and &#8220;Dr. Stealthlove.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should have been &#8220;Stealthy McStealthface&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Also, why the B-21?&nbsp; What are the 18 aircraft between the B-2 and this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF has named its new bomber, the B-21, the &#8220;Raider&#8221; as an homage to the Jimmy Doolittle raids on Japan: Almost seven months after designating Northrop Grumman\u2019s next-generation stealth aircraft the B-21, U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James announced on Sept. 19 that it will be called the Raider, in honor of the Doolittle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[772,898,820],"class_list":["post-181139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-language","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}