{"id":196626,"date":"2008-04-07T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/07\/b-2-center-of-gravity-seen-as-likely-cause-of-crash\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:09:00","slug":"b-2-center-of-gravity-seen-as-likely-cause-of-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/07\/b-2-center-of-gravity-seen-as-likely-cause-of-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"B-2 Center of Gravity Seen as Likely Cause of Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with any flying wing, the moment arm for the controls is fairly short, so maintaining the CG within the proper range is crucial to controllability.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not just flying wings.  The first B-1 crash happened because the CG was too far aft, because the fuel was not properly distributed.<\/p>\n<p>Well, investigators are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-04-07&amp;section=News+Breaks&amp;headline=News+and+information+from+around+the+globe\">now examining the fuel management system or other issues involving the CG of the aircraft<\/a>. (Paid sub reqd)<\/p>\n<p>The report (a short blurb really) says that the , &#8220;bomber rotated prematurely, lifted off too early and stalled&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>According to a former B-2 pilot, &#8220;\u201cOne of these things we always worried about on ferry missions is that you have a lot more fuel on board than on training or operational missions. So CG can play a role. You have to make sure you don\u2019t overcontrol on takeoff because that\u2019s easy to do with an aft CG in a fully loaded configuration.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with any flying wing, the moment arm for the controls is fairly short, so maintaining the CG within the proper range is crucial to controllability. Actually, it&#8217;s not just flying wings. The first B-1 crash happened because the CG was too far aft, because the fuel was not properly distributed. Well, investigators are now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196626"}],"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=196626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}