(note: multiple B2’s take off in this video, the one that crashes takes off around 1:40 into the video)

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Now that the cost of the Iraq war has reached well over half TRILLION dollars, its nice to know that our tax dollars can still go up in smoke right from the safety of our own airbases.

In this video, a B2 Stealth Bomber has trouble getting off the ground on takeoff, and the pilots judiciously eject before it crashes into the ground.

The B2 Bomber, like the Stealth Fighter, and new F-22 Raptor, are fly-by-wire aircraft. Their aerodynamics are too complex for a human to be able to fly them by adjusting the flight surfaces manually, so a computer must take the input from the pilot’s joystick and figure out how to get the plane to do what he wants.