{"id":2869,"date":"2009-07-16T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/20th-anniversary-of-the-b2-spirit-rollout\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:36:44","slug":"20th-anniversary-of-the-b2-spirit-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/20th-anniversary-of-the-b2-spirit-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Anniversary of the B2 Spirit Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style='font-size: 1.3em'>Out of the Black and into the Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/b2-spirit.jpg' title='B2 Spirit in flight over Edwards Air Force Base'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/b2-spirit.thumbnail.jpg' alt='B2 Spirit in flight over Edwards Air Force Base' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On July 17, 1989 at <strong>Edwards Air Force Base<\/strong>, <strong>Northrop<\/strong> and the <strong>United States Air Force<\/strong> rolled out this magnificent aircraft. I watched the closed circuit TV coverage from the media center at Northrop Electro-Mechanical Division in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n<p>Damsel and I later had the privilege to visit the B2 production facility in Palmdale for a group tour and a fly-by. It was spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>Photo taken by The Flying Kiwi at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richard-seaman.com\/Aircraft\/AirShows\/Edwards2005\/B2\/index.html\">2005 Air Show<\/a> at Edwards Air Force Base. Be sure and visit the link for more photos from the air show. Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Black and into the Blue On July 17, 1989 at Edwards Air Force Base, Northrop and the United States Air Force rolled out&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aviation","category-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}