Is the american b2 stealth bomber powered by a nuclear reactor? is it capable of hovering?

Rock Island

no and no again



Friendship

No, it has regular jet engines and needs to move to fly, like any fixed wing airplane.



Littleton

Yes, and yes. It also has a Slurpee machine inside the crew rest area (but only one flavor), and a bowling alley in the bomb bay.



Myrtle

No. It's powered by all the hot air that comes from Idiot wanna bees running for President. And yes it can hover all day while it's resting on it's landing gear.



Lyndonville

The B-2 "Spirit" is a jet aircraft in the usual sense and is not powered by a nuclear reactor. The four internally buried non-after burning engines are of a conventional type. It is not capable of hovering or any other maneuver not associated with normal jet aircraft. Experiments with nuclear reactors aboard aircraft in the early days found that the heavy shielding and danger of the nuclear fuel in a crash proved to be too great to risk. The experiments went so far as a start up of a small nuclear reactor aboard a B-36 bomber but no efforts were made to use the reactor to actually power the aircraft before the program was canceled. Weight from the need for shielding for the crew is the main reason nuclear faculty is unallowed concerning aircraft propulsion..In May 1946, the Air Force began the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project which was followed mention May 1951 beside the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program. The ANP program required that Convair modify two B-36s under the MX-1589 programme. One in on the modified B-36s studied shielding requirements for an airborne reactor to determine whether one likes it a nuclear aircraft was feasible. The Nuclear Test Aircraft (NTA) was a B-36H-20-CF (Serial Number 51-5712) that had been damaged touch on a tornado at Carswell AFB on 1 September 1952. This plane, designated the NB-36H, was modified to carry a 1 MW, air-cooled nuclear reactor talk about the aft shell slot, by a four billions intimation shield between the reactor and the cockpit. The cockpit was encased bring up lead and rubber, close to a 6-inch (15 cm)–thick acrylic glass windshield. The reactor was operational other than did automatically knack the plane; its sole r�le was grate on nerves investigate the finish in the know about radiation on aircraft systems. Between 1955 and 1957, the NB-36H completed 47 test flights and 215 hours in the know about flight session, during 89 of which the reactor was depreciative. The NB-36H was scrapped present Fort Worth in 1958 when the atomic aircraft program was abandoned...



Rickardsville

Yes, Frank does indeed trip.



Westport

figueroaj85, I direct your attention to the The V-22 Osprey and Harrier Jump Jet, quite capable ofhovering! Perhaps YOU didn't think before you called someone else moron, for your answer make you appear to be the moron.



Gibson

No. No. It isn't invisible, either. It doesn't have a "cloaking device". This is NOT Star Trek.



Crestwood

No. It burns kerosene just like any other jet airplane. No. The B2 flies the same way as any other fixed wing aircraft, and cannot hover or fly vertically.



Clayton

RoflLolomgZOMG! hahaWTH?



King Cove

Yup! and lots of other cool things! Dont mess with us. Imagine want we have you dont know about?



Oceanside

Nope but that would cool if it did



New Madrid

depends on what you are smoking



Round Mountain

Yeah. Email me with prices, terms and an address for a drop shipment.



Brooklyn

no. seriously are you retarded? or are you just a moron who doesnt think? the only aircraft capable of hovering are helicopters. and to the guy who gave the long technical answer, why must you supply the dumbnuts with power? its a waste of time