Excellent article on a B-2 that was nearly destroyed and then brought back to life.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-...dollar-bomber-20140320-dto,0,285088.htmlstory
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-...dollar-bomber-20140320-dto,0,285088.htmlstory
The four-year operation to rebuild the military's rarest — and most expensive at $2.1 billion — aircraft involved hundreds of hard-to-find parts, thousands of labor hours, and 300 Air Force and Northrop workers. Many of them, mechanics such as Byrne, left their families in Palmdale and flew 6,000 miles to Guam to work seven days a week for months at a time to restore the stealth bomber.