During 30-hour bombing missions to Kosovo in 1999, B2 pilots used decidedly low-tech equipment on which to steal naps: plastic US$8.88 lawn lounger chairs from Wal-Mart slotted in behind the seats in the cockpit.
Twenty one aircraft were built in the original B-2 fleet.
Today, the fleet consists of 20 aircraft, following the loss, in February 2008, of the Spirit of Kansas, which crashed while taking off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, the first such incident in the B-2's 19 years of operation.
All aircrafts are currently based at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., home of the 509th Bomb Wing, while one aircraft is assigned to flight testing at Edwards AFB, Calif.
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