The B-2 stealth bomber that "would never fly again"

[Stratofreighter]

Many will have read http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123375103 ,
but now there is also
http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/02/wh ... ?hpt=hp_c3

When You’ve Only Got 20 B-2 Bombers…
...keeping all of them flying becomes important

http://www.fire.tc.faa.gov/2010Conferen ... tePres.pdf

ARFF Lessons Learned
– Hidden interior fires are difficult to extinguish
– Composites smolder and reignite
– Fuselage penetration is virtually impossible with an axe and difficult with a K-12