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Aircraft and configuration
Top Mach Studios' B-2A has four jet engines, retractable landing gear and no conventional wing flaps. Automatic elevons and the beaver-tail surface provide its simulated control functions. The developer uses small simulated tail and rudder surfaces and simplified pitch and bank limits in the flight model.
B-2A Spirit
Top Mach Studios · Read more ↗Meet B-2A Spirit
Top Mach Studios' B-2A has four jet engines, retractable landing gear and no conventional wing flaps. Automatic elevons and the beaver-tail surface provide its simulated control functions. The developer uses small simulated tail and rudder surfaces and simplified pitch and bank limits in the flight model.
History & design
A flying wing takes to the air
The B-2 first flew on 17 July 1989, leaving Palmdale for Edwards Air Force Base. Northrop test pilot Bruce Hinds commanded a flight lasting just over two hours, beginning the flight-test programme for the low-observable flying wing.
Northrop Grumman · B-2 first-flight anniversary ↗Manufacturer anniversary account, July 2014
Remembering the first flight
For the twenty-fifth anniversary in 2014, Northrop Grumman and the US Air Force recreated that first-flight departure. The event linked the operational aircraft back to the test team and manufacturing programme that brought it into service.
Northrop Grumman · B-2 first-flight anniversary ↗Manufacturer anniversary account, July 2014
Systems & details
Controls and equipment
The radar-altitude hold does not sense terrain ahead. Optional autothrottle is a simulator convenience. The Lite version reduces visual and performance demands.
Automatic flight in the virtual flying wing
Top Mach distinguishes the add-on’s optional autothrottle from its description of the real aircraft. The simulated system uses the simulator’s autothrottle and can differ slightly from the custom Mach indication at high speed. Its radar-altitude hold also lacks forward-looking terrain sensing. These are useful boundaries when exploring the virtual aircraft’s automatic-flight controls: neither feature should be treated as a reproduction of an operational B-2 terrain-following system.
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Manuals & resources
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Simulator documentation
Controls and equipmentB-2A Spirit
The radar-altitude hold does not sense terrain ahead. Optional autothrottle is a simulator convenience. The Lite version reduces visual and performance demands.
Spirit manual · pages 1, 19, 23–24 and 67–70
Top Mach Studios · Read the source ↗Read the original documentation from the people who created it. Manuals open on their publisher’s website.
Simulator documentation
B-2A Spirit — simulator documentationTop Mach Studios · Spirit manual · pages 1, 19, 23–24 and 67–70Aircraft history
B-2 first-flight anniversaryNorthrop Grumman · Manufacturer anniversary account, July 2014Built-in force-feedback profiles
Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.
Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 1 profile choice
Top Mach Studios B-2A Spirit
Top Mach Studios · Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The B-2A Spirit flying wing, represented with developer-defined flight controls.
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