Northrop unveils motorcycle inspired by B-2

[unhappycamper]

Northrop Grumman commissioned Orange County Chopper to create a motorcycle in honor of the B-2's 20th anniversary.


Northrop unveils motorcycle inspired by B-2
Staff report
Posted : Wednesday Jan 14, 2009 18:00:00 EST

It may not avoid radar detection or fly at 500-plus mph, but the motorcycle incarnation of a B-2 Spirit bomber still turns heads.

Builder Northrop Grumman unveiled the “Spirit of Innovation,” a motorcycle inspired by the B-2 and created by Orange County Choppers on Wednesday. The story behind the B-2 bike will be shown later this year on the cable TV series "American Chopper.”

Northrop commissioned the motorcycle as part of its 20th year celebration of the B-2’s 1989 maiden flight.

The stealth bike’s design incorporates several visual details of the B-2 stealth bomber, a Northrop release said.

Its gas tank and extended front cowling are shaped to resemble the B-2’s cockpit and fuselage.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/01/airforce_stealth_motorcycle_011409w/%2e

[Squatch]

1. What...does it have Billions in cost overruns and crash when it gets wet?

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Yawn.

OCC's theme choppers are getting old.

[rfranklin]

3. This is one of the ugliest bikes ever out of that shop...

But money talks and they're rolling in it. Of course, it's only a matter of time before they're back to being a welding shop.

[ixion]

4. crappy lookin' bike built by an even crappier show

American Chopper both sucks and blows. Who the hell wants to watch a couple Nazi hot-heads make crappy over-priced motorcycles?