Love and the
B-2 Stealth Bomber

It was 1987, the height of the Reagan era. Kendall Noxsel was twenty-six, four years out of college in Kentucky and two years into an aerospace career in California — a country boy from a rust-belt corner of southern Ohio, quietly climbing the ranks as a manufacturing engineer on the initial production of the most advanced military aircraft in history.

Then he fell in love with a woman from Pico Rivera who had survived a life of her own — two years alone in New York City as a teenager, an abusive marriage, a young family to rebuild. Love and the B-2 Stealth Bomber is the true story of what happened when two people who had only known precarious lives tried, scars and all, to build a future together — set against the secrecy and ambition of the Cold War’s most classified aircraft program.