Good video. Read the text first then watch the video and turn on sound. right click on screen and click full screen from menu You can see why the U-2 is considered the most difficult plane in the world to fly. Each pilot has a co-pilot, who chases the plane on the This video is not for Marine wannabees who think the Air Force is for pussies--in the AF you have to think!!!!! Be sure to hit the full screen button on the video. This is truly amazing. Enjoy
runway in a sports car. Most of the cars are either Pontiac GTOs or
Chevrolet Cameros — the Air Force buys American.
The chase cars talk the pilot down as he lands on bicycle-style landing gear.
In that spacesuit, the pilot in the plane simply cannot get a good
view of the runway.
Upon takeoff, the wings on this plane, which extend 103 feet from tip
to tip, literally flap.
To stabilize the wings on the runway, two pogo sticks on wheels prop
up the ends of the wings.
As the plane flies away, the pogo sticks drop off.
The plane climbs at an amazing rate of nearly 10,000 feet a minute.
Within about four minutes,
I was at 40,000 feet, higher than any commercial airplane. We kept
going up to 13 miles above
Earth's surface.
You get an incredible sensation up there. As you look out the windows,
it feels like you're floating, it
feels like you're not moving, but you're actually going 500 mph..
The U-2 was built to go higher than any other aircraft. In fact today,
more than 50 years since it
went into production, the U-2 flies higher than any aircraft in the
world with the exception of the space shuttle.
It is flying more missions and longer missions than ever before —
nearly 70 missions a month over Iraq and Afghanistan , an operational
tempo that is unequaled in history.
The pilots fly for 11 hours at a time, sometimes more than 11 hours up
there alone.
By flying so high, the U-2 has the capability of doing reconnaissance
over a country without actually violating its airspace.
It can look off to the side, peering 300 miles or more inside a
country without actually flying over it.
It can "see" in the dark and through clouds.
It can also "hear," intercepting conversations 14 miles below.
The U-2, an incredible piece of history and also a current piece of
high technology, is at the center of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan .
Enjoy the ride!
Lockheed U-2
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