And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I think its a two seater (separate cockpits with quite a step up between the front and rear) and the guy is a passenger along for a ride or training in the back cockpit.
Check out the U2 "Dragon Lady" on this YouTube video -- lots of interesting info on this amazing aircraft: "Flying the U-2 Spy Plane 70,000 Feet to the Edge of Space" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpcKKAhhGiw
Also by the same creator as the video above, here's the "360° U-2 Spy Plane Flight | Full Cockpit Ride to 70,000 Feet" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKVuiPBSBCg
I've been out on the runway with the launch crew. They carry a regular Home Depot ladder. If he gets smoke in the cockpit you have to go help him out because that flight suit makes him immobile. I can't remember if I'm allowed to tell you guys that but there it is.
U2 pilot in his cockpit.
ReplyDeleteI think its a two seater (separate cockpits with quite a step up between the front and rear) and the guy is a passenger along for a ride or training in the back cockpit.
DeleteTrying to figure out why it has rear view mirrors attached to the canopy.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
To see what is behind him.
DeleteTo see that SA-2 coming up at him.
DeleteCheck out the U2 "Dragon Lady" on this YouTube video -- lots of interesting info on this amazing aircraft: "Flying the U-2 Spy Plane 70,000 Feet to the Edge of Space"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpcKKAhhGiw
Also by the same creator as the video above, here's the "360° U-2 Spy Plane Flight | Full Cockpit Ride to 70,000 Feet" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKVuiPBSBCg
I've been out on the runway with the launch crew. They carry a regular Home Depot ladder. If he gets smoke in the cockpit you have to go help him out because that flight suit makes him immobile. I can't remember if I'm allowed to tell you guys that but there it is.
ReplyDeletejust dont tell them about the ultra low frequency thing in the nose that does that thing
DeleteWho knew Ernest Borgnine was a fighter pilot?
ReplyDeleteCHRIS(CIII)