U-2 -vs- Global hawk
02-27-2014, 05:39 AM
#41
Get me outta here...
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Originally Posted by MikeF16
Has the U2 gotten the mod to bring the cockpit down to 16.5 yet? I completely assembled a U2 package including the wing commander endorsement but never pulled the trigger due to some of the unknowns of what happens to the brain at extended periods of time @ very high altitudes. The Al Dhafra fun-show and California politics might have played a secondary role 
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.Al Dhafra: you may laugh, but we live pretty well there. You probably don't know the full extent of U-2 life there. I'll gladly go from October-March. But forget the hot months!!
I'm a South Texas boy, but the CA weather is stunning. Beale/Sacramento is a great place to live.
I may change my mind when I retire, and have to pay CA taxes.
02-28-2014, 05:15 AM
#44
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I wonder what will happen with the U-2 airframes.
"USAF Will Scrap, Not Mothball, the A-10 The Air Force isn't planning to mothball its 283 A-10s, but simply retire the type wholesale as part of the Fiscal 2015 budget request, service Secretary Deborah Lee James said Wednesday. James told a Bloomberg defense symposium in Washington, D.C., that "the idea…is to…retire them fully" rather than put the A-10s into Type 1000 storage—meaning they could be returned to operations if needed—at the Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., boneyard."
IMHO - this is a really a dumb move.
"USAF Will Scrap, Not Mothball, the A-10 The Air Force isn't planning to mothball its 283 A-10s, but simply retire the type wholesale as part of the Fiscal 2015 budget request, service Secretary Deborah Lee James said Wednesday. James told a Bloomberg defense symposium in Washington, D.C., that "the idea…is to…retire them fully" rather than put the A-10s into Type 1000 storage—meaning they could be returned to operations if needed—at the Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., boneyard."
IMHO - this is a really a dumb move.
11-26-2014, 03:01 AM
#45
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http://aviationweek.com/defense/lock...ed-u-2-concept
This is the first I had heard on this *optionally manned* U-2 concept.
It is quite the battle.
This is the first I had heard on this *optionally manned* U-2 concept.
It is quite the battle.
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