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U-2 Carrier landings

Old 09-30-2008, 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by UAL T38 Phlyer View Post
I got to ride in the chase vehicle in Saudi in 1996. This was at Taif; the chase car was a Ford Mustang.
They switched to a Z-28 a little later - I actually got to drive it when I was at Prince Sultan about 1998...the whole thing's a pretty cool operation.

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Old 10-04-2008, 04:35 AM
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Pretty cool thread....just curious what the max demonstrated x-wind component is on that bird.....3 kts?
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Old 10-07-2008, 04:51 AM
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This tops them all...

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Old 10-07-2008, 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by VmoMmo View Post
Pretty cool thread....just curious what the max demonstrated x-wind component is on that bird.....3 kts?
15kts.

http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/u2v3.pdf

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3.4.3 for t/o w/o pogos
3.6.2
3.11.2
3.13 no voice landings
5.4 for 'hung pogo' (honey, can you give me a hand...my pogo is hangin')
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5.4.2 78.6kts.. not 78 or 79 but 78.6
7.2.4 is interesting for crew rest req...


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Old 10-07-2008, 06:53 AM
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Very cool video!
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