70,000 Feet + U2 ride

[68ZooM]

Greetings, a squadmate of ours 68Catus sent us all this email with this footage of a u2 spyplane at 70,000+ feet, its absolutely the most beautiful video i have seen in awhile the view at 13 miles up all i can say is I'm envious, so grab some coffee kick back and enjoy this flight, its 10 Min's and its well worth it 

http://www.wimp.com/breathtakingfootage/

[oakranger]

WOW, that has to be a ride of a life.  I did not see how fast the aircraft was going, but it look like over 1,000 mph

[Spikes]

Too cool.

[68ZooM]

wasn't that spectacular? i burned a copy to DVD so i could watch it on the 46" LED HD it was awesome the music and his comments made the vid, i liked how he had an itch and had to use the straw, lol wouldn't want to take your helmet off at that alt.

[AKH]

That's from 'James May on the Moon'.  Most of you will know of May from 'Top Gear'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lfdbv

[Plazus]

Excellent find! Very inspirational too. 

[Strip]

U-2 is sub-sonic, a lot less than 1,000 mph....

Strip

[Drex]

My father's best friend "hojo" was a U2 pilot.  He was very much a big part of my life growing up.  I have always known all about the U2, but I had no idea it was like that.  Thank you for link.

Drex

[mbailey]

That was amazing, thanks for sharing sir!!

Best 10mins i spent today

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Mbailey

[Cougar68]

It's part of a two hour special that James May did.  It can be found with a little poking.

[eagl]

My father's best friend "hojo" was a U2 pilot.  He was very much a big part of my life growing up.  I have always known all about the U2, but I had no idea it was like that.  Thank you for link.

Drex

A couple friends of mine just transferred to the U-2.  I decided not to follow them or interview at the end of my current assignment because I have 2 small children and the U-2 deployment tempo would be extremely difficult for my wife.  And it might effectively end her career, which would pretty much shatter our post-military service plans.

I think I'd enjoy flying the U-2 and I wouldn't personally mind the deployments, but it would be very very hard on my family with no real payoff to us except for the cool factor of flying that plane.  Which wouldn't help my wife at all.  If she tells me she wouldn't mind me being gone half the year (2 months gone, 2 months back, 2 months gone... etc), then I still might go out to Beale to interview...

[rogwar]

Thanks...that was breath taking!

[xNOVAx]

Cool video..

I had a professor in college who flew U2's and SR-71's.. Was cool to hear his stories about flying those planes..

[Tac]

I didnt know that thing has only 1 wheel.. i'd hate to have to land that thing.

[Russian]

A couple friends of mine just transferred to the U-2.  I decided not to follow them or interview at the end of my current assignment because I have 2 small children and the U-2 deployment tempo would be extremely difficult for my wife.  And it might effectively end her career, which would pretty much shatter our post-military service plans.

I think I'd enjoy flying the U-2 and I wouldn't personally mind the deployments, but it would be very very hard on my family with no real payoff to us except for the cool factor of flying that plane.  Which wouldn't help my wife at all.  If she tells me she wouldn't mind me being gone half the year (2 months gone, 2 months back, 2 months gone... etc), then I still might go out to Beale to interview...

You can go for two weeks screening process....and 'not make it'.