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Cool U-2 Dragonlady Footage -Cockpit Video Included

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Added: Oct-14-2012 
By: SplitAtomsSoul
In: Other Entertainment
Tags: U2 Daragonlady, Cockpit Footage
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  • Would have loved to seen Felix Baumgartner splater on his cockpit window!!

    Posted Oct-14-2012 By 
    Big20walken (63.90)

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  • Is that a rear view mirror at 15 mins?!

    Just in case someones behind you i guess... like another spy plane at 75000 ft LOL

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    Steiner101 (22.78)

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  • In the early 60's my parents and I, they were both private pilots, were taking off from an airport in the Ca central valley. The tower said to hold for U-2. We were at the end of the runway waiting to take off. The plane pulled out mid runway, powered up and was off the ground in a few hundred feet. Went to a 45 degree climb for a short while then went almost vertical. This was cold war stuff and probably a CIA flight. Quite amazing.

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    ElCapitan (38.20)  

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  • Very cool vid
    Dinner party
    What do you do for a living
    Nobody would believe you, the pilot story or the chase car story

    Posted Oct-14-2012 By 
    dirkdiggler (2649.00)  

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  • I've never understood the single wheel thing on this thing. How's it supposed to stop and not tip over?

    Posted Oct-14-2012 By 
    Saros (794.90)  

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    • @Saros

      Usually the Thunderbirds are on scene. They provide the 8 rubber tyred dollies for under the wings.

      Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
      TheHandyman_Qld (373.12)  

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    • @Saros the U-2 uses a bicycle configuration with a forward set of main wheels located just behind the cockpit, and a rear set of main wheels located behind the engine. The rear wheels are coupled to the rudder to provide steering during taxiing. To maintain balance while taxiing, two auxiliary wheels, called "pogos" are added for takeoff. These fit into sockets underneath each wing at about mid-span, and fall off during takeoff. To protect the wings during landing, each wingtip has a More..

      Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
      plymouthrock (213.44)  

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    • @plymouthrock Is that basically to minimize weight?

      Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
      Saros (794.90)  

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    • @plymouthrock Thanks for the info this thing is amazing, same is your info. but y not adding more wheels like other jets I know this is a dumb question!

      Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
      naddaf24 (651.80)

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    • @plymouthrock I found this video
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCatc6ZZms

      Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
      naddaf24 (651.80)

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  • The U2 has a ceiling height of 70,000 feet (21,000 m)at a speed of 475mph I think. That jets pretty bad ass but I wanna see the SR-71 Blackbird. Ceiling height of 85,000 feet top speed 2,200mph or mach 3.5. Great video. Awesome

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    STIWRC111 (100.42)  

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    • @STIWRC111 I saw a video of an SR-71 that said Russians launched a new missle we didnt know of that they saw go up past them! He wouldn't say how fast but he said way past it's structural ratings! Prob mach 4.5. They never have said its true potential.

      Posted Feb-16-2013 By 
      MrHeteroErectus (85.00)  

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  • I have absolutely no fuckin' idea what I'm meant to be observing here. I'll just take your word for it, that it's meant to be something special. :)

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    Toadster (93.48)  

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  • From a dead stop to liftoff... 8 seconds! This is truly a jet powered glider.

    Posted Oct-17-2012 By 
    RonRay (9.80)  

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  • Beale A.F.B. Marysville Ca.

    I live about 20 miles east of there. They occasionally fly over my house.

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    ronjon (172.70)  

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  • Next best thing to a trip into space, would love to take a seat with these guys. Worth saying also that that the cruising altitude of Concorde was around 60,000 which is fairly close to this aircraft's max, a measure of the technical genius of the 1960's British and French designers for that legend of a passenger aircraft.

    Posted Oct-17-2012 By 
    sabreliner (46.10)  

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  • I wish I had hair.

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    racajakarama (85.00)  

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  • Landing that thing must be sketchier than a Chinese intersection.

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    AtticAddict (81.00)  

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  • Whoever invented direct access on those movie-players is a genius.

    Since I'm in a good mood today, here are the highlights :

    00:00 - 01:20 .. car chasing bird on takeoff
    01:20 - 09:40 .. same stuff -> avoid
    09:40 - 12:20 .. climb --> always same view --> might want to have a look, else, avoid
    12:20 - 19:15 .. cruise --> interesting the first 2 minutes, then becomes repetitive
    19:15 - 20:15 .. take off roll
    20:15 - end .. landing

    at 15:17 you can see F. Baumgartner jumping from his More..

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    Jamc666 (173.72)

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  • Hell, people jump from higher than this.

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    jim5928 (91.02)

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  • This bird has served the US well.

    Posted Oct-15-2012 By 
    USCrulz (56.40)  

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