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The 379th! I remember ye well at Jeddah in early 1991! Diligentia et accuratio and Triangle K forever!

When I was at Wurtsmith in the early 70's we had H models. Those look like G's. Does anyone know when they switched and why?

У пиндосов тоже балбесов хватает .

The white B-model was the Wing Commander and an IP.

Yep thats me, back when i was 22 on my hands and knees with the blue ear defenders looking at the book thinking i kniw what im doing. That was 35 yrs ago.

9th FMS Machinist, fixing broken birds at Beale from 85 to 95.

I don't know if you'll see this Rusty, but did you end up as a full blown U-2 pilot? Would you say it's the most competitive program there is for Air Force pilots? Why did you decide to pursue it and did you enjoy doing it? I'm currently in AFROTC and aspire to fly for the Air Force. While I still need to really dig into the different missions of different aircraft, I think the U-2 is the bird I want to take to the skies in eventually. If I understand the pipeline correctly, I'll probably start in more conventional aircraft like the C-130, C-17, or other similarly missioned planes, and work my way up from there. Attack and Fighter jets are cool I suppose, but I don't think I want to be the one behind a gun, and flying at 70k feet, basically in space, sounds so surreal and awesome. Sure I'd be alone for hours, but that's not really much different from how I live day to day.

T38 , Come on, lets get outa dodge.....

The belly landing of T-38, the way front Pilot ran with out checking on his co pilot, was any legal action taken against him?

Spent a week tdy at Wurtsmith from Offutt. Klaxon went off above my head when walking into BX. Was tdy at a lot of SAC bases. I was your red sticker on the phone.

GOLF bombers. You know they got 16 more ALCM's in their bays by how they squat down on their carriages. Big bad mutha-hubbards. Just glad the balloon didn't go up where it was the Real Deal.

AWESOME 👍

anyone know what this song is

Lol

Nice video my friend!

I have never seen a military aircraft, modern at least, that completed a ground loop.

I was a Controller at KI Sawyer AFB. I miss the the owl whistling “Buff”.

What?? A 140 mph Ford Focus with 3 or 4 dudes in it??

I was there that day. So much fun

Good job on last landing.

What year was this

I was at Pittsburgh airport as a kid and saw a cart start of one of their KC-135’s in the 70’s. Years later I found out what had happened.

U2 is like a glider with a jet engine ...

As a child we were stationed at wafb in the 70s and every time my dad would get time off they would pull an O.R.I.....

The instructor pilot is so screwed

Good video! Being a former tower controller from Grand Forks it's hard to explain how one of these launches really looked without being there!

All perfect landings. Thanks for the footage.

My pop was mechanic on these in Vietnam.

I wanna bet it sometimes feels more like a 'Dragon' than a 'Lady', operating it continuously just above stall speed. Ain't nothing ladylike about that.. Nice vid !

Was this during a Red Flag or Bomb Comp in 1986?

The loss of tailwheel pilot would probably liked to have given that one another try...Porposing a landing is a No-no in ANY airplane...

huh. didnt know the pogos could get stuck in the wings

Driver in the chase car is also a U-2 pilot, they are doing this in alternance one flight/one chasing car

I lived at Beale AFB from 87-91 my step dad was a jet engine mechanic. I use to watch T-38 U2 and SR-71 all the time.

I had a lot of fun at wurtsmith , especially bouncing air crews thru the turn stiles !!!!! 82-88

Just listened to the Fighter Pilot Podcast interview with Col. Michael 'Lips' Phillips and he suggested searching for 'U2 bad landings'. Is there any reason why all three 'difficult' landings resulted in the U2 veering to the right? Crosswinds or something else?

@4:45 the Sutter Buttes in the distance. The only volcano in the Sacramento Valley. Good thing its dormant!

Is there steering control in the nose wheel?

Just imagine how much it costs for one flight.

Really great work by one and all ..... no casualties, except for some nerves and underwear .....

That looks like a B83? Anybody ever serve at Glasgow AFB, MT?

Those last 2 were so close!

Beautiful bird. Lots of respect to the pilots.

just curious about one thing: if the plane has no wheels to support the wings in the landing then what prevents the wings from touching the ground when landing?

why bother trying to shoot it down? seem pretty good at crashing itself. XD

5:41, some farmer in Oregon finds a wheel.

One of the cockiest instructor pilots in the T-38 squadron when I was a student ended up dead after crashing a U-2 in the traffic pattern, deemed later to ba as the result of pilot error. . Apparently it takes more than ego to fly one of these.

It'l buff out

Last pilot must be cyborg of something! No words, just wow!