Jesse C. Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Pranged in Australia, but not too badly 1 Quote Link to comment
a.d._510_n_ok Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Aging U-2 Hits Milestone Gathering Intel on ISIS February 3, 2017 A 48-year-old U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane reached a milestone — 30,000 hours of flight time — while flying a mission to gather intelligence on ISIS, U.S. Central Command said Thursday. A release from the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing said that a U-2 flown by a pilot identified only as “Maj. Ryan” hit the 30,000-hour mark while “collecting critical, real-time information to give commanders the decisional advantage” against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The high-altitude surveillance and reconnaissance plane flew out of a base in Southwest Asia, the report said. The Lockheed U-2 is only the second of the unique aircraft to reach the 30,000-hour mark. In 2016, a U-2 with the 5th Reconnaissance Squadron at Osan Air Base in South Korea completed 30,000 flight hours as the first-ever in the U.S. fleet. https://defensetech.org/2017/02/03/aging-u-2-hits-milestone-gathering-intel-isis/ 1 Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 Looks like a Chinese copy of a Japanese Shin Mewah! 1 Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Now you know why Swedish Highways have so many reinforced straight runs and tunnels! 1 Quote Link to comment
Jesse C. Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 I do love me some Aardvarks! Home based here at Miramar Air Station for quite some time. 3 Quote Link to comment
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