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episode 109: Flying the U-2 Dragon Lady
This is the long-awaited episode about the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady reconnaissance airplaine, the highest-flying jet-powered airplane currently in use. Our guest in the episode is Carl LaRue who has been flying the U-2C and the U-2R in the 60s and 70s. In the episode we discuss the airplane itself, the challenge of flying it, as well as a number of anecdotes surrounding the Dragon Lady.
U-2 Videos:
- Lockheed U-2S “Dragon Lady” Cockpit Tour
- U-2 take off RAF Fairford
- U-2 Takeoff
- Ride in a U2 at Beale AFB
- U-2 Takeoff, Chase Landing
- James May rides in a U-2
Links:
- Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady
- Davis Monthan AFB
- Francis Gary Powers
- SR-71 at omega tau
- Compressor Stall
- Flameout
- ASK-13
- Lockheed Skunk Works
- Coffin Corner
- Pressure Suit
- David Clark Company
- Hypobaric Chamber
- The Bends
- Steve Fossett
- Mountain Wave Project (omega tau episode)
- Indicated Airspeed
- True Airspeed
- Mach Number
- TACAN
- VOR
- Precision Approach Radar
- Dead Reckoning
- INS
- GPS
- Ring-Laser Gyro
- Collimator
- B-47
- Yaw String
- McCoy AFB
- Sideslip
- Mendoza, Argentina
- Military Jet Fuels
- Lockheed C-130
- SA-16
- Flutter
- Aeronca Champion
- Lancair IVp
- Cessna 310
- Cessna Skymaster
- T-33
- PIO
- SAC