Brings back memories from the 80's.... There use to be an American surveillance programme called Snoopy run out of Akrotiri (UK Military base) in Cyprus.
It took the pilots two hours to get suited up wearing old space suits. Then they would fly a 12 hour mission at 70,000 feet. The take off and landing was that precarious they has to have two sooped up range rovers racing down the run way to stop the wing tips from touching the deck. They could land in anything over a four knot wind. Ahhh the good old days, I still remember their commander... a colonel who looked just like John Wayne and smoked big fat cigars. Just thought I share the old memory :)
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Wow, that looks just impossible!
Wow, is that real? isn't it a spy plane, I find it quiet amusing, what if this plane had to do an emergency landing on enemy soil :)
Brings back memories from the 80's.... There use to be an American surveillance programme called Snoopy run out of Akrotiri (UK Military base) in Cyprus.
It took the pilots two hours to get suited up wearing old space suits. Then they would fly a 12 hour mission at 70,000 feet. The take off and landing was that precarious they has to have two sooped up range rovers racing down the run way to stop the wing tips from touching the deck. They could land in anything over a four knot wind. Ahhh the good old days, I still remember their commander... a colonel who looked just like John Wayne and smoked big fat cigars. Just thought I share the old memory :)