U2 (U.S.!) Forwardment

Thanks for forwarding that Bob.
This is impressive:
"One need not worry about a flameout after takeoff in a U-2. There
either is enough runway to land straight ahead or enough altitude
(only 1,000 feet is needed) to circle the airport for a dead-stick
approach and landing."

Shawn

Pretty much the same scenario with winch launching even off a relatively
short runway. By the time you're so high that you can't land ahead it's
a piece of cake to turn downwind make a short pattern and land back on
the runway into the wind. Pretty much eliminates the risk found during
aero tow where you're too far down the runway to land ahead, but not
high enough to 'safely' make a 180. Then you're forced to land ahead,
off airport which in many places is not a pretty picture.

Shawn wrote:
Thanks for forwarding that Bob.
This is impressive:
"One need not worry about a flameout after takeoff in a
U-2. There either is enough runway to land straight ahead or
enough altitude (only 1,000 feet is needed) to circle the
airport for a dead-stick approach and landing."

Shawn

Shawn wrote:
Thanks for forwarding that Bob.
This is impressive:
"One need not worry about a flameout after takeoff in a
U-2. There either is enough runway to land straight ahead
or enough altitude (only 1,000 feet is needed) to circle
the airport for a dead-stick approach and landing."

Gary Emerson wrote:

Pretty much the same scenario with winch launching even off a relatively
short runway. By the time you're so high that you can't land ahead it's
a piece of cake to turn downwind make a short pattern and land back on
the runway into the wind. Pretty much eliminates the risk found during
aero tow where you're too far down the runway to land ahead, but not
high enough to 'safely' make a 180. Then you're forced to land ahead,
off airport which in many places is not a pretty picture.

But the U2 gets to take the engine along with it. :-)
I suspect a 12,000 ft runway helps.

Shawn

Shawn wrote:
Shawn wrote:
Thanks for forwarding that Bob.
This is impressive:
"One need not worry about a flameout after takeoff in a
U-2. There either is enough runway to land straight ahead
or enough altitude (only 1,000 feet is needed) to circle
the airport for a dead-stick approach and landing."

Gary Emerson wrote:

Pretty much the same scenario with winch launching even off a
relatively short runway. By the time you're so high that you can't
land ahead it's a piece of cake to turn downwind make a short pattern
and land back on the runway into the wind. Pretty much eliminates the
risk found during aero tow where you're too far down the runway to
land ahead, but not high enough to 'safely' make a 180. Then you're
forced to land ahead, off airport which in many places is not a pretty
picture.


But the U2 gets to take the engine along with it. :-)
I suspect a 12,000 ft runway helps.

I forgot. Check out Beale AFB from Google Maps
http://tinyurl.com/dho23

Shawn

Shawn wrote:
I forgot. Check out Beale AFB from Google Maps
http://tinyurl.com/dho23

Shawn

Very cool. Thanks for posting it. Zoom in a bit and scroll around and
there are lots of goodies:

- another U2 alongside the one on the runway (to the left and behind on
the brown area - looks like a formation takeoff)
- two more U2s on the ramp
- an SR71 on a tarmac squa looks like a gate guardian
- two A10s in the northern-most dispersal, but what are the white
aircraft up there?
- 7 black a/c at the north end of the ramp. An 8th is taxiing.
What are they?

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"Shawn" sdotherecurry@bresnannextdotnet wrote in message
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But the U2 gets to take the engine along with it. :-)
I suspect a 12,000 ft runway helps.

Shawn

So, like, we should take the winch along in the glider?

Getting it to release would be interesting.

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Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
"Shawn" sdotherecurry@bresnannextdotnet wrote in message
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But the U2 gets to take the engine along with it. :-)
I suspect a 12,000 ft runway helps.

Shawn


So, like, we should take the winch along in the glider?

Getting it to release would be interesting.

Getting it to hook to something on the ground, without landing, when you
need a boost would be an even neater trick.

Shawn

This article appeared in the Feb/Mar 2005 edition of Air and Space
magazine:

http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/A.../Contents.html

-bob