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This is great! Rather appropriate music too....
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamnTyfkUBY
Enjoy! Mark
Enjoy! Mark
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yasotay said:I can only imagine how fun it must have been try to get an aircraft that does not want to land with a huge wingspan onto a carrier deck. Wonder what that guys insurance rates must be like!
Flyaway said:Video on link from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs.
http://worldwarwings.com/this-declassified-footage-of-flying-at-70k-ft-is-breathtaking?a=mk&var=ww2-70k-ride
sferrin said:Flyaway said:Video on link from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs.
http://worldwarwings.com/this-declassified-footage-of-flying-at-70k-ft-is-breathtaking?a=mk&var=ww2-70k-ride
This has been on youtube for two years. Then there was when James May and Adam Savage both flew at 70,000'+ in the back seat. . . (Wish there was some Mach 3+ 85,000 foot Blackbird footage.)
Maybe it’s just me but I was surprised to see the paint peeling off some of the U-2s in it. Doesn’t the paint perform some kind of small ‘stealth’ function?
Needs to have limited active ballistic missile defense role.. threats are likely know it is there, so why not use the altitude to get a jump on intercepting TBMs,Famed U-2 Spy Plane Takes on a New Surveillance Mission
Designed with slide rules in the 1950s, the stealthy high flier still has a lot to offerwww.scientificamerican.com
US Air Force sends software updates to one of its oldest aircraft midair
The demonstration marked the first time the Defense Department has modified an aircraft's code in flight.www.defensenews.com
Any ideas as to how the Air Force updated the software during the flight? Sounds like it was over some form of network enabled hardware.
Any ideas as to how the Air Force updated the software during the flight? Sounds like it was over some form of network enabled hardware.
Clearly the U-2 have a datalink. That takes care of it.
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The bigger implications especially nowadays is that It will allow digital countermeasure or updates to weapon software to be deployed In flight. Missiles etc, can be manufactured with just basic testing algorithm without any target tracking or countermeasure algorithm etc. ESM aircraft may analyze, develop and actually patch Jammer aircraft's jammer software with real-time developed technique.
As the U-2 remains one of my favourite military aircraft I thought I would start a dedicated thread for it. As well as it being one of the more venerable models of aircraft still flying.
U-2 Avionics Upgrade Paves Way For Command And Control Role | Aviation Week Network
Far from being retired, the storied U-2 is being upgraded into the U.S. Air Force’s first fully open mission systems compliant fleet.aviationweek.com
Artuµ was created by the U-2 Federal Laboratory, which in October successfully updated the plane′s software while it was flying — a first for the U.S. military. The event was made possible by deploying Kubernetes, an open-source, containerized method for automating software updates.
Artuμ is based on a gaming algorithm known as µZero, which has been used to beat human players in chess and Go, Roper explained in an op-ed on Popular Mechanics. The U-2 lab specially trained the AI co-pilot to manipulate the U-2′s sensor suite during “over half a million” computer-simulated missions, according to the Air Force.
“With no pilot override, ARTUµ made final calls on devoting the radar to missile hunting versus self-protection,” Roper wrote.
I have seen that before... It is a stunning photo with a beautiful sky.I shot this TR-1 many moons ago. The pilot is a good friend of mine.