U-2 Spy plane Most difficult aircraft to land & Impressive soft landing chased by powerful race car
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2017
- To keep aircraft from crashing, they use high-speed chase/guide cars during take-offs and landings
The process is pretty simple: The Air Force buys fast and relatively inexpensive Detroit muscle and puts a highly trained pilot in the driver's seat. Those pilots then act as ground-based wingmen for the U-2s in the air, talking them through runway operations
Because of the speeds involved, the chase cars are usually high-performance cars. They wait at the end of the runway, and when the U-2 passes, they burn rubber to keep up, calling out altitude and wing attitude over the radio. When the airplane's main gear is roughly two feet over the tarmac, the pilot deploys several sets of spoilers and flaps to reduce lift and minimize wing drop, lowers the plane down, slows to a stop while balancing on the two center wheels, and then drops a wingtip to the ground (they have titanium skidplates for this purpose) and stops. The "pogo" wing landing gear that fell off on take-off are then reattached, and the U-2 taxis to its hangar. The addition of the chase cars all but eliminated serious landing accidents.
U-2S With SYERS notably different U-2S configuration, once again on the same aircraft. The nose seen in this picture is also elongated but it does not have the cooling scoop as seen on the ASARS equipped U-2. Instead, this nosecone houses the SYERS (Senior Year Electro Optical Reconnaissance System). This camera system, the U-2's primary optical sensor, can peer deep into enemy territory and possesses outstanding resolution. Upgrades to the sensor itself, leveraging breakthroughs in multi-spectral imaging, has vastly improved SYERS ability to see through smoke, light fog and transient weather. Additionally, it sees "more" than ever before as the camera is actually capable of operating in multiple bands of the optical spectrum. For instance, maybe a vehicle is concealed by camouflage netting and it is all but non existent when photographed using traditional optics. SYERS, with its additional infra-red capability, may pick up the heat signature from the vehicle's engine, effectively countering the enemy's attempt at concealing it. In addition to SYERS, in this configuration the U-2S is carrying panoramic cameras in its "Q Bay" below and behind the cockpit. These cameras can take high definition horizon to horizon images of anywhere the U-2 passes over or passes abreast of. There has been a concerted effort by the U-2 community to be able to lug around the SYERS and the ASARS-2 at the same time. Apparently a small fleet of U-2s are equipped with this capability and feature a massive bulge around the forward fuselage, behind the cockpit where the "Q-Bay" would be.
The huge radome on top of this Dragon Lady's spine is a satellite communications system known as either Senior Span or Senior Spur, depending on how the jet is configured. Senior Span is fitted to provide the conveyance of signals intelligence collection data beyond line of sight and around the globe. Senior Spur is used for transmitting other forms of data, including image intelligence and electronic intelligence gathered by the U-2's sensors. In its latest configuration, Senior Spur may also be able to transmit data over the horizon via Ku-band satellite that is being produced remotely from another source other than the U-2's sensors. In this function the aircraft would be working as a battlefield relay surrogate for other forces
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The U2 produces so much lift it doesn't want to come down until it stalls.
You nailed it buddy!
the ground effect is much more pronounced on this aircraft because of the large wing area, I'd guess
Pilot: ok lets land
U-2: no i shall be *f l o a t y*
Pilot: for fucks sake just land
U-2: noo
Incredible catch!
Amazing capture thanks for sharing your great experience with this aircraft Great info by the way.
Fantastic capture! Thanks! :)
Wow,what a great catch!Thank´s for sharing!LIKE!Greetings!
just like landing a bicycle.
KBowWow75 no, like a glider!
I definetely thought as same as you :D
More like landing a unicycle on a tightrope
@@renancervi7954 including the wing drop. :-)
😂
Thank you for the very comprehensive description of the U2S in the video and its special configurations.
You are welcome
I think they were being sarcastic
Excellent mirage effect on the runway.
Great landing with a very fast powerful car chasing it ☺ landing a u2 dragon lady is very hard work 😣 great plane
Awesome landing shot of this strange aircraft, cool to see the chase car in action too. Great footage!
WOW extremely impressive landing!! Superb video Yuri! Cheers Matt
Great video! Very interesting
Top notch photography mate, there's no-one to touch you in aviation photography. Keep it coming.
Thanks a ton Steve ! However there are lots of people who's better than me
Thanks for sharing, incredible plane. Love your page, so many great videos of great planes.
A very nice catch of a rare aircraft. Nice view down the runway. Enjoyed this.
Back in 1966 I was assigned to the 4080th SRW and we were flying out of Operating Location OL-19 Barksdale AFB. Their was a U- Pilot Capt. McClaine who could land the plane and take in from the runway and then taxi to the hanger shut the engine down and never have either wing touch the ground. Never saw anyone else do that.
Super impressive to see!! Fantastic video mate! :D
Stunning view from here !
Was not aware of this! Thanks!
I always saw it taking off, but never landing, thanks for the video
it was not like that at U-Tapao in 74.
As always, a fabulous video my friend :D
Excellent video and explanation on U2🖒🖒🖒👏👏👏
Awesome video mate!
Stunning machine.
Great video. Thank you!
Landing the Dragon Lady was not an easy job, but it's not the hardest piece of flying. Keeping her straight & level and being smooth, at max altitude, is a whole lot harder. When making a photographic pass at full altitude, you were on the absolute limit of everything at once. One mile per hour faster, and you would get compressability buffet. One mile per hour slower and you'd get stall buffet. Prod the rudder, introduce sharp yaw, and you would get stall on one wing and compression on the other, at the same time... And at any moment the fire might go out. That's ok, you can restart it. But there's a catch - you can't restart it at 70k ft. Not even close. You have to glide down to some place about 55 k ft... Now in the early '60s, 70k was over the top of the reach of all Russian SAMs, but 55 k was not. That's what happened to Francis Garry Powers. That's why the BlackBird was developed.
The toughest jobs in flying involve early testing, because you don't know what's going to happen. People like Scot Crossfield flying the X-15, or Yeager flying the X-1 and the X-2. You're going places nobody has ever been before, so there's no instruction manual...
I think landing Hafu the BlackBird, as harder than landing the Dragon Lady, and I think landing the X-15 was way harder than either. Even if you put the skids down as softly as lover's kiss, the front wheels would then bury themselves in the salt. The trick was to not hold off until stalling speed, because that made the nose higher, which meant it came down even harder. The trick was to land at about 50 ~ 60 knots above stalling speed. Neil Armstrong was told about this, and he didn't believe it, so he became one of about 4 pilots who broke the back of an X-15 because the nose slammed down so hard...
KneeDragon1962: Great reply. You seem to be the only person here who Really Knows about the U-2's stability problems. Last documentary I saw said you had about an 8 knots per hour window between stalling, or losing control,.... I recall it was something like 402 kph to 410 kph. What a Widowmaker! Seems like torture to have to maintain that exact speed envelope for hours on end. They must've had some Great Pilots. Once again, thank you for your interesting and informative reply, I'm so tired of seeing big mouth kids post garbage here. Your post is the best I've read in a long time. All the best, Patrick :-)
interesting info, especially about the x-15 and landing.
Beautiful as usual!
What do they use the cars for?
(Other than to lower the wheelies once the U2 has come to a halt)
Oh, wow, just did, sorry, thank you! :D
:)
TopFelya .m of ze
+Bunnyshooter 223 Very descriptive hehehe... thanks ;)
They don't "lower" the wheels. The wing wheels actually drop off during take-off and are recovered by the chase vehicle. Upon landing the chase vehicle catches up to the plane as it comes to a stop and they put the wings wheels back on so the plane can taxi.
very interesting, never seen that
procedure before.
Ohh wow! That was awesome!
The U2, the only plane in the world that requires a Chase car to land it.
TopFelya. Top as always.
This plane does NOT have a camera in the Q-bay. The crew that came out in the Ford pick-up was the Pogo crew. They insert taxi pogo in the wings. To land the plane, the pilot must stall the lift on the wings, this done wit reduced air speed and stall strips in the lead edge of the wings.
Nice. I didn't realise U2 were still flying. This one seems to be equiped with some sort of early warning radar inside the radome on top of the fuselage?
The pod on top of the U-2 is actually some kind of datalink antenna, if I remember correctly
Профессионал!
Я то думал как шасси на крыльях появляются, а он на крыло заваливается оказывается
The good ones make it look easy!
Great catch!
Chase car's point of view from another landing that TF talks about in the description : ua-cam.com/video/-ELjCkG4Gl0/v-deo.html
pontiac power!!!
I never realized just how wide is the wingspan on this aircraft until I saw this video with the chase cars there which give some perspective.
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Hi Javier ! Could you please help me with translation ? I want to translate my last video
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@@javierstieben9465 Thank you Javier
"Back in the day" in Thailand. We had a U2 stationed with us (F-105"s) back then they didn't chase them with any thing. the radio contact was by the runway. there were 2 men waiting where they thought the plane (jet powered glider) just about stop. They would if possible grab the end of the wings and hold them up until the wheel struts were inserted in the wings. If they couldn't catch up, the "rub bars" kept the wings from the ground. Weight was this crafts' enemy. It was designed to operate at high altitudes. The engine was operated in spurts, to save fuel and not leave a contrail. They are still in use today. although SR71's and satellites do most of what the U2 used to do.
Australian power!
Great job...
I sat on the U2 way back in the desert. It was one of the 2 coolest planes I ever baby sat in the USAF.
Angry mother: "But a babysitter is not supposed to sit on the baby!"
"You see, he's from the air force.."
TopFelya: Nice video! But wouldn't those long delicate wings sustain some tweaking and damage if the wingtips hit the runway? Don't they have a way to stop that doesn't require dragging part of the plane? Titanium tipped or not, it seems Way Primitive for such a sophisticated plane. Thanks, Patrick :-)
The wingtips have titanium skids to protect them, as the U-2 tips over when it does not have enough airspeed for the wings to generate lift
What's the nacelle for on top? Underneath I could understand, but at that altitude what can the aircraft be interested in above it?
It's some kind of GPS antenna iirc
- Where are the wheels ? - We don't have the budget anymore. -Alright fck it.
AlexandreHimself Damm that really was funny lol
They had enoug budget but this way the plane has less weight. In high altitude flight 1kg added mass means 1m less maximum altitude.
thx for explaining that
Ахахаха nice!
A Jetpowered Glider 😉😁
The spoiler deployed just before touch down is for controlling the bank angle of the airplane not its glidepath (only the RH spoiler deploys, reducing lift on that wing).
Landing spoilers are inboard of the roll control spoilers and deploy in unison after touch down.
really good job.
Is this the U-2S?
I thought this was gonna be a self promotion or a scam but...it made me leave a like
Thank you for the "like"
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landing gear interesting
Before you can fly this plane, you must master the bicycle.
how much extra for a couple more wheels?
R Lyle several hundred pounds extra weight, the U2 Is a very lightweight aircraft, it would not be able to fly as high as it does with that extra weight
Deputy sheriff quite correct.
Not needed for a Canberra B57 landing and it also flies above a 85,000.
www.nasa.gov/missions/research/b-57_feature.html
R Lyle it cost the plane airspeed and altitude and those are very important when your plane in at a very high altitude.
sichere but the b57 is a military aircraft not safe when flying over soviet territory. They need a small aircraft able to bring a powerful camera that could fly roughly 70000 feet.
All phases of flight are sensitive with the U-2. Cruise flight at its operational ceiling is normally critical as the range between the stall speed and the critical mach is very short. Landing is dangerous when a detachable pogo wheel doesn't drop during the takeoff and the landing has to be performed with the said wheel in place. I learned all this from U-2 pilots.
1:25 for the Red Arrows ;)
how do they take off the wheels when the plane takes off, or do they just fall off at takeoff speed
scott brady they just drop off
scott brady about 1:15 here
ua-cam.com/video/nBVoVeoDFno/v-deo.html
Pretty mad really
There is still no replacement for the old Dragon Ladies. Who would have thought these old birds would still be flying and on duty today? Dragon Ladies protected us in the past, in the present, and probably deep down into the future. I think the Dragon Ladies and the BUFFs are having a longevity contest.
'Detroit muscle"... actually made in Australia
I noticed it was a Holden Monaro too with the different nose when they were exported as a Pontiac G8.
Still, General Motors V8 in it though.
NRCustom thats true
No!! America makes the best cars. It is detroit muscle Shut up! We are the best in the world, land of the free! Home of the brave!!
except this particular car was made in Australia. The engine is from the USA only.
Bradley Querruel thats because we let them make it for us!!!!
what is the purpose of having the landing gear in this configuration?
Parallax Weight reduction.
yep, and i think it was difficult to insert a landing gear in the gliderwings who are thin...some small glider like the Swift light PAS (it's a flying wing) use small rollers at end of the wings
Weight reduction and more internal space
Very cool!
Goodness its challenging job for those folks
Wow good catch didn't realize how flimsy the wings are
Flexible not flimsy
Pilots ? No sir these are astronauts hahaha
what is that hump on top of the fusalodge on the U2.
thanks for the explanation for the hump on the U2's back
The Hump is a very sensitive intelligence gathering pod full of computers and electronic instruments.
I remember when a U2 was shot down over Russia around 1960. Beautiful plane
Flight originated from Peshawar, Pakistan and the plane was flown by Francis Gary Power.. Pakistan was put on SHIT list by USSR for allowing a spy plane taking off from its airfield.
Always wondered why they just didn’t add a small pair or wheels, similar to the b52 or harriers out on the wing
they do, but the ones on the U-2 are jettisoned on takeoff i think
@@iR-80 yeah and it’s done like that to save weight, but surely they could’ve spared a few tens of kilograms for wheels which would make flying these so much easier
Of course the chase car is an Australian built, Holden Commodore that's rebadged as a Chevy SS in the USA. or it first was a Pontiac G8, I think?
Powered by an American v8, like the majority of your muscle is over there, brought together in a beautiful harmonious display of Ameristralia pride.
Stephen Woods It's actually a 2 door Holden Monaro, which was sold in the US as the PONTIAC GTO. The 4 door Holden SS Commodore was sold in the US as the Chevy SS.
S-75's breakfast.
Классное видео классного самолета
I got to touch the wing of one at Lockheed in Palmdale.
Anyone here from weekly dose of aviation?
All that wing surface area makes it a rather stable aircraft to fly.
It's really not
U2 -best band in the world.
Blackbird even better.
This aircraft marked the past Century with its technical '' unusual '' constructions by Johnson (reduced landing gear with 1 ton savings) and achievements in spy flights.
The wheels on each side of the wings didn’t drop properly.
The U2 lands like a Glider - only a single main wheel to balance on. Once stopped, the out-rigger wheels are attached by hand, so the aircraft can taxi to the hangar without grinding the wing tips on the concrete. An even tougher landing was when they actually landed (and took off) from an Aircraft Carrier stationed off South America.
It has two landing gears, like pretty much all sailplanes. What are you talking about?
When they first started, they used a Chevy Corvette convertible with the big engine,,,,,,,,,,,,,, there's a video of it on youtube,,,,, blessings to all stay well!
So they dropped retractable wing wheels to save weight, but then later they installed a giant heavy radar on top of the plane...
So? saving weight on landing gear means you can add weight somewhere else.
Weight distribution
Yes gathering information is it's job not rolling around on pogos.
They made it lightweight to go higher....less weight to reach 210000 mts...you cant fly ir without a space suit...
isn´t a radar, its a LINK 16 GPS antena, weights about 550 ibs, almost ALL vulume that you can see on the ¨radar¨is nitrogen to cool down the antena.
atras aterrizo el boina verde del commandos...
Thats how I land my unicycle at 160MPH
That is one weird bicycle.
The airplane is hard to get down from altitude--a lot of factors here--but landing is not that difficult. Runway length/crosswind components are the crucial factors.
Maybe i missed something. How would chase cars prevent serious landing accidents? Maybe taxiing accidents....?
U-2 pilots can't see the ground while in the cockpit. The chase cars are driven by other U-2 pilots, who radio things such as speed and altitude back to the aircraft so the pilot can land safely
The car is an Australian made GM HOLDEN MONARO. It was also made in LHD and sold in the US as a Pontiac GTO
TopFelya A few made their way to England. They had a 5.7lt Gen III V8 engine under the bonnet. The 4door version is sold in Australia as the SS Commodore, with the current version hiding a 6.2lt V8 under the hood.
Vauxhall Monaro in the UK iirc. As you can tell by my name I'm afflicted with the GTO disease and had to come check this out. Too cool.
А парашютист на заднем виде откуда вывалился? Не из кабины случайно?? Лишний оказался...
Just like landing a LF-22 Starling... Except landing the starling usually results in the plane exploding
Shouldn’t the u-2 have gears on the wings?
the wings are to thin,and side landing gears add lot of weight
First flights with this plane they used a sextant to find their way.
Larry Monske, Were those two seaters?
nope 2 seater is for training.
That parashute lol spy plane has been spied by hahaha
With two tyres only ??
Yes
Самое охуенное в этом видео как трелит щегол)
TopFelya, говорить "два шасси" не корректно, шасси - вся система, которая может состоять из нескольких опор, в данном случае это шасси с двумя опорами (стойками) велосипедного типа
TopFelya всегда рад помочь
S-300, S-400, S500 ready to fly
Миг 31 доберется до него.
Not a Race car , a CHASE car .
Lockheed U-2 . A Kite with an Engine .
The blue car is not a Detroit muscle car, it was made in Australia as a Holden Monaro and exported to the USA. Not sure what you guys call it.
They used to use Detroit muscle cars for this, but they may have begun to use Tesla P100D's instead. Probably because the P100D is the quickest accelerating car in the world, relatively cheap (for the performance level), easy to maintain and has the highest safety rating. www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/news/a27570/air-force-tesla-u-2-spy-plane/
tesla fuckesla
don't forget the fact that Tesla is also an American car company as well ;)