larry@omews10.intel.com (Larry Smith) (10/15/90)
From: larry@omews10.intel.com (Larry Smith) Rick writes: >I have heard this also from a girl I went out with a couple of >times. We were talking about what members of our family did >and she said that her brother was a U-2 pilot in (?) Northern >California. I thought it odd and kept asking her if it really >was a U-2. She said that it was despite me arguing with her. >I thought they were all out of use, but who knows? ... U-2R and TR-1 aircraft are front line aircraft with Strategic Recon. Squadrons operating out of Beale AFB in Northern California. U-2Rs and TR-1s look essentially identical. I also know someone flying these birds with the 99th SRS there. He can't tell the difference when he is assigned a bird. He has to look on the placard to tell. Larry
geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) (10/16/90)
From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) The U-2s flying out of Ames Research Center are known as ER-2s. I don't know specifically how they differ from "official" U-2s; I saw one at the Moffett Field air show a couple of weeks ago, but none of the signs next to the aircraft made any mention of this, or even acknowledged the plane's kinship to the U-2. Ames flew a bonafide U-2C until a about a year and a half ago when it was retired and returned to the Air Force. Geoff -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Geoff Miller + + + + + + + + Sun Microsystems geoffm@purplehaze.sun.com + + + + + + + + Milpitas, California -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) (10/16/90)
From: Allan Bourdius <ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu> You can usually tell U-2's from TR-1's when they take off because TR-1's operate in groups of three (or so I've read) because they use their radars to triangulate the positions of enemy transmitters, etc. Allan