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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 31, 2016 23:44:48 GMT 12
Check this out, from 1967. Had this aircraft visited New Zealand and got zapped? It looks almost like the roundel that the RNZAF adopted three years later
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 1, 2016 9:43:44 GMT 12
Nice, cricky how do they keep them from scraping a wing, saw the
balance wheels when she was parked but not during the roll out?
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Post by Bruce on Aug 1, 2016 10:27:02 GMT 12
Nice, cricky how do they keep them from scraping a wing, saw the balance wheels when she was parked but not during the roll out? The U2 will always scrape a wing when landing - they have skids on the wing tip. The "Pogo" balance wheels are unpinned for take off and fall off as the wing lifts. They are put back on after landing to taxi back to parking. |
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Post by davidd on Aug 1, 2016 13:37:17 GMT 12
U-2 tail number '722 sounds like the aircraft that was based at Harewood in (was it 1966?) for a period of months.
David D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 1, 2016 15:25:00 GMT 12
OK, interesting. I wonder what the bear and the alligator in a barrel relate to.
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Post by shorty on Aug 1, 2016 21:52:50 GMT 12
Is the Bear from the State Flag of Alaska (flying from there over Russia?) The alligator looks familiar from a comic strip (Pogo perhaps?) maybe from Florida for flights over Cuba?
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Post by tbf25o4 on Aug 2, 2016 9:56:46 GMT 12
U2 66722 was the aircraft based at Christchurch for Operation HiCAT and used callsign "APEX 22" now resides in the USAF museum at Wright Patterson Dayton Ohio.
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