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Member Since: December 21, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 03:59 PM UTC
This one is close to being as good as it gets.

On 3 August 1959, a then super-secret U2 made a dead-stick emergency landing in the
middle of the night at a tiny airport in the Rocky Mountains following
a flameout at 70,000 feet...

The Cortez Colorado airstrip is at 5,900 foot elevation and the strip is 7,200
feet long and 100 feet wide... It is nestled in a valley surrounded by tall peaks...

The U2's pilot was a Taiwanese ROC fighter pilot trainee being checked out in the U2...

...you cannot make up stuff like this...

Check it out here: www.hmhfp.info/SG_09E.html
casailor
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Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 - 10:26 AM UTC
I don't understand what is so amazing aboout this. Jet engines in the fifties failed pretty regularly. I can't think of a better plane to dead-stick than a U2 which is really a glider with back-up jet engine. Secret aircraft crash all the time, remembe the F117s that crashed and the Air Force had poeple combing the ground to find all the broken pieces since the materials were classified.
trickymissfit
Member Since: October 03, 2007
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Posted: Friday, May 07, 2010 - 06:04 PM UTC

Quoted Text

This one is close to being as good as it gets.

On 3 August 1959, a then super-secret U2 made a dead-stick emergency landing in the
middle of the night at a tiny airport in the Rocky Mountains following
a flameout at 70,000 feet...

The Cortez Colorado airstrip is at 5,900 foot elevation and the strip is 7,200
feet long and 100 feet wide... It is nestled in a valley surrounded by tall peaks...

The U2's pilot was a Taiwanese ROC fighter pilot trainee being checked out in the U2...

...you cannot make up stuff like this...

Check it out here: www.hmhfp.info/SG_09E.html


there a documented story about a U2 that had a flame out in Cuban airspace. It did a 300+ mile glide before making a dead stick landing
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