Astro

He's only six and jumping stowed. A prodigy I tell you!

ViperPilot: Follow your orders, locate the enemy, and exterminate him without hesitation. Otherwise your family and friends may be tasked with the same (or worse). Anybody who whines to the contrary must think they're Martin Sheen, feeling all left-wing sexy ya know Nobody said it would be easy, but the middle-American prays for you every Sunday and _that_ is who will preserve our way of life.

What color? Woof!

Yep. But 60's era Gary Powers didn't initiate the original ejection machinery - instead, he popped his windscreen manually and then stepped outside and deployed by manual ripcord. He was (rightly according to the prevailing pilot rumours of the day and since) concerned the CIA owner had influenced the U-2 cockpit design such that it would sever a pilot's legs during ejection thus circumventing interrogation in the event of a shootdown. The Company 'improved' the cockpit design after the Powers fiasco during the 70's to _ensure_ pilots couldn't get out alive (they changed the seat geometry and extended the viewing scope among other changes). Consider Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident by Francis Gary Powers; Russian accounts add value.

I am the flag police. Fear me.

I can only try and imagine the shit storm you're living in right now dude. But some local sheep tell me you may be headed home soon. Good luck and godspeed with that Woof!

These were built or rebuilt in the 80's, right? The "pogo's" detach on take off if I'm not mistaken. I'm a YF-12/SR-71 fan myself, though granted that bird's flying days are over for good. I'm still astounded that Kelly Johnson and his small crew were able to design the Blackbird (and its associated drones) using technology no more advanced than a slide rule. Ditto and to his/her family as well. Woof.

Get outta the sun and pour yourself a cold one dude Woof.

Rhyme-rorry. Woof.

So we're monitoring Iran?

Pilot accounts from the 70's indicated that the aircraft was extremely difficult if not impossible to bail out from because of its cockpit design and planform dimensions. I wonder who or what this guy was tasked with surveying?

A 'routine weather tracking mission'? AFX News Limited US spy plane crashes in southwest Asia, pilot killed - UPDATE 06.22.2005, 11:20 AM (Updating to add pilot killed, detail) BAGHDAD (AFX) - A US Air Force U-2 surveillance aircraft crashed in southwest Asia killing its pilot late yesterday, the military said in a statement released in Baghdad. 'The pilot completed flying a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (in Afghanistan) and was returning to base when the crash occurred (late Tuesday),' the statement said. However, the military would not confirm the location of the crash, 'due to host nation sensitivities,' said US Major Kelley Thibodeau, a spokeswoman for US Air Force Central Command. He added: 'We have an ongoing investigation,'. newsdesk@afxnews.com bur-wai/txw/cw/ims Copyright AFX News Limited 2005. All rights reserved Source: http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/06/22/afx2106022.html

Reservoir Dogs has nothing whatsoever to do with street racing. Nor with dogs for that matter. Why mention this title? Woof.