Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

2016-03-14 Thread Anthony Smith
> Must be one hell of a trailer parked outside. Imagine how scarce everyone > will be on the day they call for a rigging crew. I have helped put the wings onto a C-47 Dakota. It was… interesting. There were photos and a link to the manual for the rigging of a P-47 Thunderbolt circulat

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

2016-03-14 Thread Mark Newton
On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:55 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > If you haven't already done so I'd also recommend Brian Schul's books "Sled > driver" and "the Untouchables" about flying the SR-71. The latter has a > section where he and his backseater flew the pre, strike day and post strike > reconnaissanc

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

2016-03-14 Thread Mark Newton
On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:17 PM, Derek Ruddock wrote: > > After doing some research after the recent Tom Hanks film re Gary Powers, I > found an amazing amount of declassified information on the U2 program, > including all the actual flight paths. Google is your friend. I visited Duxford in July.