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This is how you hand-launch a U-2 after it loses a wheel

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
9 years 2 months ago

The U-2 spy doesn't have normal wheels, instead the plane relies on spindly little pogo wheels that fall away on takeoff, but sometimes they fall off early... here is a guy holding up the wing while the U-2 revs up ready for takeoff (and then trying not to be blown away).

(via jalopnik)

YouTube description:

Hand Launch

7 Comments

meh...when we launch gliders the guy holding the wing is signaling the tow pilot with his other arm and running much farther down the runway than that.

DrewNumberTwo says...

How the heck does it land?

Drachen_Jager says...

Very carefully.

DrewNumberTwosaid:

How the heck does it land?

Without a word of a lie, a guy in that same chase car reaches out and holds on to the tip as it comes to a stop.

DrewNumberTwosaid:

How the heck does it land?

DrewNumberTwosaid:

How the heck does it land?

Weird, I remember seeing a video where they grab the wing. Maybe that's only during windy conditions...

AeroMechanical says...

They must do because I can't imagine they would try to chase down a landing jet in a car like that just to get a nice view of it. I'd hate to be the guy who has to grab the wing, but the guy driving the car has one of the coolest jobs in the world.

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