Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 North of Sacramento. Training mission in two-seat model; one pilot lost, one injured. U-2 Crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 WOW-That 2 seater was fly'n around here a few weeks ago leaving Plant 42. IIRC: There was only one of those.... OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger #3720LR Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Grumpy..... U-2 CT.. 2 seat trainers of which 5 where ordered, 2 were built and delivered. U-2 D .. 2 seat mission purpose built / 2 delivered. TR-1B .. 2 seat trainer (redesignated TU-2R) / 2 delivered. and there was at least one 2 seat purpose built for NASA missions., may have been 2 built. That makes eight 2 seat U-2 variants that have flown. There may have been more but these eight can be found in published articles. I say more than these 8 because my information was published in Aug 2004. web site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Not all are still flyable, or so I've been told by my neighbor, who was a very big part of the U-2 building back in the day. He later moved over to the SR-71 program. The blue and white NASA U-2 we both see out here is a 2 seater. The other I've been told is in storage at EAFB. THX Cliff for the info OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 North of Sacramento. Training mission in two-seat model; one pilot lost, one injured. U-2 Crash When they were reporting the accident on one local news station that I was watching they said both pilots ejected safely and the crawler on the bottom of the screen told what really happened. Sad news indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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