Posted on 07/08/2004 6:15:27 PM PDT by b4its2late
Just heard it on the news at top of hour. Crew believed dead. Waiting for more info.
Gary Powers..........that was quite an event. The world was wild with anger that we dared to overfly the soviet union!
I was at Fleet Combat Training Center - Atlantic...
I never really went anywhere. Needs of the Air Force out voiced the needs of the Navy on base. It was still fun, though. Our shop technically didn't exist.
I remember walking through town, and people commenting, "We have *Navy* personnel here??"
Hehe, well kept secret, LOL!
LOL...
The Soviets shot one down when Eisenhower was President.
Francis Gary Powers was shot down by Russians because he was afraid of the plane and never kicked it in the ass and let it do what it was designed to do. Test pilot loved the plane. Said it was unbelievable. Powers was afraid of it.
there is only one person in a U2.
good story, but the 100,000 feet is a little bit off.
wonder what the tail number was/is????
hello, i was at tuslog det 3-2 at the same time. remember your reports.
i got the wrong radar site. i was thinking of the "devil".
I've never heard that Powers was afraid of the plane.
But I was still playing student when this was all going on!
Had a friend who flew 'em. But heck, what did he know?
knew most of the drivers wonder if i knew him (not the ones in uniform)
Yeah .. something like that ..!!
BTAIM the altitude figure was provided at a "classified briefing" when I attend Squadron Officers School in '68. I was stationed at Perrin AFB in the late 60s. I was at our Radar site during and ADC exerecise. All of the Radar Intercept Officers were excited because they we "lookin for" an SR 71 track. I remember observing over one of my friend's shoulder and that dude crossed the screen in about two sweeps of the radar. It was heading west and hauling @ss!!!
Our call sign at Wheelus was Farnsworth. Our detachments were located in Misurata and Benghazi. TUSLOG sounds familiar to me but I really can't place it.
we were on the black sea at samsun. about 40 0f us.
I remember that incident, and seeing a news report about it on TV.
The shockwave was picked up by every seismometer in SoCal, and someone at CalTech (I believe) had gathered the data and plotted it on a map.
The chart showed a very clear track pointing straight at -- you guessed it -- Groom Lake, Nevada. I forget what the plotted speed was, but I recall it to have been very high, over 6000 mph.
Whether or not that was Aurora, or if speculation about Aurora is correct, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure that there was definitive evidence of a very high speed object traveling over SoCal that day, and that it was probably not a meteor that happened to be heading straight for Area 51.
That was ten years ago. I suspect our "men in black" have not been idle, God bless them.
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