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  1. February 3rd, 2009, 18:41 #1
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    U-2 on aircraft carrier!

    Did you all know about this:

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...ry/q0050.shtml

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    It was a clever idea but not very practical. The carrier has to dedicate flight deck space almost totally to launching and recovering the U-2. Advances in satellite imagery and the SR-71 program pretty much made the U-2's carrier capability unnecessary, but the tests showed that it could be done.
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