U-2 Dragon Lady blasting off! 📹: uretskyaviation

I had the opportunity to view one of these beauties while doing touch and go's in a Cessna 172. I was headed South in the pattern at Palo Alto Airport and was looking towards NAS Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. I watched a U-2 tilt onto its tail and blast off into the sky. It was awesome! And I still managed to maintain control of my little Cessna while watching it.

What a beautiful airplane. Thank you Kelly and your great engineering department ! I’ve looked at your great photos - great job and well done !

Man, I'd tune the heck out of her radios. 🥵

Amazing

The Mythbusters U-2 program was quite informative for me.

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The paint scheme on those jets is amazing.

Thunderbirds f16s

Crazy wingspan

J-57 or F-118?

fantastic takeoff like AVRO VULCAN.

All I see is a big, slow moving pile of garbage. The only "spy" plane that was ever needed, was retired and refused upon to improve.

Super