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Old 11th Mar 2009, 08:32
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Ewan Whosearmy
 
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Ladies and Gents

This video is a collection of *prospective* U-2 pilot landings.

One of the earliest parts of the interview process with the Dragonlady community is to get them to try and land the thing (they get a couple of sims first, but they don't have to acquire any in-depth systems knowledge). It's a check of their basic stick and rudder skills. If they manage to do so, they can continue through the rest of the interview stages (and may still not get picked up by the unit); if they don't, they get chopped from the process immediately.

I talked to a high time U-2 pilot about the video. He said that all but one of the a/c in the video was returned to flight within 24 hours. What a tough old jet!
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