'Unknown' aircraft at Akrotiri

[chevvron]

Don't know how long it will be there but on www.zoom.earth/#34.587014,33.000716,19z,map is a 'strange' aircraft lined up on 28.

[Tashengurt]

Can't see anything?

[insty66]

Unknown? It's one of the most famous aircraft around.

[RedhillPhil]

Look hard enough and you too could see it.

[taffyhammer]

Not that unknown!!

[meleagertoo]

There is a U2 and a couple of vehicles on the threshold.
Is there something there that shouldn't be there, or something that should be there that isn't?
Sorry - this has me baffled. What on earth do the replies above refer to?

[ShyTorque]

What was known as the U-2, then the TR-1, now known as .... the U-2.

[superplum]

Originally Posted by meleagertoo

There is a U2 and a couple of vehicles on the threshold.
Is there something there that shouldn't be there, or something that should be there that isn't?
Sorry - this has me baffled. What on earth do the replies above refer to?

Sshhhh - Aurora?

[Compass Call]

Looks like a 'Dragon Lady' to me.

[Herod]

That's the aircraft that wasn't there in 1975, and still wasn't there when I went back in 2004.

[taffyhammer]

Didn’t half make the hangar shake when it wasn’t there doing engine tests!

[kaitakbowler]

"If we are not here where the hell are we"

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by Herod

That's the aircraft that wasn't there in 1975, and still wasn't there when I went back in 2004.

Wasn't there in '86 when I visited with cadets for 10 days either.

[Tankertrashnav]

Lying on my pit recovering from a night in the Green Rock when someone came in and said "did you see the U2 taking off?"

Never had another chance.

[air pig]

Cobra Ball at Mildenhall today though, a far rarer beast.

[MG]

Much more interesting, I happened to just be going down a Google Maps wormhole and was looking at NAS North Island, San Diego. Someone’s had an unplanned end to their sortie on runway 36.

[jimjim1]

Originally Posted by chevvron

Don't know how long it will be there ... is a 'strange' aircraft lined up on 28.

"Dates for Bings Maps imagery can’t be determined"

[Bob Viking]

NAS North Island (Coronado)

Could there be a finer place to be based? I can’t think of one.

I know you might say Honolulu and it is a close run thing but I’d take Coronado personally.

BV

[Captivep]

I certainly didn't see a U-2 landing at Akrotiri when I was standing at the bar on the stern of Queen Victoria leaving Limassol harbour a few years ago...

[Cubanate]

I most certainly didn't see one in Akrotiri or Alconbury and I've never seen a SR71 in Okinawa.