FPP093 - U-2 Dragon Lady

Fighter Pilot Podcast

Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot

Leisure, History, Aviation, Technology, Personal Journals, Government, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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A discussion on the Cold War-era spy plane still flying high 60 years after its introduction. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0	Thanks to our sponsor National University.
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0:31.1	This is the Fighter pilot podcast episode 93 hold on to your hats because this week retired
0:37.3	US Air Force Colonel Michael Phillips joins us to discuss the still highly classified
0:42.3	Lockheed you two dragon lady spy plane. to discuss the still highly classified Lockheed
0:43.0	you two dragon lady spy plane.
0:45.0	First imagined during the height of the Cold War
0:47.4	but still highly relevant today 60 years later.
0:50.8	A reason the airplane still exists is all the crap that we got
0:55.4	on the most sophisticated spy satellites in the world can be put on a U2 and
1:00.6	it's the bad guys don't know when it's coming because the
1:04.8	sophisticated bad guys know where all the satellites are they know when they're
1:08.5	coming over and so that's why it still lives and the handful of airplanes that we have they fly every day
1:14.8	somewhere in the world some agency of the government needs something for various
1:18.8	reasons whether it's nefarious or not and the U-T two fly all the time.
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