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| Topic Started: 25 Jan 2009, 03:24 PM (158 Views) | |
| Andy3536 | 26 Jan 2009, 09:53 PM Post #11 |
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There's no evidence that i can see of his aircraft being broke. Only the story that was circulated by the states immediately afterward which was a coverup saying the pilot may have passed out over Turkey. The Russians reponce was pretty awful though. They initially fired 3 missiles at it and only one fired up, then not knowing they had hit it other batteries fired a further 13 missiles hitting a perusing Mig that couldn't make the altitude, and another SAM battery didn't fire as they wern't on duty that day. Edited by Andy3536, 26 Jan 2009, 09:54 PM.
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| Sig226 | 26 Jan 2009, 10:00 PM Post #12 |
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he possibly may have stalled............at altitude the difference between stall speed and mach buffet on early U-2's was something like 6 knots!! |
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| Andy3536 | 26 Jan 2009, 11:18 PM Post #13 |
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When the info available doesn't say anything like that and the chasing Russian fighters couldn't reach altitude to catch him. He must have been well over 60,000ft. |
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| cimmee | 27 Jan 2009, 06:43 PM Post #14 |
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I have read a little more about Powers than what is contained in Wiki. |
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| Andy3536 | 27 Jan 2009, 07:28 PM Post #15 |
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So have i, if only a little. But it still remains the case that the guy survived, returned and wrote a book on the subject yet you can't find any indication over the internet on numerous sites that talk about the incident that there were any problems with his flight. And if there were problems the pursuing soviet fighters wouldn't have had the problem reaching his lowered altitude. |
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| Sig226 | 27 Jan 2009, 09:15 PM Post #16 |
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I seem to recall reading something about him manually climbing out of his crashing a/c because he didn't trust the spooks not to have 'fixed' his ejection seat ! It may have even been an improved version of the V75 (SA-2) that bought him down, because America lost major R Anderson on a flight over Cuba to a SAM -2 during the missile crisis.........and the Red Chinese shot down a couple of Nationalist Chinese U-2's |
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| cimmee | 29 Jan 2009, 07:01 PM Post #17 |
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I think the egress seat was left out to save weight. I guess Powers was rather hard to get along with. Too bad he was killed in a helo accident. |
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