11-13-2012, 11:14 AM | #1 |
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Camaro is Once Again Launch Chase Car for the U-2 Spy Plane
I know a lot of folks saw the article in Popular Mechanics a while back talking about how the Camaro is still being used as a chase car.
I wanted to share the video of a Camaro doing just that. Enjoy! More detail on how the Camaro (and G8) are used to assist the U-2 can be found here: For many years, our 3rd and 4th gen Camaros were used -- here's an older video with a GTO and a 4th gen Camaro
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11-13-2012, 11:25 AM | #2 |
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Interesting.
Why do they even need to do that? I assume they use a ZL1?
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11-13-2012, 11:28 AM | #3 |
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Pretty sure these were mustangs back in the 80's when I was at Eglin.
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11-13-2012, 11:29 AM | #4 |
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To record the landing and or verify landing gear is down?
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11-13-2012, 12:41 PM | #5 |
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Hmm, that's pretty cool, that car got up and going there pretty quick lol
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11-13-2012, 01:45 PM | #6 |
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The father of a friend of mine was a U2 pilot and according to him the plane is incredible hard to land and they need a spotter to help. Apparently the plane produces a ton of lift but the range between stalling it and falling out of the sky and the top speed the airframe can withstand are very close to each other.
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11-13-2012, 02:58 PM | #8 |
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I wonder of they'll let me do that with the Hornets base.......hmmmmmm
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11-13-2012, 03:08 PM | #9 |
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11-13-2012, 07:08 PM | #10 |
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FWIW, they still use a GTO, four G8 GTs, along with five Camaros...at least those are what I've seen. There might be a few more. I work the other major airframe at Beale (Global Hawk).
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If you want to see more watch James May's edge of space video.
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11-14-2012, 10:48 AM | #13 |
I was watching the wheels most of the time it is cool how it looks like they change direction
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11-14-2012, 04:56 PM | #14 |
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I believe the Stall Speed/overspeed issue being so close was on the SR-71. The straight wing on the U2 had good lift. One of the things that made it hard to land, ground effect just wanted to keep it in the air.
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