[geeks] U2

[dave]

fernande at internet1.net writes:

>dave wrote:
>> You didn't see the news about a U2 going down in Korea last week?

>I didn't realize we were still using U2's?  I think I heard something 
>about it last week, but was on my way/doing something/etc, and figured 
>I'd here about it later.  What happened?

There have been slight changes in the design, but I believe the
military has used the U2 continuously since the mid 50s.
Details beyond that are going to be hard to pin down - it is
a spy plane after all.

Here's CNN's article about last week's U2 crash:

	http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/26/skorea.crash/

	(Summary: "A U2 crashed." not much more info than that.)

NASA has used U2s (and slight variants) for various research
programs since the 70s:

	http://www.ess.uci.edu/~cmclinden/link/xx/node30.html

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