Lockheed U2/TR1 "dragonlady"

Somebody have some informations about this plane ?-

Here you go Nans found this for you:


www.vliegtuigen.net...


hope it helps



blackwidow (reporting from hospital)

It is only U-2S that is "DragonLady"..

1) U-2S first appeared in October 1994.
2) Modular design.
3) Photo, electro-optic, infra-red and radar imagery
4) Atmospheric sampling and crop or land managment photography.
5) H-cam and IRIS-III
6) SYERS (near-real-time NRT electro-optic system.)
7) ASARS-2 (SAR radar.)
8) Senior Glass, Senior Ruby and Senior Spear (SIGIT sensors.)
9) There isnt really a "point nine".

Here you go, happy now?

Sorry Nans that wasnt in English was it?

Here's another site, its the dragonlady association:

www.u2dla.org...


try this?



blackwidow (reporting from hospital)

No, BW the first site was in english (Or my alien translator is bugged ?)

Anyway thanks for the specs of the craft. I was guesing if this plane was sub or super sonic...

Originally posted by Nans DESMICHELS
No, BW the first site was in english (Or my alien translator is bugged ?)

Anyway thanks for the specs of the craft. I was guesing if this plane was sub or super sonic...

It has straight and long wings. And jet engine without afterburner.. max speed is something like 500mph/800kmh (book tells that "more than 430mph").. and fact is that the max speed is 0.8mach, if it flys (dives) faster it will break into a pieces.

It just flys high 23000-30000m (book tells that 80000ft) and has ver good sensors.

[Edited on 9-9-2003 by FULCRUM]

Sorry about that Nans, I've left my glasses at home and cant see to well here(hospital) hopefully my son or partner will remember to bring them up this evening!




blackwidow (reporting from hospital)

Fabrikant Lockheed Corp.(US)
Motor : P&W - J75-P-138
Cruise speed : 745 km/u
Spanwidth : 24,35m
Lengte : 15,55m
Tall : 4,57m
Weight : 7031 kg. leeg
18733 kg. maximaal charge
Project started : 1955 (!)(It dont look like a 50's technology!)

Nans, look at my posts.

Those are the facts

Airframe (U-2) first flew in 1950s, "DragonLady" tech upgrade was in 1994.

dragonlady cockpit

Originally posted by SectorGaza
dragonlady cockpit

Think so? Maybe "mock-ups" cockpit, but not the real things.. i really would think that USAF really doesnt want to have people to know anything about their state of the art spyplane..

soviet version of u-2? M-17 "Stratosfera"
and M-55 Geofizika

(Ram-M) was designed originally as high-altitude
aircraft with a dorsal gun turret, to shot down US reconnaissance balloons

That soviet version looks like an SU-25 on steroids

The cockpit looks real, however I cant see any controls for the cameras or a camera screen, unless one of those of MFDs does it.

a reply to: SectorGaza
Although this thread is 20 years old, I should mention that first Soviet attempt at a spyplane with comparable performance to the U-2 took place in the early 1960s when Beriev proposed a reverse-engineered U-2 after analysis of the wreckage of the U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers, designated the S-13. However, the S-13 was cancelled in May 1962 without ever being built.

The M-55 was actually designed for Earth-sciences research rather than photo-reconnaissance.

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