Most of you are familiar with the U-2 doing the carrier landing workups in support of watching the French do a nuke test in the Pacific about 50+ years ago.
I decided to go through my old U-2 Flight Manual from 1990 and scan all of the pages that had any reference to the carrier landing procedures or the arresting system. It's about a 12 MB file so I can't attach it here. It was 14 actual pages that had some reference, to include minor stuff like where on the circuit breaker the Arresting Hook Switch breaker was.
If any of you would like it, send me your email and I'll send it to you. It is certainly a tiny and unique segment of Naval Carrier Aviation.
I've attached one of the pages that I think you'll like. BTW, if you don't like the way the procedures they flew, don't blame the U-2 pilots! They had Navy guys teach us this crazy shit!
I decided to go through my old U-2 Flight Manual from 1990 and scan all of the pages that had any reference to the carrier landing procedures or the arresting system. It's about a 12 MB file so I can't attach it here. It was 14 actual pages that had some reference, to include minor stuff like where on the circuit breaker the Arresting Hook Switch breaker was.
If any of you would like it, send me your email and I'll send it to you. It is certainly a tiny and unique segment of Naval Carrier Aviation.
I've attached one of the pages that I think you'll like. BTW, if you don't like the way the procedures they flew, don't blame the U-2 pilots! They had Navy guys teach us this crazy shit!