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Did you know that U2 landed on a navy carrier ship?
U-2 designer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson of Lockheed. Johnson made certain design modifications to the airframe, and the first test, codenamed Project Whale Tale, occurred on 3 August 1963 off the coast of San Diego. The modified U-2 lifted off from the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk without catapult assistance or incident, but its landing was a different matter. The expected “bounce” when the aircraft hit the carrier deck was damaged! I have heard that landing a U-.2 is very difficult. In mid-1963, the Office of Special Activities set in motion OPERATION WHALE TALE to examine the possibility of adapting the U-2 aircraft for operations from an aircraft carrier. CIA planners believed that if U-2s could be modified to operate from aircraft carriers, the United States could avoid the political problems involved in seeking permission to base U-2s in other nations.
The U-2, of course, has quite a history - an aircraft designed by the famous Kelly Johnson in Lockheed's mysterious "Skunk Works" (a reference to Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip, which was quite beloved at the time). The U-2 was designed to fly above known anti-aircraft missile ranges and the operating range of the interceptor aircraft of the day. Passed out of Pakistan and perhaps other locations, the U-2s overflew the old Soviet Union with some degree of perceived safety until the day when the Soviets managed to shoot one down. (May 1, 1960)This, in turn, led to the re-evaluation of the U-2 program and the controversy of basing locations arose, which PROJECT WHALE TALE was designed to address. Modifications were made to the U-2 by Kelly Johnson. (U2G)The modifications only took seven months, which was how the Skunk Works did things, fast and efficiently. They manage to get the U-2 to land on the carrier. On 24 April 1964 a single carrier-based U-2 mission to collect baseline photography of the French test site was approved. This mission was successful.. The project was canceled the decision was made to use cheaper satellites instead.Thank you Bill Kraus for bringing this to my attention
Hey @julietteandthejet , have you seen the Dragon Ladies they landed on carriers in the Sixties?
The CIA was looking for ways top improve the Dragon Lady's range, so they worked with the Navy on Operation WHALE TAIL to test the U-2's ability to land on and launch from a carrier. The idea worked well enough that several U-2As had arresting hooks added. CIA pilots used the modified U-2Gs to qualify for carrier operations, though only one operational sortie is known to have been carried out: a flight through the falloutof a French nuclear test. The later, larger U-2R kept the hook, and the outer parts of the wings could fold up. During testing on the America, the Lady was even lowered on the elevator and maneuvered into the hangar deck.
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