Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: mjt@mcnc.org (Michael Tighe) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: U2 Shootdowns Message-ID: <11125@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 4 Nov 89 04:12:56 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 31 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Michael Tighe > From: lanl.gov!cmcl2!yale!spock!soup (Constantin von Wentzel) > In article <10579@cbnews.ATT.COM> you write: > >> From: Michael Tighe >> *Many* U2s have been shot down. They are just not publicized. Another U2 >> victim was Major Rudolph Andersen, who was shot down in over Cuba during >> the Cuban Missile Crisis. He did not survive. > Yeah, he was shot down but the difference was, that he had to fly at a > relativly low altitude to confirm the mislle buildup over cuba. Since the > U2 is a relativly slow flying plane it is no real wonder HOW he got shot > down. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that the U2's used over Cuba had > to fly low, this is what I remember seeing in a film about that crisis a > year ago. There is rather extensive display on the Cuban Missile Crisis (and Aerial photo-reconnaissance in general) in the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum. They have lots of photos, and audio-visual displays with the pilots who flew the missions. It is definitely worth checking out if you are in DC. According to this display, the U-2 flew the high altitude missions, and RF-4C's flew the low level missions (some as low as a few hundred feet). So perhaps the film you saw was that of a RF-4C, not a U-2. ------------- Michael Tighe Internet: mjt@ncsc.org