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From: larry@omews10.intel.com (Larry Smith)
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Subject: Re: U-2s still flying
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Date: 15 Oct 90 03:45:11 GMT
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From: larry@omews10.intel.com (Larry Smith)

Rick writes:
>I have heard this also from a girl I went out with a couple of
>times.  We were talking about what members of our family did
>and she said that her brother was a U-2 pilot in (?) Northern
>California.  I thought it odd and kept asking her if it really
>was a U-2.  She said that it was despite me arguing with her.
>I thought they were all out of use, but who knows?  ...

U-2R and TR-1 aircraft are front line aircraft with Strategic
Recon. Squadrons operating out of Beale AFB in Northern California.

U-2Rs and TR-1s look essentially identical. I also know someone
flying these birds with the 99th SRS there. He can't tell the
difference when he is assigned a bird. He has to look on the placard
to tell.

Larry