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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: U-2s Still Flying
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:13:25 GMT
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From: geoffm@EBay.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)


The U-2s flying out of Ames Research Center are known as ER-2s.  I don't
know specifically how they differ from "official" U-2s; I saw one at the
Moffett Field air show a couple of weeks ago, but none of the signs next
to the aircraft made any mention of this, or even acknowledged the plane's
kinship to the U-2.  Ames flew a bonafide U-2C until a about a year and a 
half ago when it was retired and returned to the Air Force.  


Geoff


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Geoff Miller                    + + + + + + + +        Sun Microsystems
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