Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.

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[–] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Seconding this; my dad worked on the U2 for 30-odd years and he's still kicking!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Oh nice, were you guys stationed out at Beale AFB?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Sorry, I'm terrible about seeing my notifications. Yep, we were at Beale between 94 & 98, but overseas before and after that.

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  • No worries, same here. We were there from 96-00, there's a good chance we've run into each other before! There's an even better chance that our fathers worked together in some capacity, it was a relatively tiny base and the U2 program was pretty small.

    I think Beale was one of my favorite bases I've ever lived on, I used to go hiking in the foot hills basically everyday during summer. I feel like it was small and remote enough where you could get into a lot of shit as a kid without ever really getting in any trouble.

    By chance did you guys ever go to one of the Christmas parties in the old skunk works building?

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