1960 - Cold War, Aviation: Project HASP, U-2 Crow Flight Jun-Jul60 R1 of 2
Entrance gate w/ sign above: Laughlin Air Force Base w/ traffic thru.
15:12:08 WU-2A towed backwards; men lower & remove tow-bar. LS pilot raising canopy.
15:12:37 Man making up flight plan holders; two airmen assembling sampling filter screens & putting in plastic bag. CUs. Pilot discussing flight plan map .
15:13:33 Two airmen / technicians preparing camera, putting into carrying case. Airman w/ pressurized airsuit, helmet.
15:14:41 Sampling filters fitted into nose of U-2 plane, CU rotated. Fueling & preparing plane.
15:15:33 Pilot in pre-flight medical exam, temperature, blood pressure, interview. Served meal.
15:16:19 Ground crewman in plane; men moving pressurized suit, helping pilot into it suit & shoes / boots & helmet liner & helmet. CUs. Pressurizing / inflating suit, setting up microphone & testing.
15:19:18 Fitting outer covering. Man out of PSD-5 van to plane w/ ??. Pilot in suit hooked to breathing system w/ crewman; signing flight book & both out of van to plane, helped on w/ parachute & into cockpit.
15:21:24 MS pilot waving out canopy window, service truck leaving; taxiing begins seen from helicopter.
Atomic Radiation Monitoring; Radioactive Particles; Spy Plane;
NOTE: Good quality & interesting shots.
NOTE: Crow Flight series was part of the High Altitude Sampling Program (HASP). Pilot seen here is Charles B. Stratton who commanded the 100th SRW at Davis Monthan AFB in mid-70s. He is also a survivor of a “bailout” from a U-2 at over 70,000 ft in early 1960s described in the Flight Journal Magazine issue of October 2010.
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1960 - Cold War, Aviation: Project HASP, U-2 Crow Flight Jun-Jul60 R1 of 2 Entrance gate w/ sign above: Laughlin Air Force Base w/ traffic thru. 15:12:08 WU-2A towed backwards; men lower & remove tow-bar. LS pilot raising canopy. 15:12:37 Man making up flight plan holders; two airmen assembling sampling filter screens & putting in plastic bag. CUs. Pilot discussing flight plan map . 15:13:33 Two airmen / technicians preparing camera, putting into carrying case. Airman w/ pressurized airsuit, helmet. 15:14:41 Sampling filters fitted into nose of U-2 plane, CU rotated. Fueling & preparing plane. 15:15:33 Pilot in pre-flight medical exam, temperature, blood pressure, interview. Served meal. 15:16:19 Ground crewman in plane; men moving pressurized suit, helping pilot into it suit & shoes / boots & helmet liner & helmet. CUs. Pressurizing / inflating suit, setting up microphone & testing. 15:19:18 Fitting outer covering. Man out of PSD-5 van to plane w/ ??. Pilot in suit hooked to breathing system w/ crewman; signing flight book & both out of van to plane, helped on w/ parachute & into cockpit. 15:21:24 MS pilot waving out canopy window, service truck leaving; taxiing begins seen from helicopter. Atomic Radiation Monitoring; Radioactive Particles; Spy Plane; NOTE: Good quality & interesting shots. NOTE: Crow Flight series was part of the High Altitude Sampling Program (HASP). Pilot seen here is Charles B. Stratton who commanded the 100th SRW at Davis Monthan AFB in mid-70s. He is also a survivor of a “bailout” from a U-2 at over 70,000 ft in early 1960s described in the Flight Journal Magazine issue of October 2010.