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U2: Life Support and Pilots
United States Air Forces Central
March 18, 2019 | 2:15
99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Life Support Technician and a U-2 Dragon Lady pilot explains what it takes to get a U-2 in the air at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, Mar. 19, 2019. Commonly referred to as the most difficult aircraft to fly in the world, the U-2 Dragon Lady has been hot to less than fifteen-hundred pilots since the first flight in 1955.(U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Franklin E. S. Harris Jr.)
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