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  • er,spy plane above ?

  • and its this video that makes me feel like a kid again and dream of being a astronaut.

  • the guy at 01:52 looks like tintin

  • SICKKKK

  • These planes are better than drones as you can't be corrupted or hijacked by software. They'll keep it around for some time. My favorite plane.

  • Its really too bad the government is retirying the u-2 spy plane for another stupid plane that can take human decisions

  • 6:47 BEAUTIFUL!

  • Thats an Aussie car at the beginning, not an American one!

  • This was fucking magical... Reminds me of how small we are in the grand scheme of things, and how we should treat our only home with more respect.

  • This is amazing. Most of you are probably not aware that the Air Force doesn't offer joyrides in the U-2. It's almost unheard of. The number of civilians that have gone up in this plane may only number in the few 10's, if that. May must have friends in the Pentagon because only orders way up in the chain of command would make something like this possible. Incredible.

  • They decided to save money on the wheels, hahaha

  • It was the U-2 spy planes that gave us pics that Soviet missiles were heading towards Cuba in 1962 and JFK successfully prevented it.

    It was the U-2 spy planes that gave us pics of mass graves in Srebrenica in July 1995 where Bosnian Serbs massacred 8,000 Bosniaks that lead NATO in Aug-Sep 1995 to launch massive airstrikes on Bosnian Serb positions that made the Bosnian War ended after three years.

    It was the U-2 spy planes that gave us pics to Bin Laden compound in Pakistan.

    Need i go on?

  • @Hperman09 it wasnt a u2 spy plane over bin ladens compound. a reaper drone was there

  • @Hperman09 actually you're wrong on the first one. the u2 spy planes were the planes that showed the materials already placed in cuba and was being constructed under JFK order

  • Holy crap. This guy is 46.... and Keanu reeves is 47.

    ...but this guy looks 20 years older than Keanu...

  • @ 7.45 the view everyone should have a go at seeing maybe they would appreciate this planet some more ;-)

  • @ieboe

    Spot on. We've only got on of these (Earth).

  • driven by Bono?

  • @HelterSkelterSOR too bad you don't "Drive" planes

  • ...of you? And you all have the audacity to wonder why our technology hasn't reach the heights that enables us to explore deep space yet? If we someday we even dream to colonize the deeper parts of the cosmos, of distant star systems, we should first accept that we are one people, one planet and one civilization.

  • @navigationsavionics Its not just that. The cost of 1960s to built a U2 is different from cost of building an experimental aircraft of 2010s. Costs are what keeping us Earth bound.

  • To all the people that gave this video a negative, or an obnoxious politically influenced comment...this is what I have to say to you all. While an enigmatic and inspiring video such as this is being shown, you all can't put your differences aside and just enjoy the magnificent view of our planet from above, which is by the way a unique footage?? You still find the audacity to open your mouths and let out statements of ugly cold war mentality inuendos, despite of a peace inspired view in front

  • this makes me want to be a astronaut now

  • This is an EX in every sence!

    The Russians, Cubans and Chineese eat them for breakfast.

    Fun for the US to spend some borrowed money on but.....

    Useless.

  • @SvenBolin It isn't ex in any sense. Even the Russians have an equivalent with the Myasishchev M-55. You are thinking about the 1960s when the U-2s had to directly fly over sovereign territory in order to utilise their recon cameras. The later variant U-2s have slant sensors able to monitor from international airspace. Still a highly effective recon platform which will eventually be replaced by large UAVs such as the RQ-4 Global Hawk.

  • amazing sound track.

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  • British Lightning jets used to fly higher than the U2 at 88,000 feet which scared the crap out of the Americans as they though no plane could fly higher than they could.

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  • @tampabayismyhome Space shuttles do not fly when in space dumbo. But remember they are also a British design yet again copied.

  • @Flamorgan Do you make shit up and pawn it off to be true? dumb-ass.

  • @tampabayismyhome Check it out yourself, the English Electric Lighting was a British jet fighter developed in the 1950s and can still outrun and outclimb any modern American Jet fighter even today as well as being a damn sight faster than most. The U2 only thought it was the highest altitude aircraft until the Lightning pilots were looking down on it.. Check utube and google for yourself.

  • @Flamorgan It's the lockheed SR-71, look it up yourself bro.

  • @tampabayismyhome Nonsense, the aircraft in the video is a U2 which looks nothing like a SR71Blackbird which has a max ceiling of 85k feet. The U2 has a max ceiling of only 70k feet leaving both aircraft short of the 88 k feet of the lightning flown by Flt Lt Mike Hail in 1984 when he intercepted and passed a U2 pilot who though he was safe from interception, the Lightning passed it by 18k feet so it is hardly the highest altitiude aircraft in the world, not bad for a plane built in the 1950s.

  • @Flamorgan You do realize the 88K feet was in 1984 and with a variant introduced in the 60s not in the 50s. It was also not a sustained flight so its not very impressive, if you want impressive zoom flights look up f104. Anyway by that time the sr71 was in the air and surface missiles where making such highflying aircraft obsolete.

  • @DotsOnALine I did state 1984 in my previous comment

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  • @ 8.23..........man in heaven

    any closer u might as well be nice flight wish i could have a go at doing this

  • that pilot has one of the best jobs in the world.

  • second highest people in the world eh? what about charlie sheen...?

  • anyone know the name of the music as the plane comes into view

    pm me please ty ;-)

  • lol at 9:05 it looks like hes going to just take off his helmet after saying "thanks for taking me up here"

  • There would be no greater feat in life than going into space.

  • @nitestryker7 There is always Time Travel..

  • @ScottMesicudi That just creates problems.

  • @nitestryker7 Oh Yeah..

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  • this is amazing 

  • 8 ppl are inbreed

  • i wish i can do that some day

    when i grow up i want to be a fighter pilot

  • This plane was designed in Area 51. Just a little fact there. :P

  • wonderful! i wish i would be him

  • Uh-Fucking-Mazing

  • @60520ft - Indicated air speed: 131knots - Auto Pilot On

    and at 70000ft 104 knots Incredible!!

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  • O my god what a great vid would love to go that high maby someday when I meet you Jesus my lord you will take me there and above x

  • @johnnyjod Until then, there's always acid.

  • this is the one in black ops.... its uglier than a uav

  • @dialga09 Stupid kid..

  • @dialga09 NO ITS NOT THIS IS A SR 71 BLACKBIRD DICK HEAD

  • @hummerdude123 you fucking cunt bag i know that!its a fucking SPYPLANE!!!! its fucking obvious that its not a black bird. a UAV does not have a pilot... uav's were in mw2 now in black ops they have THIS!!!

  • @hummerdude123 No this is a U2 Spy Plane, you sir have no idea what you are talking aboout

  • @hummerdude123

    ur the dickhead, cant you clearly see the title stating its a U-2 spy plane?

  • I dream of having moments like this since I was little.

  • i wish he recorded what the stars looked like at the atmosphere he was at

  • cool

  • The higest mountain in our solar system, "OLYMPUS MONS" in Mars is that high (25,000 meters or 75,000 feet). Wish we had an Olympus Mons on Earth. No one will ever conquer it. What a view.

  • The star in this video is "Planet Earth", she's far more beautiful and greater than us humans. 

  • This is from james may travel to the moon

  • .....that is amazing!! I would love to have the chance to do this!! Why anyone would dislike this vid is beyond me? 8 cavemen (with internet) still alive in the darkest caves??

  • Thumbs up if you where not bring here by call of duty

  • @airsoftroyal22e that sentence was so painful I think it gave me cancer.

  • @airsoftroyal22e are those even words?

  • @airsoftroyal22e Haha SR-71 Spy plane cousin variant.

  • what show was this on?

  • @o0bananaman0o i think in Top Gear

  • @StrangePath In case it hasn't been answered, James May on the Moon (BBC)

  • If every one of us, has the opportunity to see the earth from this distance, it would change every thing. Like the iPhone ;-)

  • wow, this is just beautiful i wish i had the opportunity to fy in A u2, man i cant stop smiling!

  • U . S . A

  • JAmes: I know this would happen, i need to scratch my face

    Pilot: just think about something else, it will go away

    Lol

  • our spy plane is in the air. :p

  • beautiful

  • Kashmir Rulez !!!!!!! :)

  • imagine being at that altitude defenceless over soviet union back at the height of cold war. you gotta have amazing nerves. the plane is beautiful. amazing, everything is compromised for every pound. indeed, an amazing technology.

  • wheres my strela

  • @clockwise28786 haha

  • I saw a U2 plane take off in South Korea back in 1995-97? Impressive to know that that almost started WAR III back in the day.

  • does the plane use satelite imaging r what?

  • pigeon 9 lol

  • Kashmir fits this plane perfectly!!!!

  • GO AMERICA!

  • who else heard Led Zep and was like HELLZ YEAH!

  • @superacecombat

    Kashmir just made this plane look even more b a if that's even possible. This would be the most amazing experience ever and behind the F-22, this is a plane I hope to fly someday although it will probably be retired in 2014. Great plane, great video, go America!

  • @superacecombat What was the name of the song? ( the led Zeppelin one)

  • @ccx8400  The song is Kashmir. It's a really awesome song!!!

  • did anyone think he was shushing him at first when they heard that shhhh noise

  • thats going to be me who......

  • I like this video a lot, I like how beautiful is the Earth

  • 2:07 Actually to can just take a zero gravity flight and that would let you know how it is to be a real astronaut. Almost have the information this guy said in this video was false.

  • YAY!!! LED ZEPPELIN FTW

  • At the highest altitude, how fast is the plane going?

  • @rickyblount2007 according to wikipedia it's cruise speed is 430mph with max speed of 500mph. These are both airspeeds. The speed relative to the ground depends on factors of wind speed and direction. Although it is counter to common sense, I've been taught that altitude has no bearing on groundspeed as truespeed=groundspeed+windspee­d as vectors. Hope this helps. =)

  • I would buy a Virgin Galatic Ticket once I can afford one.

  • i'm jealous of americans where they have all these coolest weapons

  • this dudes so lucky. i wanna fly up that high. its almost in space LOL

  • this dudes so luck

    

  • Are they in zero gravity?

  • @McChuugy nope, they are close though, at that altitude if you were falling you wouldnt feel normal gravity or weight but you wouldnt be floating either, its wierd, falling through the sky without a ruffled suit or air in your face.

    i believe the earth's atmosphere actually ends quite a ways past the international space station.

  • @metalraider187 yah, the x15 would fly just as high ad neil armstrong would feel zero-gravity

  • @McChuugy not really. The thing is they are still in the earths atmousphere which still has a gravitational force, only its weaker than on the ground. But even if they try to go out of the atmousphere, they'll still be pushed back down to earth. A craft like that needs around 6,000 more thrust to break through the atmousphere.

  • -leaves a comment about call of duty to purposely annoy someone who cares to much about comment sections-

  • thats correct

  • correction james the U-2 is NOT the highest flying spy plane the SR-71 is. The U2 was shot down by a SAM.

  • @bud467 Todays U-2 is nothing like the one flowen by Gary Powers that was shot down. He was in a U-2C, the aircraft in the viedo is a U-2S that came out in the late 80's. The current U2 has nearly twice the wingspan and power of the U-2C. The current U-2, according to the USAF, is the highest flying plane in the inventory.

  • @56chevyguy that.. that is true forgot about that. and no they are suborbital.they literaly are wearing spacesuits. thats how high they are.

  • white people are so fucking gay. I love fucking white women and cumming in their hair whilst their brother's in the next room playing that shitty game called CoD.

  • @Eloheem202 Maybe one day soon, as you lie in a hospital bed dying from God-knows-what cocktail of venereal diseases you're guaranteed to pick up fucking the only kind of girl that would fuck you, you'll realise that there are white people out there, like the ones in this video, who are so hugely more intellegent than you that you can't even begin to imagine how stupid you are in comparison, and that they spent their lives doing amazing things...

  • ...while you spent your's on youtube, watching videos about computer games, and trolling for the only kind of attention that you can get that doesn't involve weeping sores on your cock.

    You know what they say: Ignorance is bliss. Enjoy it while it lasts.

  • @yogurt123 you got so sucked in.

    

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  • what song

  • @scott55234: Zeppelin "Kashmir"

  • His hair always makes me laugh =D

  • what area  the songs

  • how the fuck did the russians shoot one of those down holy shit

  • @knt1234561

    It was parked.. lol thats the only way

  • @knt1234561

    The Russians have been working on developing workable anti-aircraft missiles since the '50s. If anything, they were very paranoid about American air superiority. They finally came up with something that could shoot down U-2 in the form of SA-2 (NATO designation), although its overall battlefield record is actually rather dismal. (SA-2s were also used a lot during Vietnam War but was not terribly effective.)

  • @knt1234561 All they had to do is design a ground-to-air missile with a range of some 14 miles.

  • sweet

  • You have to admit the sr71 is a sexy beast and this plane is like meh

  • these guys at topgear have the best job in the "Entire World" (Clarkson Voice)_

  • i like this vid just because the pilot was an asian guy..:)

  • a very very cool view of the earth,,, one hell of a plane

  • Why are you arguing about video games on comment boards on a video like this? Get a life

  • He wears that sweater in all his shows!

  • beautiful, such a gorgeous planet...

  • WHAT ARE THE SONGS ?

  • Cod sucks balls

  • @kojimapie

    Common really, you guys simply come to video's about the U2 spy plane etc. to comment on how bad you think COD ? Get a freaking life.

  • @SSTTEEAALLTTHH its just the flow of the comments. i can post whatever i want. Your just carrying on this talk about COD so you get a life.

  • @kojimapie

    Meh

  • Amazing, i have always dreamed of this, How do you get to do this? Were do you go to fly with the air force.

  • How do I get up there? I want to go!

  • Hey, no one's comparing a video game to real life. They're just making references. And if it take a video game to make them discover or learn something new, then so be it.

  • i hope one day i become an astronaut im 13 years old i can still be willing for it

  • Correction. After I finish this fifth blunt, EYE will be the highest person in the world.

  • 7:10 .... 104 knots = .706 mach at 70000 feet. wow.

  • whats that line at 5:16

  • @NoFearKieranHere It's a contrail from an airplane.

  • @NoFearKieranHere that is a regular airliner - normal plane travelling at an altitude of 30000 ft.

  • @xxmitaxx oooh, kool

    

  • 70.000ft WOW!!!

  • what backing music is being played? very very relaxing.

  • @weareleeds69 its called flight sadly its not available

  • @ieboe thanks ieboe,shame.

  • Great video.

    worthless comments.

  • what is the name of the soundtrack?

  • I want to go :(

  • a comment about call of duty is the last thing i would expect to see in a video like this this is not your fake ass army games this is real aeronautical engineering at its best

  • @houshidar558 those kids troll on every video believe me, like they are invading with a bunch of crap comments

  • shut up with all the insults and just enjoy the video...

  • Everyone stfu with the cod stuff...

  • I play Black ops But I thinks These thinks are cooler in real life!

  • @TIKIMAN When you get a spy plane look at the icon. It's a U2.

  • oh shit thats right its called the blackbird.... i though it was something else... but dude the cameras under that thing have some masive friggin resolution to see from friggin that high up down to the ground to get a clear picture! if you go to the right sight or to a museum u can see em i did its amazingly clear!

  • Wonder if they had turbelence ?

  • why are there no ace combat or hawx arguments in the comments?

  • Wow that is incredible...I'd love to have the opportunity to fly in a U-2! James May is a very lucky man!

  • Great pilot. James was getting all emotional and the Maj. was staying so technical, haha

  • I'm so jealous I want to cry a bit

  • It's quite simply astonishing!

  • next thing you know, SOVIET MISSILE shoot it down! there goes a couple big bucks haha

  • I lov that video! :D

  • I TAUT BLACK OPS WOZ GUD ...................NOT