Six years ago Mrs. Charm, Mr. Boy and I bought the rancho from a couple who were moving away from Texas. She was a homemaker. He was an airline pilot who had flown U-2 spy planes before he retired from the Air Force. I won’t mention names, they’d probably not like me to.
I’ve read about the U-2 so I have some idea of what it is like to work in full pressure suit at seventy thousand feet–more than twice as high as jetliners cruise. But, until now, I’d never seen the curvature of the earth from a U-2’s cockpit, out there on the edge of the black. Magnificent view really.
Via Flightblogger.
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