James May from Top Gear goes a step further...

Kitsune · 08-07-2009, 03:48 PM

Flying in a U2 Spy plane, 70,000 feet in the air.

Impressive and beautiful.

MCMLXXXIX · 08-07-2009, 04:07 PM

yea that shit is freakin amazing!
i would love to go to the edge of space!

sirantsE90 · 08-07-2009, 04:48 PM

wow. hopefully one day i will be able to experience something like that

sparkyg · 08-07-2009, 11:14 PM

wow, experience of a lifetime

darkphantom · 08-07-2009, 11:27 PM

Oh my goodness. I was smiling all the way through the video. Very emotional....I can only imagine the experience he was having....

"One day, if not our children, then their children, will go to the moon just to have a cup of tea"

Bartman619 · 08-08-2009, 12:58 AM

hopefully he doesn't crash it like he did on that dragster.

MCMLXXXIX · 08-08-2009, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Bartman619

hopefully he doesn't crash it like he did on that dragster.

that was Richard Hammond

Bartman619 · 08-08-2009, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by MCMLXXXIX

that was Richard Hammond

sorry...you're right...that was Hamster not Captain Slow.

Blake · 08-08-2009, 02:32 AM

for those who have never flown before, this is every pilot's dream. i would kill to be in may's place. absolutely spectacular. i'd pay a considerable amount of money to take a trip like that. as soon as you start flying, all you want to do is reach higher and higher. without taking a rocket, that's about as high as you can go. envy!

TunedM2C · 08-08-2009, 10:45 AM

Awesome ride.

quagmire · 08-08-2009, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Blake

for those who have never flown before, this is every pilot's dream. i would kill to be in may's place. absolutely spectacular. i'd pay a considerable amount of money to take a trip like that. as soon as you start flying, all you want to do is reach higher and higher. without taking a rocket, that's about as high as you can go. envy!

+ infinity

Why Captain Slow of all people? I bet he peed himself going faster then 80 MPH.

c0nstant · 08-08-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Bartman619

hopefully he doesn't crash it like he did on that dragster.

i dub this: 'trying to be clever fail'. 0/10.

Blake · 08-08-2009, 09:03 PM

i just finished watching the full documentary. very good, well produced.

jrsbeamer335 · 08-08-2009, 09:21 PM

aaaaaamazing

one day, one day

E90SLAM · 08-09-2009, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Blake

for those who have never flown before, this is every pilot's dream. i would kill to be in may's place. absolutely spectacular. i'd pay a considerable amount of money to take a trip like that. as soon as you start flying, all you want to do is reach higher and higher. without taking a rocket, that's about as high as you can go. envy!

its just that simple ambition to take human to reach the moon and beyond!!!

asdflkijd · 08-11-2009, 07:57 AM

oh wow, how great would that be.. LOL, "aww... I knew this could happen.. I face itches" hahahhah

335e92tx · 08-11-2009, 08:10 AM

I always understood the U2 was no joy to fly. There is supposed to be a very narrow flightspeed. To fast and the wings wont take it - to slow and it will fall out of the sky.

Blake · 08-11-2009, 09:57 AM

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I always understood the U2 was no joy to fly. There is supposed to be a very narrow flightspeed. To fast and the wings wont take it - to slow and it will fall out of the sky.

well that all depends if you want to fly at the edge of space or not. i would say sticking to a 10kt window would be good enough for me as long as i got to cruise at 70,000ft.

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