> Unstalled a u2 apparently "just wants to fly" and coaxing
> it down was apparently a difficult task.

I read about a U2 incident over ConUS (continental US).
Flight was being handled by normal air traffic control
centers.  Pilot was somewhere over Utah(?) -- as normal,
pretty high up -- and reported his engine had flamed out.

Controller was thinking emergency and asked pilot his
intentions.  Pilot said he was going to glide to his
base in California -- he was just giving them a heads
up that he couldn't accept any reroutes or holds.

May be ap apocryphal but probably has a grain of truth.
Starting at 70,000' with U2's reported 23:1 engine out
glide ratio, plane can go over 300 miles before landing.
[Engine out glide ratio may even be higher than that.]

						Lee Jones
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