Yes, its James May, aka, Captain Slow of Top Gear fame. - No, this isnt from an episode of Top Gear. This was from a TV special called James May On The Moon, which was made to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landings. James May has made several series that are completely unrelated to Top Gear. - The music is called Flight performed by Ty Unwin especially for this show. Im sad to say that it is not currently available on its own. - The chase cars on take off and landing are a standard part of U-2 operations. They are there to assist the pilot, especially on landing. A combination of fragile and unstable rear landing gear, the aircrafts reluctance to descend and a high approach attitude that gives the pilot poor visibility of the ground has made the U-2 very difficult to land and so another U-2 pilot follows behind in the chase car to quite literally talk them down for the last few feet. A fair word of warning. Ive been maintaining this video for over 3 years now and my patience for bad Call of Duty and drug jokes has worn rather thin. Either will have a pretty high chance of being deleted and the user blocked. When you get half a dozen of those comments a day, it becomes nothing more than spam. Please try to keep it clean and family friendly. In the spirit of the video. The only people to have gone gone higher on any sort of regular, day-to-day basis were SR-71 pilots. Emphasis on the day-to-day part. Astronauts have, of course, gone higher still, but their missions are few and far between. Same goes for special one-off record setting flights such as those by the MiG-25 prototype, F-15 Streak Eagle or any other zoom climb that exceeded 70,000ft.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:56:29 +0000
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