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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
They would climb at a very nice rate the first minute or so, then settle down after that, but they would easily see 20,000 feet the first minute after takeoff unless they were chock full of fuel.
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I realize that there were many variants of the U2, but a typical "published" climb rate was 5,000 fpm at low altitudes. Surely they didn't sandbag the rate that much....
20,000 fpm?
JR