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Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese View Post
I think I remember reading somewhere that the U2's fuselage is just an F-104 with longer wings?
One of the concepts was to use the F104 but that's as far as it got.

I can't imagine flying something whose stall speed and VNE at altitude are just a few knots abort.
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