Hi Charles!
CM>     In addition, the U-2 is also limited in its ability to
CM>     try to out turn a missile. Since I don't have access to
CM>     specific information about the capabilities of the U-2,
CM>     and wouldn't specify even if I did know, I can only speak
CM>     in general terms. The U-2, as in all aircraft, has a
CM>     limiting mach number, or speed limit. At high altitudes
CM>     this also limits the turning capability of the U-2.
As far as I can recall once I've read in a book or in an article
that at such high altitudes the pilot has to balance the U-2
within a very narrow flight regime between stall and loss of
altitude due to diminishing lift.
Thus, I doubt that the U-2 would be capable of out-turning a missile.
Uwe
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