U-2 Pilot Reaches 2000 Hours

[Wang Wei]

Anyone here know this guy?

http://www.beale.af.mil/highflyer/documents/HighFlyer Archive/July 28 2006.pdf

 

[scoreboard]

Why, worried he is watching you?

 

[psysicx]

Congrats Huggy.

 

[Mud Eagle]

Personally, I like the article later on in the paper where some Colonel is going off in why you shouldn't allow a 1Lt to not salute a 2Lt.

<scoff>

 

[SIG600]

Personally, I like the article later on in the paper where some Colonel is going off in why you shouldn't allow a 1Lt to not salute a 2Lt.

<scoff>

Agreed. Unless there's a student instructor relationship such as the training commands, any JO pissed another JO dosen't salut them needs to lighten up.

 

[Spooky 2]

Huugy,

Congrats as I'm really impressed!! Going to send this article down to headquarters in Burlingame.

 

[Wang Wei]

Why, worried he is watching you?

Only if he's flying submarines at the bottom of the South China Sea......

 

[Dizel8]

Congrats!

 

[Wang Wei]

Huggy,

Around 2001, my wife and I met a nice lady in Prescott, AZ. She told us about her son, who flew the U-2, retired for an Airline job, but decided to go back to the U-2. Could she have been telling us about you???

 

[Kuma]

Congrats Huggy! Wish I could have been there to help you celebrate! I only missed it by a couple of days. Damn. Please come visit before you get "retired".

 

[Huggyu2]

Wow, thanks folks. I'm sitting here in El Paso, on the way home from the Houston Airshow, and was surprised to see this.
It wasn't my mom in Prescott, and I can't think of who it would be. We do, however, have a number of U-2 pilots that have returned to the U-2 from airline jobs.
We've got about 3 more guys getting ready to hit 2000 hours soon. That will make them #19, 20, and 21 to ever do it. Amazing to have so many guys do it in a short period when it took 51 years to get 18 guys over the 2K hours mark.
Thanks again for the kind words.

 

[Huggyu2]

Wang Wei,
I think I know who you're talking about: the guy DID retire from the USAF, and flew for UAL. He was furloughed (just barely, as he was fairly senior), and was allowed to come back on active duty via a 3-year contract. He just finished the contract, and is back at UAL. He was a previous T-37 and RF-4 pilot.

Also, for those of you who follow these kind of aviation milestones, Kuma (who posted above) was the first pilot from any service to fly over 1000 hours in the T-6 Texan II.

 

[AC560]

Congratulations and thank you for your service.

 

[talondriver]

Huggy,

That's a lot of hours going in a diaper.

Congrats!!!

 

[bobs98tlr]

Huggy.....congrats. Keep up the great work. Ill see Buck hopefully this week. Ill pass on the news and drink a beer dreaming about what it would be like.