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Top Gear's James May takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 - the worlds highest-flying airplane - cruising at 70,000ft.
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The Lockheed U-2 is a single-engine, very high-altitude surveillance aircraft flown by the United States Air Force. It provides day and night, very high-altitude (70,000 feet/21,000 meters), all-weather surveillance. The aircraft is also used for electronic sensor research and development, satellite calibration, and satellite data validation.
It was built in 1955.
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