A video from a U-2S spy plane take-off shows its new chase car is a Tesla Model S in place of Camaro or Corvette vehicles that used to do this task.

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And while the chase car’s job is more precautionary on takeoffs, landings are another story entirely. The U-2 is designed to live at high altitude; the closer it is to Earth, the harder it is to ...

Steve Reich, 57, a producer on the show “Jay Leno’s Garage” who lives in Los Angeles, on his 2011 Chevrolet Camaro U-2 spy plane chase car, as told to A.J. Baime. A couple years ago, for our ...

A U-2 Dragon Lady pilot with the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron drives a high-performance chase car on the runway to catch a U-2 performing a low-flight touch and go at Al Dhafra Air ...

New video from a recent U-2 landing shows a white Tesla Model S performing chase car duties. Its task is simple, yet ever important: mash the throttle as soon as the spy plane is ahead and call ...

A unique view, from inside a U-2 chase car. Pilots are not supposed to have a car entering the active runway as they are about to land, unless they are on board a legendary U-2 Dragon Lady spyplane.

Fifty years after JFK looked at U-2 spy photographs during the Cuban Missile Crisis, ... On this day of go/no-go weather, the primary chase car is a Pontiac GTO; ...

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AFNS) -- Going 100 mph down the flightline might be normal for an F-16 Fighting Falcon, but for the drivers of the U-2 chase car it's also a daily event on the ground ...

Exclusive: Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Chase Vehicle. It takes a powerful car to chase down a jet aircraft -- the Z28's 305-horsepower/5.7-liter engine provides everything this crew needs to do their job ...

PHOTOS: The cars that chase down the U-2 spy plane In the 1950s and ‘60s, U-2s were slow, so the Air Force could use old work trucks. But the military used El Caminos in the 1970s and 1980s.