Interesting to follow the activity into and out of Edwards AFB.
flightaware.com/live/airport/KEDW
Like this U-2 flying at FL600+, above class A airspace.
And, as dicussed before, a few F-18 flights, like this one doing 535knots over the ground, 800nm in and hour and a half. (not really that amazing, but still interesting to follow)
Uh, James. The linky is the same one as the U-2.
The U-2 is a VERY good climber. FL600 in 28 minutes! (2140 fpm avg.)
Very interesting…
Fixed. 
I was flying near Sacramento the other day when ATC said to me, U2 departing now 2 o’clock and 5 miles, climbing across your flight path from 0 to FL600. You won’t even see him, but thought I’d let you know anyway.
…Like a homesick angel!
Amazing airplane. A guy i know on another forum flies them, he has good stories.
A friend of mine flew them as well and the stories are terrific. He used to call out to a tower below him that he was coming down to FL6000 and they’d tell him to quit joking around. Then he’d pop onto their radar.
[ N809NA ]](Lockheed ER-2S - NASA | Aviation Photo #0955788 | Airliners.net) photo at Edwards
[ ER-2 ]](NASA Dryden ER-2 Photo Collection) NASA Dryden Photo collection.
[ FAA ]](http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=809NA) registry for N809NA/80-1097