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How U-2 Spy Planes Flew from U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers
Secret History: U-2 Spy Planes on Aircraft Carriers On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for ...
The YF-12 Could Fly at Mach 3 and Blast Russian Bombers from the Sky. Why Did It Never See Action?
In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...
The National Interest21d
A-12 Oxcart: CIA's Mach 3 Spy Plane That Dodged Missiles Over Vietnam
The CIA’s twelve ultra-fast A-12 jets were doomed to a brief operational career after the first flight in 1962. Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns, Washington was no ...
Opinion
Marshall Independent5dOpinion
Flying the U-2 spy plane
There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...
Forbes2mon
U-2: World’s Highest Man, For A Few Minutes Anyway
It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat of a U-2 spy plane. So-called DV (distinguished visitor) flights are mainly reserved for ...
Autoblog9y
The U-2 spy plane needs high-performance cars to help land
Fox-body Ford Mustangs and a whole crop of high-performers from GM have served the US Air Force over the years, helping land the legendary U-2 spy plane. Typically, aircraft deploy their landing ...
Business Insider7y
The U-2 spy plane lands with a "controlled crash" every time
The U-2 spy plane is an engineering marvel, but it can't land on its own. This is the complicated process pilots have to go through to bring the plane down safely. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...
Task & Purpose4y
The Air Force plans on retiring the vaunted U-2 spy plane starting in 2025
After nearly 70 years of service, the U.S. Air Force plans to begin divesting its fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes starting in fiscal year 2025, budget documents show By Jared Keller Posted on ...
Business Insider8y
Engineers disassemble a U-2 spy plane
An curved arrow pointing right. The U-2 Dragon Lady is a single engine spy plane capable of flying up to 475 MPH at an altitude of 70,000 feet. This is what it takes to service the plane every 7 ...
PBS4y
Master of the Surveillance Image
One of the founding officers of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation ... Spying from space NOVA: If we've got these spy planes like the U-2 back in the '60s taking great photographs ...
Forbes9d
U-2, T-38 And F-16 Flights, Plus Hurricane Fly-Throughs—All In A Day’s Work
Forbes writer Jim Clash takes off off from Beale AFB in the back of a U-2 spy plane, August 21, 2024. In anticipation of an upcoming trip to Wichita, Kansas, to participate in a mid-air refueling ...