The U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was captured in 1960 by the Soviets near Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains after the U-2 ...

It was May 1, 1960, and Francis Gary Powers found himself on the ground in a foreign land, surrounded by its inhabitants.

Although the US eventually won the Cold War, it suffered humiliating defeats in the process. Among them was China's shootdown ...

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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 ... pilot Gary Powers, while taking secret photos at more than 70,000 ...

The name of the American civilian pilot is Francis Gary Powers ... plane which is reported to have been shot down in the Soviet Union. As previously announced, it was known that a U-2 plane ...

pursuit. The U-2, of course, is the U.S. spy plane that’s been in operation since the late 1950s. In 1960, pilot Gary Powers, while taking secret photos at more than 70,000 feet above the former ...

The U-2's old-style cameras still outperform other surveillance gear by delivering crisp images from above 70,000 feet The U-2 spy plane first became operational in 1956. Today the U.S. Air Force ...

In their consideration of Francis Powers’ U-2 trial in Moscow, few U.S. newspaper columnists bothered to meditate about the performance—and its meaning —of the defendant himself. Whatever ...

Dino Brugioni probably knows more about analyzing spy ... the plane collapsed and we lost our first pilot. After that, when a U-2 was taking off, the whole area was cleared. NOVA: After Powers ...

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