Summary and Key Points: The U-2 spy plane's vulnerability after the 1960 ... jet-powered U-2—capable of flying as high as 70,000 feet—is still used by the U.S. Air Force.

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

That said, we could still make out landmarks like Lake Tahoe, Beale AFB, Yosemite and the Golden Gate Bridge. Forbes writer Jim Clash at the edge of space in a U-2 spy plane, August 21 ...

Cory is one of the most senior pilots at Beale Air Force Base, California, having logged 3,666 hours during his three decades of flying the U-2 spy plane. As such, he was one of the senior Beale ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese warplanes tailed a U.S. military aircraft through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, China’s ...

Japan's defense minister said the use of flares was a legitimate response to airspace violation and "we plan to use it ...

Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday.

TOKYO — Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace on Monday. Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters that ...

Japanese military planes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that trespassed and entered Japan’s airspace ...

Japan says its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace TOKYO -- Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance ...