The Time China Shot Down 5 USAF U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Planes
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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Eve Hewson in Early Talks for Untitled Steven Spielberg Event Film
The 2015 film, starring Tom Hanks, follows an American lawyer who is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court ... captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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Space Force Vs Air Force Comparison
Despite its relatively small size, the United States Space Force will have an increasingly important role in future security ...
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The impending death of the SigAlert — and why it’s our fault
He was that Francis Gary Powers, the Air Force officer piloting a U2 spy plane that the Russians shot down in 1960. A prisoner exchange returned Powers to the West, and in time he made his way to ...
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Lockheed Martin SR-72 Son of Blackbird or Darkstar: What We Know Right Now
This spy plane is notably the fastest plane to ... they ultimately downed a U-2 piloted by Francis Powers in 1960. The loss of this U-2 really spearheaded the effort to design an airframe faster ...
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Patt Morrison: The death of the SigAlert — and why it's our fault
He was that Francis Gary Powers, the Air Force officer piloting a U2 spy plane that the Russians shot down in 1960. A prisoner exchange returned Powers to the West, and in time he made his way to ...
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Pope Francis Plane Lands At Start Of Luxembourg-Belgium Trip
Pope Francis landed in Luxembourg at 10:00 am (0800 ... greeting the journalists traveling with him aboard the papal plane, telling them "I don't feel able." str-ub/ec/yad ...
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Pope Cancels Meetings, Citing Flu and With More Travel Looming
Francis, 87, is scheduled to visit Belgium and Luxembourg soon, trips that come within weeks of his returning from a grueling Asia-Pacific tour. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome Pope Francis ...