To the Russians, a humiliating byproduct of the U-2 spy plane incident was the implicit ... suspect from U.S. radar evidence that Pilot Francis Powers’ jet engine simply flamed out in midpassage.

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 America’s intelligence agencies. A planned summit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident è un film del 1976 diretto da Delbert Mann con Lee Majors e Noah Beery Jr.. Durata: 120 min. Paese di produzione: USA. La storia di ...