The U-2 Dragon Lady provided the U.S. Air Force with intelligence throughout the Cold War The U-2’s ability to fly at ...

At Beale AFB near Sacramento, California, he manages a crew of folks that keep pilots safe when they fly high in the U-2 spy plane ... to those differences, and still manage the demands of ...

and manned space flight (Yuri Gagarin), to the Soviet shootdown of U-2 Dragon spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers on May 1, 1960. In the Soviet Union, May 1 was a major public holiday known as May Day ...

The U.S. Air Force is developing the SR-72, dubbed the "Son of Blackbird," a hypersonic aircraft designed to replace ... going faster than Mach 6 – while still employing stealth.

This bird was conceived in the late 1950s as a response to the U-2 spy plane. Moscow was fed up with constant U-2 overflights, so they developed one of the fastest interceptor aircraft in history ...

Although long retired, the U.S. Air Force’s SR-71 “Blackbird” still holds ... taking down these spy planes via air defenses for some time, they ultimately downed a U-2 piloted by Francis ...

Renowned historian Professor Greg Eghigian has published the first full-scale academic investigation into unidentified flying objects. He ...

Despite its relatively small size, the United States Space Force will have an increasingly important role in future security ...

The result was the superb Republic Rainbow, the most impressive piston-engine aircraft ever flown. 10. Empire of pane Long before Concorde used its famous ‘droopsnoot ... Despite this, it would still ...

Lots of broadcasters once carried regular traffic reports, and some still do. A few local TV stations ... the Air Force officer piloting a U2 spy plane that the Russians shot down in 1960.

That is the plot of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana, published in October 1958, shortly before Fidel Castro drove the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile and four years before American U2 ...