There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...

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 ... attention and introduced the world to high-altitude espionage.

In light of this, Americans have decided to deploy their emblematic spy plane, the U-2 Dragon Lady. The aircraft was spotted over Denmark on January 5. Its operations primarily concentrate on the ...