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 ...

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Nearly half a century ago, the SR-71 Blackbird set the record for highest sustained flight and fastest manned aircraft, and as of 2024 these world records still ... U-2 Dragon Lady as its primary ...

The new supersonic plane breaks the mold with a radical new shape and digital cockpit, but it relies on ancient parts to make ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane ... that the plane had suffered a total hydraulic failure. I couldn’t deploy the flaps or the spoilers that are normally used to slow the ...

Satellites are becoming an ever-critical part of the way the United States fights and dominates its opponents.

“We still have significant uncertainties in the ... chasing down thunderheads with 10 flights of a NASA-owned modified U-2 spy plane over the Caribbean and Central America.