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 ...

“I guess I was lucky,” he said. After his stint in Vietnam, Stan was sent off to be trained to fly the U-2 spy plane. “The U-2 is the Air Force’s most difficult plane to land,” Stan said.

In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Benjamin Snyder’s Spy Plane reveals what ...

The last EP-3E Aries II of VQ-1 "World Watchers" has completed its final operational mission and returned home. On Oct. 29, ...

RUSSIA taunted Britain as one of Vladimir Putin's spy ships was seen lurking off the UK coast near pipelines ... The Russian reconnaissance plane had been detected in the UK's area of interest ...

On May 1st, 1960 the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 spy plane over the USSR with its S ... a defensive fighter that could intercept and take down any bombers. In 1953 the Air Force began development ...

The tense stand-off developed as 24 crew members from the ... on trial - a grim echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot, Gary Powers ...

Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns ... SR-71 variant of the A-12 that was deemed superior in a “fly off” in November 1967. Unwilling to fund both highly similar ...

Let's take a deeper look at this final proposal ... The high-altitude flights of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union concerned Soviet leadership and made the need for new high-altitude, ...

Nicholas Priest) The B-1 owns its existence indirectly to the shooting down over the Soviet Union of the U-2 spy plane piloted by ... that threatened to take the nuclear strike role away from ...