An curved arrow pointing right. The U-2 Dragon Lady is a single engine spy plane capable of flying up to 475 MPH at an altitude of 70,000 feet. This is what it takes to service the plane every 7 ...

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 on autopilot, and it felt as if we were just floating. The line ...

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 ...

When a plane goes down, an ejection seat keeps pilots ... Knowing that a life is on the line if something isn't done right puts a lot of pressure on airmen working on egress systems.

Washington sources said Beijing might even move to charge the crew with espionage and put them on trial - a grim echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane was shot down over Russia ...

Fox-body Ford Mustangs and a whole crop of high-performers from GM have served the US Air Force over the years, helping land the legendary U-2 spy plane. Typically, aircraft deploy their landing ...

Forbes writer Jim Clash takes off off from Beale AFB in the back of a U-2 spy plane, August 21, 2024. In anticipation of an upcoming trip to Wichita, Kansas, to participate in a mid-air refueling ...

First adopted by the Air Force in 1956, the U-2 quickly gained a reputation as the world’s most sophisticated spy plane, where pilots don special, astronaut-stye suits to operate at altitudes of ...

Those four contrails went up about 90-95,000 feet and all turned over, bunched up in a line, headed for my tail ... Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns, Washington was ...

On May 1st, 1960 the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 spy plane over the USSR with its S ... NASA leased the other two for research purposes. The A-12 line did leave behind a proud working lineage ...

An American U2 spy plane discovered Soviet nuclear missiles ... The ‘Moscow-Washington Hot Line’ was created in 1963 so the superpowers could talk more easily. The USA, USSR and Britain ...