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The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed " Dragon Lady ", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), all-weather intelligence gathering. [1]
U-2, single-seat, high-altitude jet flown by the United States for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Perhaps the most famous spy plane ever built, the U-2, also known as the Dragon Lady, has been in service since 1956. A prototype flew in 1955, and the last plane in the series was built in 1989.
Nov 9, 2009 · The U‑2 Spy Incident was an international diplomatic crisis that erupted in May 1960 when the USSR shot down an American U‑2 spy plane and imprisoned its pilot.
Eisenhower and the U-2 Spy Plane Incident. Francis Gary Powers, photographed in 1966, six years after he was shot down on a U-2 surveillance flight over the Soviet Union. The incident caused international tensions and was a great embarrassment to the Eisenhower Administration. In the early 1950s, the United States was engaged in a Cold War with ...
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
Dec 11, 2020 · Nearly twice as wide as it is long, the Lockheed U-2 spy plane is one of the most distinctive aircraft in the United States Air Force – and the hardest aircraft to fly, earning itself the...
Spy vs. Spy. It was only a matter of time before advancing Russian anti-aircraft technology caught up with the spy plane. On May 1, 1960, a Soviet surface-to-air missile struck near a U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers, while on a reconnaissance mission over Russia.
Aug 14, 2013 · The U-2 was one of the Cold War’s most infamous aircraft, a plane designed to fly over unfriendly territory too high for enemy fighters or missiles, and take pictures of unparalleled detail -...
Nov 7, 2024 · On May 5, 1960, the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down on May 1 over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), referring to the flight as an “aggressive act” by the United States.
One of the Most Successful Intelligence-Gathering Aircraft The Lockheed U-2 conducted secret high-altitude reconnaissance flights during the Cold War. It was made famous when pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. 1955 United States of America CRAFT-Aircraft Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
