Secret History: U-2 Spy Planes on Aircraft Carriers On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for ...
After nearly 70 years of service, the U.S. Air Force plans to begin divesting its fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes starting in fiscal year 2025, budget documents show By Jared Keller Posted on ...
Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the USA U-2 spy plane which crashed in Russia, May 1960, appearing before a US Senate Armed Forces Committee in Washington DC, USA, holding a model of a U-2 plane.
The U-2 spy plane is an engineering marvel, but it can't land on its own. This is the complicated process pilots have to go through to bring the plane down safely. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...