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90,000 Feet and Mach 3: How America’s Need for a Spy Plane Created the Blackbird
When the U-2 spy plane became vulnerable to Soviet missiles, President Eisenhower demanded a faster, higher-flying successor.
Not many 70-year-olds can set endurance or distance records. But the U-2 spy plane did both on July 31. It took off from Beale Air Force Base in California and flew a zig-zag lap around the ...
The U-2 is a single-engine, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Development began in 1954, and a prototype flew the following year. Lockheed built 49 aircraft in the initial configuration, but as ...
Even the best titanium found for the SR-71 was still rejected frequently as the exotic metal is sensitive to corrosion from ...
BOMBSHELL footage shows a mysterious “UFO-like” aircraft being tested during secret experiments at a US military-linked base.
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