Tag: U-2
"Area 51 is an open training range for the US Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces," USAF spokeswoman. It started as a bit of a joke, but now the
US Air Force (USAF) has told people not to go near...
The event will see a group of alien hunters meeting at 3 a.m. on Sep. 20, 2019 near the top-secret U.S. Air Force Base to coordinate a plan of attack to reveal the truth behind Area 51 curtain. According to Fox News, more than 250,000 people have signed up to attend a Facebook...
Losing a U-2 over the Soviet Union was the nightmare scenario, and Francis Gary Powers was not dreaming. It was
around 6:20 on Sunday May 1, 1960 when a member of the crew pulled the ladder
away and slammed the canopy shut. The pilot then locked it from the inside. As Francis
Gary Powers taxied on...
“Especially in light of the U-2 that was shot down over Cuba in 1962, I understood my father's frustration. All of the sudden, Washington officials were faced with the political dilemma of having to admit that the Soviets were more advanced than they realized,” Francis Gary Powers Jr. One of the most...
Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesdal has flown at the edge of space and witnessed a shooting star from the inside of a cockpit. She achieved what no African American woman ever had before. As a child she imagined flying amongst the stars, thousands of miles above the earth’s surface, and today Lt. Col. Merryl...
Two Air Defense Command Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptors were scrambled to counter the MiG-19s and guide the U-2 home. On each Delta Dagger were nuclear-tipped GAR-11 Nuclear Falcon missiles... If there was any one factor during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 that could have escalated the situation out of the...
“I learned later that the Soviets launched at least five fighters to intercept my flight. Two planes took off initially. The lead plane aborted takeoff, ran off the runway, and exploded. The wingman went through lead’s flames and then bailed out. Two more airplanes scrambled and were refueled in the air. Those airplanes got lost or collided. The pilots...
"In a matter of seconds, all hell broke out. Without any warning the A-12 pitched up and went into a flat inverted spin," Ken Collins, A-12 test pilot In 1959, Lockheed began work on the design of a long-range, high-altitude plane, then known as the A-11. It was a Cold War project. Heading the project team was Clarence "Kelly" Johnson,...
From 1955 many of the UFO sightings reported to Project Blue Book were U-2 spy planes conducting high altitude testing In the mid-1950s USAF and CIA used UFO sightings to cover very high altitude flights of their then secret U-2 spy planes. Born in March 1952 on the initiative of General Cabell, the so called Project Blue Book was the U.S....
"From the LSO perspective, the problem was that the U-2 was a glider with an engine. It did not want to stop flying," Lonny 'Eagle' McClung, former U.S. Navy LSO In the early 1950s, because of the poor quality of intelligence estimates on Soviet strategic capabilities, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Lockheed Corporation jointly developed a high-altitude single-engine reconnaissance aircraft called...
