Summary and Key Points: The U-2 spy plane's vulnerability after the 1960 incident led the CIA to consider aircraft carrier operations. -By 1963, after initial resistance, a secret project named ...

In an infamous incident in 1960, pilot Gary Powers ... Forbes writer Jim Clash boarding a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. Clad in our space suits and after breathing 100 percent ...

Official documents record a dialogue between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. after a U.S. spy plane goes down in ... As previously announced, it was known that a U-2 plane was missing.

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 ...

To the Russians, a humiliating byproduct of the U-2 spy plane incident was the implicit suggestion that foreign aircraft flying high enough could cruise over Soviet territory almost at will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns ... taking her crew into captivity. Worrying the incident, combined with a failed commando raid on the South Korean presidential palace ...

The last EP-3E Aries II of VQ-1 "World Watchers" has completed its final operational mission and returned home. On Oct. 29, ...

More NIKITA SHCHYUKIN/AFP via Getty Images This latest incident adds to the growing list of Russian activities near sensitive European sites amid reports that Russian spy planes are intercepted by ...