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The last U-2 and TR-1 aircraft were delivered to USAF in October 1989. In 1992 all TR-1s were re-designated to U-2R for uniformity across the fleet. The two-seat trainer variant of the TR-1, the TR-1B, was redesignated as the TU-2R. After upgrading with the GE F-118-101 engine, the former U-2Rs were designated the U-2S Senior Year.
1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot; The U-2 Spy Plane Incident – slideshow by Life magazine; Eisenhower's speech addressing the U-2 incident "The CIA and the U-2 Program" (1998). Archived 5 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine Central Intelligence Agency. Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow; The short film U-2 Spy Trial.
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
The plane would later achieve a speed of just over 2,000 miles per hour, nearly 50% faster than Concorde. ... the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 caused a shift ...
The U-2 spy planes have been joined by P-8A Poseidon aircraft and are flying the length of the border. The Navy P-8A and U-2 Air Force aircraft have been deployed to the border since President ...
O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.
The U.S. Air Force may be ditching its aging U-2 spy plane in favor of a mysterious drone. The Air Force Wants to Kill the U-2. A Secret Spy Drone May Be Waiting in the Shadows.
Merryl Tengesdal (born 1971) [1] is an American retired career military officer who is the first and only Black woman [2] [3] to fly the United States Air Force's U-2 spy plane used for specialized high-altitude reconnaissance missions. [2] She is one of five women and only the fourth Black person (in 2004) to be in the U-2 program. [4]