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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.
Another Soviet aircraft, a newly manufactured Su-9 on a transit flight, also attempted to intercept Powers' U-2. The unarmed Su-9 was directed to ram the U-2 but missed because of the large differences in speed. [a] As Powers flew near Kosulino in the Ural Region, three S-75 Dvinas were launched at his U-2, with the first one hitting the aircraft.
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 ...
Wreckage of the U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers in an exhibition at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow. On 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 espionage mission from northern Pakistan over the Soviet Union. While flying over the Urals, the aircraft came within range of Soviet surface-to-air missiles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The primary air traffic control system around Los Angeles shut down last week because data from the a U-2 spy plane's flight plan confused software that helps track and route ...
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.
On 11 February 1960, the CIA approved a US$96 million (~$758 million in 2023) contract for Skunk Works to build a dozen A-12 spy planes. Three months later, the May 1960 downing of Francis Gary Powers's U-2 underscored the need for less vulnerable reconnaissance aircraft. [14] The A-12 first flew at Groom Lake , Nevada, on 25 April 1962.