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The Myasishchev M-55 (NATO reporting name: Mystic-B) is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft [3] developed by OKB Myasishchev in the Soviet Union, similar in mission to the Lockheed U-2, but with a twin-boom fuselage and tail surface design.
Designated RB-57F, the design was almost an entirely new aircraft with a three-spar wing structure of 122 feet span, powerful new Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-11 main engines and two detachable underwing J60-P-9s for boost thrust at high altitude. The aircraft carried high-altitude cameras which were able to take oblique shots at 45 degrees up to 60 ...
M-17 "Mystic-A": high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, 1970 M-18 : supersonic bomber design, 1972; cancelled in favor of the Tupolev Tu-160 M-19 : hypersonic air and space plane; various engine and fuel types, 1974
Myasishchev M-55, a Soviet reconnaissance aircraft; M55 self propelled howitzer, an American self-propelled artillery piece; M55 machine gun trailer mount, an American quadruple .50 caliber machine gun system based on the M45 Quadmount; Zastava M55, a Yugoslav/Serbian anti-aircraft gun; Tikka M55, a Finnish rifle
A USAF SR-71 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence.
In November 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a secret program under the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency to build and fly a special-purpose high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft with the code name AQUATONE. Lockheed was chosen to build the reconnaissance plane and in August 1955 the first Lockheed U-2 was test-flown ...
Military aircraft. MDR-5 - 1938 reconnaissance aircraft; R-1 - 1952 flying boat; Be-1 - 1964 experimental ground effect aircraft; Be-4 - 1940 reconnaissance flying boat; Be-6 - 1949 maritime patrol flying boat; VVA-14 - 1972 ground effect aircraft; Civilian aircraft. Be-8 - 1947 passenger and liaison floatplane; Be-30 - 1967 regional airliner ...
Although this may perhaps seem obvious today with modern reconnaissance tasks performed by fast, high flying aircraft, at the time it was radical thinking. [citation needed] This PRU Blue Spitfire PR Mk XI (PL965) was a long range, high-altitude reconnaissance variant capable of flying from airfields in England and photographing targets in Berlin.