The U-2 Dragon Lady is one of the most consequential planes ever built. Unfortunately, it’s also notoriously difficult to fly ...

Footage of a United States U-2 spy plane that captured imagery of the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the ...

But the first military function of aircraft in that war was gathering intelligence ... Best known is the subsonic U2, which precipitated a major cold-war crisis when the Soviet Union shot down ...

The US is flying U-2 "Dragon Lady" spy planes on patrol missions around the southern border. The top Air Force officer confirmed the involvement of the aircraft last Friday. The U-2 planes join ...

The base was established in 1955, initially to support the development of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane, and has since hosted testing of several classified aircraft. The name "Area 51" comes from its ...

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Andy Pasztor is a former aerospace reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

On 1 May 1960, just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR. The USA claimed the U2 ...