The U-2 spy plane carries such an effective camera that pilots believe it can read a newspaper’s headlines from the air. Even ...

The U-2 spy plane has been operating all over the world ... The U-2 is probably best known for what pilots call "the optical bar camera," Maj. Travis "Lefty" Patterson, a U-2 pilot, said at ...

the military has also been using a spy plane called the U-2 to collect information about what’s below using instruments like radar, antennas, and even a film camera. Challenging to fly and ...

The US Air Force (USAF) fleet of Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady spyplanes recently have completed flight testing and installation of the Collins Aerospace Senior Year Electro-Optical ...

The U-2 Dragon Lady ... Photographing from the airplane with the Optical Bar Camera was very much an analog process, one that required the plane to land and its film to be developed in order ...

A U-2 spy plane that crashed in northern California ... The first U-2s carried large-format cameras, but the sensors on board have grown much more sophisticated over the years, as have the controls.

The U-2's old-style cameras still outperform other surveillance gear by delivering crisp images from above 70,000 feet The U-2 spy plane first became operational in 1956. Today the U.S. Air Force ...

The camera is so huge that it requires a jack ... The unit itself relies on a lens that was purportedly taken from a Lockheed U-2 spy plane, and if you're unfamiliar, that flavor of surveillance ...

[Related: Everything you could ever want to know about flying the U-2 spy plane] The point of the aircraft ... with what’s called the Optical Bar Camera, and stopped doing so only in the summer ...

The U-2 spy plane, one of America’s most iconic jet ... had to be traded in for simply overflying the country with large cameras. In 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear weapon ...

A U-2 spy plane that crashed in northern California ... The first U-2s carried large-format cameras, but the sensors on board have grown much more sophisticated over the years, as have the controls.