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 ...

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.

[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 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'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 U-2, nicknamed the “Dragon Lady” after a CIA program, is the world’s best-known spy plane ... the plane has continued to receive new optical and thermal cameras, radar systems, air ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.