One of the rarest sights in aviation made a dramatic appearance at RIAT 2024 – the legendary Lockheed U-2 spy plane. In this ...

We recently heard from two U-2 spy plane pilots about what it’s like to operate this aircraft and how the Air Force uses it today. Here’s what we learned. The landing literally involves a ...

Having that gear on makes landing the plane even more challenging ... [Related: Everything you could ever want to know about flying the U-2 spy plane] The point of the aircraft is to gather ...

A U-2 spy plane that crashed in northern California ... Johnson's design also dispensed with conventional landing gear and a pressurized cabin. The U-2 was introduced into military service in ...

Twenty-nine locals, including children, provided illustrations. One in particular depicts the U-2 weather reconnaissance plane that was forced to glide into the Cortez Municipal Airport on Aug. 4 ...

U-2 spy plane about to land at Beale AFB ... Because he can’t see his landing gear. At the guidance of the chase car, the U-2 pilot effectively stalls his aircraft, then carefully drops the ...

The U-2 spy plane was first built in the mid-1950s ... pilot in a car that would follow the U-2 down the runway as it’s landing, going 100 or 120 mph or so, and radio the pilot to let him ...

The U-2 spy plane, one of America’s most iconic jet ... The U-2’s wings are so broad that each requires separate landing gear that detaches on takeoff. Undated photograph taken at RAF Fairford ...

you have to cut a few corners in the takeoff and landing department. Such is the case with the U2 spy plane, a single-engine jet with an absolutely enormous 104-foot wingspan that gives it ...

It was the Cold-War era spy plane that ... Jack Chang’s U-2 was hit by a missile over Inner Mongolia in 1965. He, too, suffered dozens of shrapnel injuries and bailed out, landing on a snowy ...