Footage of a United States U-2 spy plane that captured imagery of the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the continental United States which was later shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.

One of the rarest sights in aviation made a dramatic appearance at RIAT 2024 – the legendary Lockheed U-2 spy plane. In this video, I capture its precise, almost surreal landing, complete with ...

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 ...

The Dodge Charger was used to assist Lockheed U-2 spy planes during takeoff and landing. It includes unique military upgrades like a performance exhaust and heavy-duty suspension. Powering the ...

But while the U-2 ... a new spy drone — the RQ-4A. Its top speed is 357 miles per hour and it has a wingspan of 130.9 feet. Just like the U-2, it seems like it doesn't have the best landing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Military pilots have reported that these planes are particularly difficult to fly. The Air Force developed the U2 in the late '50s ... Soviet Union shot down the spy plane and captured its pilot ...

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 ...

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 ...

It makes sense that a spy plane works well as a science plane ... (Tony Landis/NASA) To help with the landing, a fellow U-2 or ER-2 pilot in a chase car pursues the jet down the runway, guiding ...

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 ...