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The Lockheed U-2 leaves the ground with a glider-like leap
A Lockheed U-2 spy plane accelerates down the runway and lifts off in just seconds, its long glider-like wings generating lift almost immediately. As the aircraft climbs away, the unmistakable howl of ...
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How many U-2 spy planes were built?
The Lockheed U-2 'Dragon Lady' spy plane is famously one of the oldest aircraft types in service with theUnited States Air Force. The aircraft is a relic of the Cold War and first entered service in ...
How do you move an aircraft that no longer flies? This time-lapse video of the Lockheed U-2C being lowered gives you a sense of the work involved with lowering and moving artifacts of this scale. The ...
Hear from the first Black woman to pilot the U-2 about how she overcame obstacles to make history, May 3 at 8 pm ET. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/40FsAZJ The path towards achieving your goal is not ...
The U-2 is a single-engine, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Development began in 1954, and a prototype flew the following year. Lockheed built 49 aircraft in the initial configuration, but as ...
As the Office of the Secretary of Defense weighs a premature retirement of the U-2, manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s argument to save the program is that “there is no other high-altitude platform that ...
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