U-2, T-38 And F-16 Flights, Plus Hurricane Fly-Throughs—All In A Day’s Work
As prep for a Kansas trip to participate in a KC-135 mid-air refueling, we thought it would be interesting to revisit other ...
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U2 spy plane finds thunderstorms generate gamma rays all the time
Using a retrofitted U2 spy plane to get a better look at these storms, scientists discovered that thunderstorms constantly ...
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U-2: World’s Highest Man, For A Few Minutes Anyway
It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat of a U-2 spy plane. So-called DV (distinguished visitor) flights are mainly reserved for ...
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Flying the U-2 spy plane
There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...
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Salute to Veterans: Intercepting messages in the Cold War
I served in the United States Air Force Security Service for five years, from 1955. I enlisted right after high school ...
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US deploys historic U-2 spy plane amid Ukraine conflict and GPS interference in Baltics
In light of this, Americans have decided to deploy their emblematic spy plane, the U-2 Dragon Lady. The aircraft was spotted over Denmark on January 5. Its operations primarily concentrate on the ...