U-2 program history The U‑2's origins trace back to the early years of the Cold War, when U.S. intelligence agencies urgently sought a way to look deep into Soviet territory without setting off a war.

Forbes writer Jim Clash en route to 70,000 feet in a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat ...

For decades, the Lockheed U-2 has carried out some of America’s most sensitive intelligence missions, flying at extreme ...

For the first time, the public is getting an aerial view of the mysterious Chinese balloon that transited North American airspace during the first week of February. The US Department of Defense (DoD) ...

In the heavily censored transcript of the secret Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the U-2 incident and summit ...

A retired U-2 pilot will discuss his experiences during the Cold War at the Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks, 2305 E. Kearney St. in Springfield. Retired Air Force Col. Glenn Whicker is scheduled ...

Flying from Beale AFB, a Lockheed U-2 aircraft, using the specially chosen callsign DRAGON 70, was heard communicating with ATC about a plan to set an endurance and altitude record for the ‘category ...

A few years ago, I visited Beale AFB near Sacramento, California, for a series of Forbes stories about operations there (links below). The military base is home to the venerable U-2 and a fleet of ...

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(The Hill) – The Pentagon on Wednesday released a photo of a U-2 spy plane that was hovering above the Chinese spy balloon earlier this month. The photo shows an Air Force pilot inside what appears to ...