The Navy made significant modifications to the ... Whale Tail,” the CIA’s ambitious project to reformat a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane for aircraft carrier use. The second article will be ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The U-2 Dragon Lady is a single engine spy plane capable of flying up to 475 MPH at an altitude of 70,000 feet. This is what it takes to service the plane every 7 ...

The U-2 spy plane is an engineering marvel, but it can't land on its own. This is the complicated process pilots have to go through to bring the plane down safely. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...

Throughout the heady days of the Cold War, the U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane was responsible for deep ... and I felt at the time that landing could be made without a hook. We required very little ...

It's a dangerous job with lots of physical challenges. Pilots flying U2 spy planes out of South Korea have to take many precautions and eat food similar to astronauts. The planes, which fly ...

Official documents record a dialogue between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. after a U.S. spy plane goes down in ... As previously announced, it was known that a U-2 plane was missing.