Fox-body Ford Mustangs and a whole crop of high-performers from GM have served the US Air Force over the years, helping land the legendary U-2 spy ... training wheels for spy planes – is a ...

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 ...

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 ... in the wings to evenly distribute it so as not to tilt the plane to ...

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 ...

Washington sources said Beijing might even move to charge the crew with espionage and put them on trial - a grim echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane ... of a wing and part ...

Forbes writer Jim Clash takes off off from Beale AFB in the back of a U-2 spy plane, August 21 ... The eye-wall winds were intense - I thought the wings were going to fall off of the fuselage.

Modern airplanes are inspired by birds but Princeton researchers find one aspect, we have not used so far and it could help ...

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 ...

The Air Force's two-seat TU-2S trainer aircraft are not only super rare, but are also critical in training pilots to fly the ...

Today, the YF-12A remains the closest the United States has ever come to producing an armed, Mach 3-capable aircraft. On May 1st, 1960 the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 spy plane over the USSR with ...

He was sitting for debriefing when mechanics burst in the room to show him two metal fragments from a missile’s nose cone they had found buried under his low left wing—just shy of his jet’s ...

The exact airfoil shape of a wing has a massive effect on the performance and efficiency of an aircraft and will be selected based on the intended flight envelope. If you’re moving beyond foam ...