Two U-2 pilots, including a Wisconsin native, share rare insights on the legendary spy plane's enduring legacy and relevance in today's battlespace. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 drew a record-breaking ...

Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron maintainers prepare U-2 Dragon Lady pilots for flight at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates. Filmed on March 13-15, 2019. Film Credits: U.S. Air Force Video ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRISTOL, Va. (AP) – The American pilot whose spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union is set to receive a Silver Star posthumously. A ceremony to award the third-highest combat military ...

Its pilot was killed. When Powers' plane was still in the air, another Soviet fighter pilot was ordered to intercept the U-2 in a factory-fresh Su-9 fighter carrying no weapons. The pilot was told to ...

Military airframer Lockheed Martin and the US Air Force (USAF) have completed the first flight of a U-2 Dragon Lady surveillance jet using an upgraded avionics package. Lockheed on 26 September said ...

Not many 70-year-olds can set endurance or distance records. But the U-2 spy plane did both on July 31. It took off from Beale Air Force Base in California and flew a zig-zag lap around the ...

OSHKOSH – Francis Gary Powers Jr. will give a talk at 6 p.m. July 25 at the Oshkosh Public Museum, 106 Washington Ave. The library description states that for more than three decades Powers has ...

Pentagon investigators say they are close to pinpointing the Russian burial site of a U.S. Air Force officer whose spy plane was shot down over the Barents Sea in July 1960. He was lost two months ...

Gary Powers, Jr.’s father died when he was just 12. We asked him to share some thoughts about his late father, and to comment on the subject of UFOs. ByJim Clash, Contributor. Forbes contributors ...