Spyplane

This book discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. It includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam), the Francis Gary Powers incident, and NASA's use of the U-2. It contains material from declassfied CIA documents. The inner workings and heavily censored history of Lockheed's dynamic U-2 spyplane are revealed in this informative design, development and operational history from 1954.

First sentence: In the autobiography of his White House years, President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote: THE U-2 RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAM HAD BEEN BORN OF NECESSITY.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

Zenith Press

Editions

1

Pages

256

ISBN

9780760309575

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