Forbes writer Jim Clash being strapped in to a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. A small train regularly carries jet fuel onto the Beale AFB complex. Regular jet fuel isn’t sufficient ...
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 plane. So-called DV (distinguished visitor) flights are mainly reserved for ...
First adopted by the Air Force in 1956, the U-2 quickly gained a reputation as the world’s most sophisticated spy plane, where pilots don special, astronaut-stye suits to operate at altitudes of ...
As previously announced, it was known that a U-2 plane was missing. As a result of the inquiry ordered by the President it has been established that insofar as the authorities in Washington are ...
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 plane. Typically, aircraft deploy their landing ...
These professionals make sure all aircraft egress systems at Beale are properly functioning. "We inspect and maintain around 40 egress systems from U-2s, TU-2s, and T-38s," said Staff Sgt.
The E-2C Hawkeye is the U.S. Navy’s primary carrier-based airborne early warning and command and control aircraft. The twin turboprop Hawkeye shares its basic airframe with the C-2 Greyhound but ...
Documents seen by i suggest that RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire could become a base for the Pentagon’s state-of-the-art reconnaissance ... being used by U-2 aircraft to conduct reconnaissance ...
It featured a 65,000-ton flush deck without an island to accommodate larger aircraft ... U.S. Navy really dodged a torpedo-sized bullet. The flush flight deck carrier wasn't a step forward. Art ...
A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of "Russian ...