On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile a...
U-2D #56-6721, on display at Blackbird Airpark in Palmdale, California, has quite a story to tell. Our story begins nine months before Francis Gary Powers was shot down, before the U-2 became a...