#u-2

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Lockheed U-2

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A Dragon Lady coming into RAF Fairford

[usafphantom2]

Absolutely wild!

📷 Neil Dunridge

@thenewarea51 via X

[opelman]

Dragon Lady by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Panned shot of USAF U-2 80-094 as it lands at Fairford following its role demonstration display at the 2025 Royal International Air Tattoo. Aircraft: USAF Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" AF 80-094. Location: RAF Fairford (FFD/EGVA), Gloucestershire.

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Press Clipping - Nature of U-2 Crash

Collection DDE-EPRES: Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Papers as President of the United StatesSeries: Miscellaneous FilesFile Unit: U-2 Incident - Press (1)

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POWERS

London (AP)-The London Daily worker today said American pilot Francis Powers--shot down over Russian territory May 1-- survived because the Soviet rocket exploded beneath the tail of his jet plane.

The powerful J57 jet engine of the lockheed U2 powers was flying thus shielded him from the full blast of the explosion, the British communist party paper said in a dispatch from Moscow.

Plane had been shot down by a rocket at all, most experts saying there would have been little left of the craft or the pilot if it had been.

Doubts also were expressed about the Soviet report that the plane was hit at over 60,000 feet altitude because Powers reportedly parachuted down without injury. U.S. experts, including the plane's designer, doubted the Russians could have salvaged the films they have been showing as Powers' work had the plane fallen from such high altitude.

WE948AED 5/13

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Dragon Lady dropping by to say hey. Oshkosh 2023

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Skunk Works: Beyond the Blackbird. The Complete Story of Lockheed's Secretive Company