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 ...
80-1099 was photographed in flight for the first time in 17 years after being heavily damaged in a hydrazine fire in 2008. Aviation enthusiasts captured the aircraft in flight from Palmdale Airport, ...
The US Air Force celebrated the 70th anniversary of the famous U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane on July 31, 2025 – not with a cake but by setting new endurance records for the class of aircraft on the first ...
It was just a routine high-altitude flight for U-2 Dragon Lady pilot Lt. Col. Kevin Henry, but two hours in, an invisible ...
The U.S. Air Force conducted a record-breaking 14-hour, 6,000 nautical mile flight of a two-seat U-2 spy plane (TU-2S) across the contiguous United States. This historic journey, the longest single ...
Seventy years after the Lockheed Martin U-2 spyplane made its first flight, the distinctive high-altitude jet has set a new endurance record for the type. A two-seat TU-2S trainer variant of the U-2 ...
The U-2’s retirement is driven by a complex interplay of operational costs, concerns about its performance in contested airspace, and a strategic pivot towards unmanned and space-based systems. The ...
Two of the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) distinctive high-altitude spyplanes made a rare public appearance at a UK air show over the weekend. The Lockheed Martin U-2S Dragon Lady jets participated in the ...
Image Credit: Senior Airman Keith James - Dvidshub.net/ Public Domain/ Wiki Commons. Some own the skies. Others slip through them unseen. But every aircraft in this ...