It’s like riding a bicycle with a 25-foot two-by-four strapped to the handlebars. It’s difficult to see out of the cockpit, so each time you land another U-2 pilot has to speed down the runway in a ...

USAF pilot Jethro (front) and Forbes writer Jim Clash breathing 100% oxygen before boarding a U-2 ... [+] for their edge-of-space flight, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. Blood boils at around 60,000 ...

Jeffrey Anderson, 99th Reconnaissance Squadron pilot, qualified to fly the U-2 Dragon Lady. The U-2 Dragon Lady is known as the hardest aircraft to fly in the world, it has been a host to less ...

When US Air Force pilot Lt. Col. "Jethro" first learned about the U-2, he was determined to get into the highly selective training program. Piloting the vaunted "Dragon Lady" meant flying "single ...

U-2 pilot Cory greets Forbes writer Jim Clash following Clash’s edge-of-space flight, Beale AFB, August 21, 2024. Forbes writer Jim Clash being strapped in to a U-2 spy plane, Beale AFB ...

Working with liquid oxygen is vital for U-2 pilots and the mission ... is called Aviator's Breathing Oxygen (ABO), it's a pilot's main source of air at altitudes exceeding 10,000 feet.

In August 1960, a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage. On Aug. 19, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. This Cold War saga had all the elements of a ...

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

A Marine investigation blamed the pilot of an advanced fighter jet for ejecting from the aircraft when he didn’t need to, ...

This was a U.S. Government-owned and operated aircraft that was being flown by a government pilot who safely ejected. The ...

The first HDR by Barco-equipped theater outside the U.S. is set to open at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, with ...