Discover the story of the Lockheed U-2's first flight on August 1, 1955, and how the legendary Dragon Lady became a ...

Hear from the first Black woman to pilot the U-2 about how she overcame obstacles to make history, May 3 at 8 pm ET. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/40FsAZJ The path towards achieving your goal is not ...

A Lockheed U-2 "Dragon Lady" aircraft will be displayed at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, celebrating its 70th anniversary. The U-2, known for high-altitude surveillance missions, requires a ...

As the Office of the Secretary of Defense weighs a premature retirement of the U-2, manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s argument to save the program is that “there is no other high-altitude platform that ...

Britain's BAE Systems and U.S. arms giant Lockheed Martin announced a tie-up between their secretive research units to ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (EAA) - As provided to Action 2 News: EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 will feature one of the most popular intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, as the United States ...

In the late 1950s, the Lockheed U-2 entered service as the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft of its time. Designed for extreme altitudes, equipped with state-of-the-art cameras, and initially ...

How do you move an aircraft that no longer flies? This time-lapse video of the Lockheed U-2C being lowered gives you a sense of the work involved with lowering and moving artifacts of this scale. The ...

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) — On the evening of July 31, a TU-2S Dragon Lady from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing took off from Beale Air Force Base to begin a flight unlike any the U-2 airframe ...

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $9.8 billion multiyear contract to produce nearly 2,000 of the most advanced variant ...