In the 1950s, the US began test-flying a new spy plane, the Lockheed U-2. A Sky HISTORY series explores how this led to UFO ...

One of the rarest sights in aviation made a dramatic appearance at RIAT 2024 – the legendary Lockheed U-2 spy plane. In this ...

Satellites – and drones – were intended to replace it. But the 65-year-old Lockheed U-2 is still at the top of its game, flying missions in an environment no other aircraft can operate in.

The Lockheed U-2 helped create Area 51 and spied on the Soviet Union from the edge of space. It's still in service 57 years later. BBC Future peers into its fascinating history. Imagine driving a ...

Initially developed by the Lockheed Skunk Works division under complete secrecy, the U-2 performed its maiden flight in 1955. Shortly thereafter, the CIA began flights over the Soviet Union to ...

The first spy plane, the Lockheed U-2, was a subsonic, long-range aircraft designed to fly high above the Soviet Union, China, and other communist bloc countries, taking detailed pictures of the ...

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin this week revealed its Skunk Works proposal for a next-generation U-2 spy plane, a tactical reconnaissance aircraft called "TR-X." As the Air Force looks to retire ...

A vintage Cold War spy plane is getting a new lease on life as Lockheed Martin's notorious yet secretive Skunk Works completes the first test flight of a Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady with an upgraded ...

Powers had just had his Lockheed U-2 Spy plane suffer structural failure from a near miss of a Soviet SAM (surface-to-air missile) and the aircraft broke apart. Because of the force of the ...

Following the loss of a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960, the Eisenhower administration sought a new aircraft from Lockheed (NYSE: LMT)—“one that would fly ...