Spyplane: The U-2 History DeclassifiedBook discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. Includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam) and NASA's use of the U-2. |
Contents
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Contents | v |
Foreword | vi |
Preface | vii |
too many reports have been destroyed and much material | viii |
Glossary | ix |
Mya | x |
CHAPTER 1 | 1 |
CHAPTER 7 | 101 |
CHAPTER 8 | 117 |
CHAPTER 9 | 131 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHAPTER 10 | 149 |
CHAPTER 11 | 169 |
CHAPTER 2 | 5 |
CHAPTER 3 | 21 |
3C EVT U rm | 23 |
CHAPTER 3 | 27 |
canwhile Land and his Project | 43 |
CHAPTER 4 | 47 |
Developing | 47 |
Another Air Force office tell | 61 |
CHAPTER 5 | 67 |
CHAPTER 6 | 83 |
CHAPTER 12 | 181 |
CHAPTER 13 | 197 |
CHAPTER 14 | 211 |
33804 BY ST | 212 |
CHAPTER 15 | 231 |
Notes | 235 |
Appendixes | 265 |
Index | 277 |
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Adana aerial Agency air defense Air Force's airfield Allen Dulles approved Aquatone August Baker balloons base began Bissell bomber camera Canberra chap China CIA U-2s CIA's cockpit Codeword Colonel Command Committee crashed Cuba deleted deployed Deputy Detachment G detected Development Director Donovan early Edwards AFB ELINT engine feet fighters film flew flown flying Francis Gary Powers fuel Goodpaster high-altitude reconnaissance intercept interview July June Kelly Johnson Khrushchev Killian Land later Lockheed Lockheed U-2 Memorandum Middle East miles NASA North Vietnam November nuclear October Office OSA History OSA records overfly overhead reconnaissance panel photographs President Eisenhower Project Three proposed radar reconnaissance aircraft Reconnaissance Squadron refueling Richard Bissell SA-2 missile satellite Senior September shot Soviet radars Soviet Union spyplane targets U-2 aircraft U-2 flights U-2 missions U-2 operations U-2 overflights U-2 pilots U-2 program U-2 project U.S. Air Force United USAF variants Washington Welzenbach