The U-2, its been around as long as I can remember. I still don’t know very much about it – guess that’s an opportunity for me! =================== By- Michael Auslinv – April 28, 2014 7:03 p.m. ET Congress this week may kill one of America’s most iconic, and still vital, airplanes. First introduced in the mid-1950s, the U-2 high-altitude intelligence-gathering plane has played... Read more
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U-2 Spy Plane Triggered Air-Traffic Outage
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | InterestingJust an interesting story. Another on the U-2 I will also post. ============== An air-traffic control outage last week across parts of four Western states stemmed from a software glitch sparked by the flight of a single, high-altitude U-2 Pentagon reconnaissance plane in the region, according to two people familiar with the details. Preliminary information indicates that the problem—affecting roughly 500 flights in... Read more
