Lockheed U-2
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English: The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed Dragon Lady, is a single-seat, single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force. It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 ft, 21,000 m plus), all-weather surveillance.
 Lockheed U-2 |
 Lockheed U-2 |
 Wreckage of Francis Gary Powers' U-2 plane on display at Central Armed Forces Museum, Moscow |
 U-2 with fictitious NASA markings to support CIA cover story for pilot Gary Powers, shot down over Soviet Union |
 Cockpit of the U-2S, Block 20 |
 Fuselage parts of a shot-down U-2 |
 Engine of a shot-down U-2 in Cuba |
 U-2 & pilot-suit. |
 Lockheed U-2 at the Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford, 2005 |
 Taxiing with high performance chase car, Osan Air Base, Korea, 2006 |
 Pilot in pressure suit |
[edit] NASA variant
 Lockheed U-2C, NASA 709 |
 Air intakes of an NASA ER-2 |
 NASA Lockheed ER-2 |
 NASA Lockheed ER-2 takes off in Costa Rica to collect huricane data |
 Lockheed ER-2 #709 takes off from NASA Dryden |
 ER-2 #809 in flight over the California desert |
