As prep for a Kansas trip to participate in a KC-135 mid-air refueling, we thought it would be interesting to revisit other ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...

Secret History: U-2 Spy Planes on Aircraft Carriers On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for ...

It’s extremely rare for a civilian - even a journalist - to score an edge-of-space ride in the backseat of a U-2 spy plane. So-called DV (distinguished visitor) flights are mainly reserved for ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

Washington sources said Beijing might even move to charge the crew with espionage and put them on trial - a grim echo of the 1960 incident when an American U2 spy plane was shot down over Russia ...

Tactical reconnaissance follows suit from its name. Tactical weapons, like cruise missiles or torpedoes, are primarily used ...

The SR-71 Blackbird was a groundbreaking aircraft that demonstrated unmatched speed that outran missiles through sheer power.

There are a few uncomfortable details that come to light in this documentary exploring the many surveillance techniques being used on board modern spy planes. Did you know that, as they trawl the ...

Following on the heels of several U-2 spy plane shootdowns, Washington was no longer willing to authorize overflights of Soviet territory which the A-12 had been designed to perform. Meanwhile ...

The music video fuses artistic visuals with actual footage from Pima County Sheriff’s “Survey 1” spy plane, which circled the band's songwriter's residence under the pretext of a welfare check.