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Why the U-2 was built to fly where nothing else could

During the Cold War, the United States desperately needed reliable intelligence on the Soviet Union. The U-2 spy plane was the answer—an aircraft designed to fly higher than enemy defenses could reach ...
A Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft made a rare dusk approach into RAF Fairford under the callsign BLACK01. The ...