Few aircraft of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis are as iconic as the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane. It was the U-2 that took the photographs of the missiles in Cuba, which led to the ...

Flying from Beale AFB, a Lockheed U-2 aircraft, using the specially chosen callsign DRAGON 70, was heard communicating with ATC about a plan to set an endurance and altitude record for the ‘category ...

This post was updated Oct. 1 at 8:39 p.m. With “Dragon Lady,” Sara Porkalob has created a fiery theatrical supernova. The one-woman show is the first of three plays in “The Dragon Cycle,” a series ...

With a long and distinguished career flying the Dragon Lady as well as the T-38, Huggy continues to serve as a GS-13 civilian U‑2 instructor pilot, mentoring the next generation of U‑2 aviators and ...

The historic flight, which was 11 years in the making, saw the TU-2 flying longer than 14 hours and traveling over 6,000 NM across all 48 contiguous states of the U.S. On Aug. 1, 2025, we reported ...

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The flight over the 48 contiguous states came just days after the U-2 Dragon Lady was the star of the show at the 2025 Royal International Air Tattoo. Last week, a Lockheed TU-2S Dragon Lady took part ...

The U-2 Dragon Lady's history has been turbulent. This spy plane was so secret, it was commissioned not by the Air Force, but by the CIA. See how this plane has become one of the most reliable aerial ...