High Altitude Spies

The CIA started high altitude reconnaissance of the Soviet Union with Lockheed's U-2 Spyplane that remains in USAF use in 2014. But in the early 1960s from Gary Powers onwards the U-2 suffered loses through shoot-downs and crashes, this ebook tells the u-2 Spyplane story as well as the EE Canberra PR variants and its Martin RB-57 version with its 122ft wingspan claimed to operate at 80,000ft? The Lockheed SR.71 Blackbird and the weather reconnaissance flights used as cover for the spy flights over China and Cuba before and after the missile crisis and more U-2 losses. And RAF all-black Canberra flights from RAF Wyton over the Soviet Union, that took place before the Sculthrope Special Flight was activated. Ilustrated