[DOC] [TLE] Francis Gary Powers - Wikipedia [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] 1960 U-2 incident - Wikipedia [PAR] The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the 
presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, 
when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The 
aircraft, flown by Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, ... Soviet 
Union because he felt that if one of these pilots were to be shot down... [DOC] [TLE] Francis Gary Powers - Wikipedia [PAR] Francis Gary Powers. ... Francis Gary Powers (17 August 1929  1 August 1977)  often referred to as simply Gary Powers  was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. [DOC] [TLE] U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960 ... [PAR] U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960. On May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace. ... Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev refused the proposal, continuing the established Soviet policy of rejecting international inspections in any form. [DOC] [TLE] American U-2 spy plane shot down - May 01, 1960 - HISTORY.com [PAR] An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the ... 
On May 1, 1960, a U-2 flight piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared while 
.... The button he pushed was a symbolic one in Washington D.C.; someone else. [DOC] [TLE] U-2 Spy Incident - Cold War - HISTORY.com [PAR] Powers chose not to use the needle when he was shot down over the Soviet ... 
However, by the spring of 1960, the USSR had developed a new Zenith ... On 
May 1, that weapon locked onto a U-2 flown by 30-year-old CIA pilot Francis Gary 
... type of top-secret mission he specialized in: flying a U-2 spy plane over the 
USSR... [DOC] [TLE] Francis Gary Powers: One Man, Two Countries and ... - Military.com [PAR] In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a lone American flying at 80,000 feet ... of 
the press to support the cover story that Francis Gary Powers and other pilots 
were ... He "left" the Air Force to work in the deepening shadows of the ultra-
secret... [DOC] [TLE] The 1962 Spy Exchange of Powers for Abel | Francis Gary Powers, Jr. [PAR] Francis Gary Powers departed from a military airbase in Peshawar in a U-2, 
which was shot down by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Surface to Air) missile on May 1, 
1960, over Sverdlovsk. ... He was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison, three 
years of ... the Central Intelligence Agency to become one of the first U-2 pilots in 
1956. [DOC] [TLE] Fifty Years Later, Gary Powers and U-2 Spy Plane Incident ... [PAR] Apr 30, 2010 ... The engine of the downed U-2 plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers on ... 
Powers, a veteran of the Korean War, was one of the first pilots to conduct the 
mission, and made numerous flights before he was shot down in 1960. [DOC] [TLE] Gary Powers: The U-2 spy pilot the US did not love - BBC News [PAR] Jan 3, 2016 ... Gary Powers, the US pilot in the Cold War prisoner exchange depicted in ... 
Francis Gary Powers at a Senate Committee hearing ... "He thinks about ejecting 
- that's the first thing pilots are trained to do - get out ... In a radio report from late 
1960, BBC correspondent Ian McDougall described one of the pilot's... [DOC] [TLE] CIA documents show US never believed Gary Powers was shot down [PAR] May 5, 2010 ... U-2 pilot Gary Powers, a few weeks before his suspicious death in a helicopter 
crash in LA, revealed that he did not believe his plane was shot down by the 
Soviets ... It is not a conspiracy theory that Lee Harvey Oswald, one of nine ... of 
his father, Francis Gary Powers, whose reputation has suffered for... [DOC] [TLE] The True History in Bridge of Spies | At the Smithsonian |

Question: Francis Gary Powers was piloting one when he was shot down in 1960
Answer: a U-2