Spyplane
Subtitle: The U-2 History
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: April 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780760309575
Subjects: Military vehicles; Military - Aviation; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Military Science; History / Military / Aviation; U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)
First sentence: In the autobiography of his White House years, President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote: THE U-2 RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAM HAD BEEN BORN OF NECESSITY.
Description: This book discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. It includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam), the Francis Gary Powers incident, and NASA's use of the U-2. It contains material from declassfied CIA documents. The inner workings and heavily censored history of Lockheed's dynamic U-2 spyplane are revealed in this informative design, development and operational history from 1954.