U-2 Dragon Lady

The U.S. Intelligence Community led the development of this very quiet and high-efficiency unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.USAF via FOIA/IARPANearly a decade ago, the U.S. Intelligence Community began work on an experimental ultra-quiet, high-efficiency reconnaissance drone with an advanced hybrid-electric propulsion system. Very limited details about this secretive project, known as Great…

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Dafydd Phillips shot a remarkable video of U-2 surveillance aircraft and B-2 strategic bombers operating out of RAF Fairford earlier this week. (Image credit: Dafydd Phillips) Ace aviation photographer Mr. Dafydd Phillips shot some breathtaking video of a Lockheed U-2 “Dragon Lady” and several B-2 Spirits flying out of and…

U-2, not U as well — They're useful flight- and pilot-monitoring tools, says the Air Force. Eric Tegler - Mar 13, 2020 5:15 pm UTC The current model U-2S aircraft features an all-glass digital cockpit, improved sensors, and propulsion systems. But its pilots still wear backup GPS/GLONASS-enabled watches, just in…

Join Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions! Subscribe Today! Over the years – decades, in fact – the CIA has declassified a wealth of UFO-themed documentation. The stash is filled with reports of UFO encounters filed by pilots, police-officers, scientists and members of the public. Many of those same…

A US Air Force general has revealed that pilots of the service's U-2 spy planes carry navigational watches capable of finding their way by using Chinese and Russian satellite networks if access to the US GPS network is interrupted. When the Air Force's U-2 "Dragon Lady" spy plane pilots fly…

U-2 Dragon Lady in beautiful lightPilots of U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ reconnaissance aircraft have a receiver chip in their watches that allows them to access the Chinese, Russian and European positioning systems, US Air Combat Command Chief James Holmes says Beidou went into commercial operation in 2018 and a third-generation service…

A US Air Force general has revealed that pilots of the service’s U-2 spy planes carry navigational watches capable of finding their way by using Chinese and Russian satellite networks if access to the US GPS network is interrupted.When the Air Force’s U-2 “Dragon Lady” spy plane pilots fly on…

PALMDALE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Air Force, Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) recently completed flight testing and deployment of the latest variant of th…

Key point: People like to talk and there are spies everywhere. No matter how good security is, few things stay a secret for eternity. There are few secret projects like U.S. Air Force black projects, and that was certainly the case for the famed SR-71 Blackb…