Discover the story behind the plane that changed surveillance forever and earned a mythical place in aviation history.

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

The legendary SR-71 Blackbird retains the record for America’s fastest manned aircraft—ever. While almost everyone has heard of the American-made F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II platforms, many are ...

Another bout of notoriety occurred in 1960 when the Soviet Union shot down a Lockheed U-2 spy plane as it snapped photos of ICBM ... it was called a "Sackmesser." During World War II, American ...

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Three top secret US Air Force jets have been spotted flying in and out of the mysterious Area 51. The planes – part of the military’s top-secret passenger jet Janet fleet – took off from Harry Reid ...

including a monster 12,000-foot-long strip that is among the longest in the world. The highly classified facility gained notoriety during the Cold War when it was used to test the U-2 spy plane ...

Rodney Warwick on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear armageddon For those ... After 14 October, when American U-2 spy planes photographic evidence confirmed the IRBMs presence, ...