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Remembering the Dragon Lady : memoirs of the men who experienced the legend of the U-2 spy plane /
With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying airc...
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Solihull, West Midlands, England :
Helion & Co.,
2011.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (page 399) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; From Idea to Reality; A Tribute to Our Leader; The Chosen Few; Flying with the Lady; It Took a Dedicated Team ... ; Dressing Up and Stepping Out; Dragon Lady Doctors; Dragon Lady Caregivers; To Launch a Recon Around the World; Alaska, North Pole and Vietnam Flights; Family And Community; Royal Air Force U-2 Pilots; Republic of China Air Force U-2 Pilots; Recommended Reading; Index | |
| 520 | |a With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft in the US inventory were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and a number of cross-border flights were shot down. To meet the challenge and improve the survivability, the Lockheed Corporation received approval for their revolutionary design of a new recon aircraft on December 9, 1954. The company began. | ||
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