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The Secret History of the U-2
Chicago Tribune ^
| Jeffrey T. Richelson
| August 19, 2013
Posted on 08/30/2013 10:57:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
“and the plane went on to spy for the CIA until 1974”
They were operating them through the 80s because i used to see them fairy constantly coming into Burbank right past where I kept my airplane in the middle of the night with no lights for maintance at the Skunk Works.
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:02:44 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:22:20 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: dalereed
I think some are still flying but for NOAA or NASA doing scientific research.
Or is that for the NSA? Same difference, I guess.....
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:25:26 PM PDT
by
llevrok
("It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words....." - Geo. Orwell)
To: nickcarraway
I thought this was about the band U2 being on the CIA payroll.
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:33:11 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: dalereed
Obama is operating them now.
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:34:00 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:37:19 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
I think SR-71 was opening for them.
To: mylife
What a great designer. Kelly Johnson was a freaking aeronautical demigod.
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:43:35 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: edpc
Global Hawk cannot compare IMHO
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posted on
08/30/2013 11:50:49 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:02:43 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
Lost PTO power and skipped off a sand bank in the dark.
Would have made it with eyes.
Skipped into the face of another dune.
RIP
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:09:07 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:29:22 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: nickcarraway
The U-2 was certainly useful, but was not a success at photographing the USSR, as Gary Powers discovered. Only satellites were successful at that.
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:36:52 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: llevrok
On Google Earth I see some of them on the flight line at Beale AFB.
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:40:31 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: iowamark
You take one loss in 50 years and dis the program?
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:42:32 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: iowamark
Satellites are on a fixed pattern.
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posted on
08/31/2013 12:44:58 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
U-2’s have been lost over Cuba, China, and North Vietnam as well as the Soviet Union.
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posted on
08/31/2013 1:04:25 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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