[Ken522]

Are you telling me the U-2 had folding wings???!!

[null and void]

"Hey! They're lighting their arrows!... Can they DO that?"

[headstamp 2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CUV3o4PLA&feature=youtu.be

[MrB]

Yeah, but I bet they didn’t land them back on the carrier...

[Menehune56]

Very interesting, thanks for finding this!

[Starboard]

Fascinating article. Thanks for posting.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Mouton]

Powers who was captured was exchanged later for KGB Col Rudolf Abel who had operated a spy ring in the US for many years in the NYC area.

[Navy Patriot]

Yep, very limited operations from aircraft carriers, and even folding wings. Bunch of stuff and videos Here

[Fiji Hill]

On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for America’s intelligence agencies.

A planned summit between Pres. Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was scuttled, much to Eisenhower’s embarrassment and to the fury of the Pakistanis, from whose territory the flight had been launched.

Khrushchev's outrage over this incident was rather phony--at the time, he was running a swarm of espionage agents in the West. Nonetheless, the Powers affair provided a convenient pretext to cancel the summit, which would probably have embarrassed Khrushchev by showing the world how tough the US and its NATO allies were hanging in opposing his efforts to force us out of West Berlin.