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30. Apr. 2024 · U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured while on a reconnaissance flight. On May 7, 1960, Nikita S. Khrushchev revealed that Powers had parachuted to safety, was alive and well in Moscow, and had testified that he had taken off from Peshawar.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- United States aircraft U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R.
- The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance...
- Francis Gary Powers was tried (August 17–19, 1960) and sentenced to 10 years’ confinement by the Soviets, but he was exchanged for the Soviet spy R...
30. Apr. 2024 · The downing of Francis Gary Powers’ U-2. Built in complete secrecy by Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, the original U-2A first flew in August 1955. Early flights over the Soviet Union in the late 1950s provided the president and other US decision makers with key intelligence on Soviet military capability.
21. Apr. 2024 · U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers receiving his sentence in Moscow, 1960. (more) At first the plane was used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to monitor electronic emissions, to sample the upper atmosphere for evidence of nuclear weapons tests, and to photograph sites deep within the territory of the ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The U-2 aircraft was designed by aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson, head of the Lockheed Corporation's famous, semisecret "Skunk Works." It was b...
- A prototype of the U-2 aircraft first flew in 1955.
- The U-2 aircraft, built of aluminum and limited to subsonic flight, can cruise for many hours above 70,000 feet (21,000 meters) with a payload weig...
- The last aircraft in the U-2 series was built in 1989.
- The U-2 Incident was a confrontation in 1960 between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconna...
17. Apr. 2024 · The debate surrounding CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers demonstrated that characteristics of the human condition like self-preservation and an open mind were unacceptable flaws in the eyes of the Cold War state. Only an automaton could serve as the ideal spy.
1. Mai 2024 · With his airplane damaged and out of control, pilot Francis Gary Powers bailed out and parachuted safely but was immediately captured. A trailing MiG-19 fighter was also shot down by the salvo of anti-aircraft missiles, and its pilot killed.
TIL that captured U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was the last prisoner at the infamous KGB prison Lubyanka. Powers was tried and convicted by the Soviet authorities and was later traded for captured Soviet spy Col. Vilyam Fisher (a.k.a. Rudolf Abel).
1. Mai 2024 · With his airplane damaged and out of control, pilot Francis Gary Powers bailed out and parachuted safely but was immediately captured. A trailing MiG-19 fighter was also shot down by the salvo of anti-aircraft missiles, and its pilot killed.
