The lockheed U-2 is helped created Area 51 and spied in the Soviet union from the edge of the space. The U-2 was one of the Cold war infamous aircraft ,Why? Because the aircraft is designed for fly under the unfriendly territory too high for enemy aircraft or missiles and take picture of unparalleled detail only the Area 51 can see the picture. The U-2 is almost 20 years after fielding biplane fighters. Using the camera that could render detail down to two-and-a-half-feet from the position 13 miles. The U-2 can be fly into 70.000 feet with 21.3Km up with the blackness of space.
Major John Cabigas were flew the U-2 plane during the cold war and Major John Cabigas is the second-highest human on the planet.
The U-2 story:
In the mid-1950s, Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev warned the US that the USSR was making missiles “like sausages” and shows of strength at events such as the 1955 Moscow Air Show made it seem that Soviet bomber factories were working round the clock. The details of the communist state’s armament production were a mystery until the first U-2 flight from Germany in 1956. As Lockheed’s own blog on the U-2 states, it soon became apparent that the vast Russian steppes were not crammed with bomber factories, but were mostly assembling tractors. This vital intelligence meant US president Dwight D Eisenhower stepped back from a massive arms race which could have led to nuclear confrontation.
On 1 May 1960, a CIA U-2 piloted by Gary Powers took off from Peshawar in Pakistan on a mission to photograph the closed city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), before flying north across to the USSR to land in Norway. A Soviet missile battery near Sverdlovsk had other ideas – Powers’ aircraft was hit and the pilot was forced to eject, and was held prisoner by the USSR for two years.
The U-2 pilot is dressed like a spacemen ,because the spy plane compatriots in the Lockheed's a has a faster-than-bullet SR-71 Blackbird. The U-2 pilot are housed in in the spacesuit, one which include feeding tubes to sustain then on hour-long mission's.
You can see the footage in this link guys :http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uQenNw2s1cA
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