Premier Khrushchev wrecked the conference at its initial session with a bitter denunciation of the U. S. for the U-2 incident.

The next morning, Bundy met with Kennedy and showed him the U-2 photographs and briefed him on the CIA's analysis of the images.

Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

The U-2 was equipped with a state-of-the-art camera designed to take high-resolution photos from the edge of the stratosphere over hostile countries, including the Soviet Union.

In 1976, Powers ' biography ( written with Curt Gentry ) became a television movie, Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident.

The 1960 U-2 incident, involving Francis Gary Powers, as well as the Berlin Crisis, along with the test of the Tsar Bomba, escalated tensions still further.

* 1960-Nikita Khrushchev cancels summit conference with Eisenhower after U. S. U-2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union

In 1955, the Skunk Works received a contract from the CIA to build a spyplane known as the U-2 with the intention of overflying the Soviet Union and photographing sites of strategic interest.

In July 1963, the 4028th Strategic Reconnaissance Weather Wing, equipped with U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft, began flying global missions from Davis-Monthan.

The DC-130s and U-2s remained at the Davis-Monthan until 1976, when the 100 SRW was inactivated, its DC-130s transferred to Tactical Air Command's 432d Tactical Drone Group, and its U-2s transferred to SAC's 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing ( 9 SRW ) at Beale Air Force Base, California, where U-2 Dragon Lady operations were consolidated with SR-71 Blackbird operations.

From the over-sized runway and the massive hangar located at Air Force Plant 42 Site 9, NASA conducts worldwide environmental research with its ER-1 ( a U-2 variant ) and cutting edge deep space imaging with the 747-based SOFIA infrared telescope.

To accomplish this mission, the wing is equipped with the nation's fleet of U-2 Dragon Lady, RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, and the MC-12 Liberty reconnaissance aircraft and associated support equipment.

: A California Air National Guard squadron whose federal mission is to integrate with and support the 548th Intelligence Group in providing full spectrum imagery exploitation and multi-disciplinary products to the Total Force along with in-garrison communications, computer maintenance and integration and planning support functions for the $ 1 billion Distributed Ground Station-Two, exploitation arm for U-2, Global Hawk and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles.

Concurrent with this action the 100th's U-2 aircraft at Davis-Monthan would merge with the 9 SRW and its SR-71 operations at Beale.

After the Gulf War, the U-2 stayed in Saudi Arabia to monitor Iraqi compliance with the peace agreement.

This office may have been involved as a test project office for the Lockheed U-2, with whom Fort Walton Beach resident, World War II exile Polish pilot, and CIA officer, Ksawery Wyrożemski was involved.

Ayub continued his predecessors ' policy of a non-aligned alliance with the United States during the Cold War, joining CENTO and allowing the US and Britain access to facilities inside Pakistan, most notably the airbase outside of Peshawar from which U-2 intelligence flights over the Soviet Union were launched.

After World War II and during the Cold War, when the United States developed several dedicated reconnaissance designs, including the U-2 and the SR-71 to deal with the nuclear threat from the Soviet Union.

U-2 with fictitious NASA markings and serial number at the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, on 6 May 1960 ( NASA photo ).

In the aftermath of the U-2 Crisis Suslov was able to remove, and replace, several of Khrushchev's appointees in the Politburo with new anti-Khrushchevist members.

In August 1970, Detachment " G " of the Central Intelligence Agency arrived at the base with U-2 aircraft to monitor the Egypt / Israel Suez Canal fighting and cease fire.

" To bolster this, a U-2 plane was quickly painted in NASA colors and shown to the media.

The suit is a direct descendant of the U. S. Air Force high-altitude pressure suits worn by the two-man crews of the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots of the U-2 and X-15, and Gemini pilot-astronauts, and the Launch Entry Suits worn by NASA astronauts starting on the STS-26 flight, the first flight after the Challenger disaster.

Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.

The 9th Operations Group trains, organizes and equips U-2 Dragon Lady, RQ-4 Global Hawk and MC-12W Liberty combat elements for worldwide employment to include peacetime intelligence gathering, contingency operations, conventional warfighting and Emergency War Order support.

The group provides flight line maintenance, shop maintenance and quality assurance in support of U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft, T-38 companion trainers and Global Hawk Unmanned Air Vehicles.

They provide for the medical needs of Beale AFB beneficiaries and support Beale's high-altitude flyers in the U-2 aircraft.

* 330th Aircraft Sustainment WingThe wing provides weapon system logistics support, oversees unscheduled and programmed depot maintenance, and manages modification efforts for the Air Force ’ s fleet of C-5, C-130, C-17, F-15, U-2, and E-8C Joint STARS aircraft, Global Hawk, Distributed Common Ground System ( DCGS ), MC-130, HC-130 and various special operations combat search and rescue aircraft and helicopters to include AC-130H / U, MC-130E / H / P, EC-130J, MH-53J / M, HH-60G, UH-1N, TH-1H, and HC-130P / N.

He was also stationed for a time at Guantanamo Bay, where he flew missions in support of U-2 planes reconnoitering Cuba.

A related contemporary example are the wingtip support wheels (" Pogos ") on the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, which fall away after take-off and drop to earth ; the aircraft then relies on titanium skids on the wingtips for landing.

Adenauer allowed U-2 planes, pilots, and support teams to be based at Wiesbaden.

US officials were worried that one of the Cuban or Soviet SAMs in Cuba might shoot down a CIA U-2, initiating another international incident.

They decided to transfer the Cuban U-2 reconnaissance missions to the Air Force ; if another U-2 was shot down, they thought a cover story involving Air Force flights would be easier to explain than CIA flights.

However, the 1960 shootdown of a CIA U-2 by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) while on a clandestine reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union suddenly complicated the introduction of these new aircraft.

On May 1 1960, an American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers while under the employ of the CIA, was shot down over Sverdlovsk Oblast.

* Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while over the Soviet Union, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

* Francis Gary Powers, the CIA U-2 pilot shot down over the USSR in 1960-might have served in the USAF near Milledgeville.

* Francis Gary Powers, American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace.

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No additional air strikes against Cuban airfields and aircraft were specifically planned before 17 April, because B-26 pilots ' exaggerated claims gave the CIA false confidence in the success of the 15 April attacks, until U-2 reconnaissance photos on 16 April showed otherwise.

* 1960-U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace

*" The CIA and the U-2 Program " ( 1998 ) – Central Intelligence Agency

* Richard M. Bissell, Jr., CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Bay of Pigs Invasion planner, father of U-2 ; formed the basis for Matt Damon's character in the The Good Shepherd

* Project GUSTO, the CIA project to design an aircraft to succeed the Lockheed U-2

His works detail the formation and development of the CIA, the origins of the Cold War, the U-2 incident, the Vietnam War, and the John F. Kennedy assassination.

On the recommendation of representatives from the State and Defense departments, including Gates, President Eisenhower later admitted that the U-2 was on an intelligence-gathering mission ( actually under CIA control ) and assumed responsibility for the flight.

The Incirlik Air Base was the main U-2 flight base in this entire region until 1 May 1960, when a volley of about 14 Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missiles shot down the U-2 of the American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers near Sverdlovsk, Russia, a test site in the Soviet Union's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ( ICBM ) program.

According to CIA Director William Colby, a tiny saxitoxin-impregnated needle hidden inside a fake silver dollar was issued to Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot who was shot down while flying over the USSR in May 1960.