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.

Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

* 1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot

* 1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

* In 2005, a fighter aircraft accompanying a Russian spy plane over the Baltic Sea violated Lithuanian airspace for about 20 minutes before crashing near Kaunas

* Taliban shoot down an unmanned United States spy plane.

" He had been forewarned of the R-7s capabilities by information derived from U2 spy plane overflight photos as well as signals and telemetry intercepts.

For example, during the development of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, Lockheed engineers at the " Skunk Works " under Clarence " Kelly " Johnson used unobtainium as a dysphemism for titanium.

** Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane.

** The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB.

In the book Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon, it is claimed that he flew the U-2 spy plane, a U. S. Air Force aircraft which took the pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba which President Kennedy used on television on October 22, 1962.

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

On September 1, 1983, the Korean Air Flight 007, a South Korean civilian airliner, flew over Sakhalin and was shot down by the Soviet Union, just west of Sakhalin Island, near the smaller Moneron Island ; the Soviet Union claimed it was a spy plane.

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.

Aerial surveillance is the gathering of surveillance, usually visual imagery or video, from an airborne vehicle — such as a unmanned aerial vehicle, helicopter, or spy plane.

* 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.

Jenkins is also the birthplace of country music star Gary Stewart and U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers.

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

Privately, however, the CIA and President Dwight D. Eisenhower were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret spy plane imagery.

In the 1950s, Edwin Land and his team helped design the optics of the revolutionary Lockheed U-2 spy plane.

Also featured in 1997, 2007, and 2008 was a Lockheed U-2 spy plane.

The Corona project was pushed forward rapidly following the shooting down of a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in May 1960.

* Rolf Ekéus, Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, arranges for a loan to UNSCOM of an US Lockheed U-2 spy plane for taking surveillance photos of Iraq.

Advertising videos directly compared Cyclone to the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 spy plane.

* James Gilbert Baker ( 1914 – 2005 ), American astronomer and optics expert ; designed U-2 spy plane lenses ; over 50 patents

Portsmouth Constabulary jumped the gun and arrested one on 3 August, and not all of the 22 were in custody by the time that McKenna made his speech, but the official history regards the incident as a devastating blow to Imperial Germany which deprived them of their entire spy ring, and specifically upset the Kaiser.

U. S. apology to China over spy plane incident, April 11, 2001.

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

A recent notable incident happened last year when Gillian Chung, a member of singing group Twins ( band ), was shot changing clothes at the backstage by spy camera installed by a subsidy magazine of Next Media.

The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.

As an attempt to put up a bold front, General Khalid Mahmud Arif of the Pakistan Army, while commenting on the incident, stated that " Pakistan felt deceived because the US had kept her in the dark about such clandestine spy operations launched from Pakistan ’ s territory.

The original consensus about the cause of the U-2 incident was that the spy plane had been shot down by one of a salvo of fourteen Soviet SA-2 missiles.

Kennan attempted to restore Tito's confidence in the American foreign policy establishment but his efforts were compromised by a series of diplomatic blunders and crimes, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the U-2 spy incident.

The Petrov Affair was a dramatic Cold War spy incident in Australia in April 1954, concerning Vladimir Petrov, Third Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Canberra.

This spirit of cooperation was severely damaged by the U-2 spy plane incident.

One of the aircraft based at Atsugi at least since 1957 was the U-2 spy plane piloted by Gary Powers, which provoked an international incident when it was downed over the Soviet Union.

* In February 1994, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, a convicted Soviet spy and the commander of South Africa's Simon's Town naval base at the time, talked about the incident upon his release from prison.

The case of Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet of Appuldurcombe against George Bissett for " criminal conversation ", that is adultery with Lady Worsley, revealed an incident in which Sir Richard had assisted Bissett to spy on Lady Worsley taking a bath.

Other explanations for the incident have included a downed Soviet spy satellite or a nuclear incident.

He also acquired some renown after an incident in 1936, in which some " beakies ", the informants used by the IRT to spy on union activities, attacked Quill and five other unionists in a tunnel as they were returning from picketing the IRT's offices.

This prevents a third party-perhaps, in this example, a corrupt postal worker-from copying a key while it is in transit, allowing the third party to spy on all future messages sent between Alice and Bob.

The Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels, initiated by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman, but authored anonymously, ran to over 260 separate books between 1964 and the early 1990s and invariably pitted American, Soviet and Chinese spies against each other.

In 1973, his novel Seventeen Moments of Spring ( 1968 ) was adapted to television as a twelve-part mini-series about the Soviet spy Maksim Isaev operating in wartime Nazi Germany as Max Otto von Stierlitz, charged with preventing a separate peace between Nazi Germany and America which would exclude the USSR.

Carter has mentioned that the relationship between Mulder and Scully — platonic but with sexual tension — was influenced by the chemistry between John Steed ( Patrick Macnee ) and Emma Peel ( Diana Rigg ) in the 1960s British spy TV program The Avengers.

The contrast between this dashing Italian spy and his timid parson in Hawtrey's play, showed his versatility as a character actor.

In 1892, the union's discovery of a labor spy in their midst, in the person of sometime cowboy and Pinkerton agent Charlie Siringo, resulted in a shooting war between miners and the company.

Discussions between US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and KGB spy Georgi Bolshakov played a vital role in realizing this tacit agreement.

The conflict between the party and the communist Finnish People's Democratic League culminated when President Paasikivi fired the Communist Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino, who had used the security police to spy on the party's youth organization among other abuses.

On 27 March 2007, wreckage from a Russian spy satellite was spotted by Lan Chile ( LAN Airlines ) in an Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand carrying 270 passengers.

Sinđelić was informed of the Ottomans ' actions by a spy and manuevered his forces between the towns of Svilajnac and Ćuprija.

John Brown, an American spy from Pittsfield, Massachusetts who had carried correspondence between revolutionary committees in the Boston area and Patriot supporters in Montreal, was well aware of the fort and its strategic value.

Still his position remained most delicate, especially when the betrothal between the grand-duke Peter and Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst ( afterwards Catherine II ) took place against his will, and Elizabeth of Holstein, the mother of the bride, arrived in the Prussian interests to spy upon him.

Most of his early novels whether suspense, spy, and western published between 1954 and 1960, were typical paperback originals of the era: fast-moving tales in paperbacks with lurid covers.

A recurring theme of this book is that information and by extension progress are inexorable: the conflict between the neo-luddite / monarchist New Republic and the post-singularity transhuman culture that contacts them is utterly devastating for the status quo of the former, and our spy heroes are world-weary enough to realize this, exasperated by their apparent inability to understand that one can no more avoid change than one can avoid breathing.

Muthesius was seen as something of a cultural ambassador, or industrial spy, between Germany and England.

The French military attaché at Berlin, Foucault, informed him of a curious conversation he had had with Richard Cuers, a spy who wavered between France and Germany.

In The Turkish Gambit, Fandorin is charged with the capture of a Turkish spy during the war between Russia and the Ottoman empire.

In Charles Stross ' novel The Jennifer Morgue, a British spy ( implied to be antithetical to the James Bond archetype of a spy ) mentions that Dunwich is a " treaty zone " between human and alien forces.

In the French movie L ' affaire Farewell ( 2009 ), he played the role of Russian KGB agent Colonel Sergei Gregoriev, the central focus of a web of intrigue between warring governments and rival spy agencies.

At the height of the Cold War between the Americans and Russians, and acting on information provided by American sources, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) warned Justice Minister Davie Fulton that Gerda Munsinger, an alleged prostitute and a possible spy, was having a sexual relationship with a cabinet minister.

Between 1932 and 1936, the Cipher Bureau took on additional responsibilities, including radio communications between military-intelligence posts in Poland and abroad, as well as radio counterintelligence — mobile direction-finding and intercept stations for the locating and traffic-analysis of spy and fifth-column transmitters operating in Poland.

As a result of the mission with Jihad, Nightshade was removed from her position as a spy and given the job of being the handler for the mentally unstable sorceress / Suicide Squad member known as the Enchantress as well as Amanda's go-between for interaction between Task Force X and rival government program known as Project ATOM ( which brought Nightshade into contact with the superhero Captain Atom ).

It is named in honour of the British novelist Ian Fleming who wrote a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the fictional British spy James Bond between 1953 and 1964.