The flight over the 48 contiguous states came just days after the U-2 Dragon Lady was the star of the show at the 2025 Royal International Air Tattoo. Last week, a Lockheed TU-2S Dragon Lady took ...

A trainer variant of the U-2S high-altitude surveillance jet covered more than 6,000nm over 14h, crossing all 48 contiguous states of the continental USA.

The Air Force pushed the limits of its storied U-2 spy airplane and the aircraft’s crew in late July with a record-breaking, ...

The US Air Force celebrated the 70th anniversary of the famous U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane on July 31, 2025 – not with a cake ...

The U-2’s record breaking flight was organised to mark the aircraft type’s 70th anniversary of flight. The first U-2 test flight, on Aug. 1, 1955, was accidental.

The U-2 is routinely flown at altitudes over 70,000 feet, thanks ot its glider-like aerodynamics. The large, flexible ...

Having first entered service in 1955, the U-2 fleet has been upgraded several times with modernised avionics and improved onboard cameras. The example flown at RIAT was delivered to the USAF in 1980.