Here's a story that don't hink has received wide circulation. 5 pages with photos. Worth the read.

http://flinflonheritageproject.com/wp-c ... 022280.pdf

Cool story. A few years ago there was a story in Air and Space about a Chinese U2 pilot with flame out over Utah with night time dead stick landing at Cortez, CO. Guy did an awesome job, not a very long runway.

Very cool story.....pun intended.....thanks for sharing.

MTV

That's a great read, thanks for posting!

Brings back memories.

My father was stationed at Incerlik Force Base in Turkey in 1959 as a B-47 pilot in a secret squadron that was not supposed to exist. I was in the 8th grade at the time going to the American school on base. There were two U-2s stationed there; neither had any markings on them and both were piloted by civilians. While their missions were secret (ostensibly they were flying weather missions), but we as kids that watched them take off and head almost straight up speculated that they were really flying over Russia.

One of the pilots was named Gary Powers and I had met him in the Officers Club one time when with my dad. Then, in 1960, there was a news blackout at our base that lasted for about two weeks during which there were no U-2 flights being conducted. After the blackout, we learned that one of the U-2s that we watched so often had been shot down over Russia -- confirming our schoolyard speculations.

It is strange to see the picture of Khrushchev in the photograph in this article standing over the remains of the U-2 that we watched fly so gracefully so many years ago.