spy plane
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The incident took place a day after it emerged that two Russian warplanes had "repeatedly and dangerously" intercepted an RAF spy plane over the Black Sea last month.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
The U.S. sent a P-8A Poseidon spy plane but elected not to send a destroyer as it had in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
He was that Francis Gary Powers, the Air Force officer piloting a U2 spy plane that the Russians shot down in 1960.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024
The best known is NASA's ER-2, a derivative of the U-2 spy plane with a tiny fuselage and gangling, oversized wings.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023
One year and nine months after his U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviets, the pilot-spy Francis Gary Powers crossed into West Berlin, a free man.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
