spy plane
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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
In August, a Chinese spy plane flew inside Japan's airspace, prompting Tokyo to condemn the incursion as "utterly unacceptable" and a "serious violation of sovereignty".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
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
With powerful jet engines and a wingspan longer than its fuselage, the spy plane was "part jet, part glider," according to Powers.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
