´U-2 incident´
Francis Gary Powers, flying the U-2 spy-aircraft, was shot down near Sverdlovsk.
If you want to learn more about the incident and its background, we recommend to check one of our ´Photo of the Week´ episodes, describing the event in details.
Maiden flight of ´aircraft 174´, the jet aeroplane being a base for an early Soviet fighter, Lavochkin La-15 (Ла-15, NATO reporting name: Fantail) Lavochkin construction bureau, also known as OKB-301, is usually being associated with […]
Tupolev Tu-104A (c/n 76600503, formerly OK-LDA, operated by Československé Aerolinie / Czechoslovak Airlines – ČSA), open-air exhibition in Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague (Letecké muzeum Kbely), April 2013. Since the early 1950s, the turbojet propulsion was […]
The wreckage of the Lockheed U-2C, a United States spy aeroplane (code name Article 360, 56-6693), which was shot down near Sverdlovsk (today Yekaterinburg) on 1st May 1960. The aircraft is currently on display at […]
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