´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.
Lavochkin La-250A ´Anaconda´ (Ла-250A «Анаконда»), the fourth prototype of high-altitude interceptor, open-air exhibition at the Central Air Force Museum in Monino, July 2017. With continuous growth of the jet-powered aviation, that arrived in the mid-1950s, […]
Face-to-face with Tupolev Tu-144D / Ту-144Д (CCCP-77115), a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner (SST), exhibited at XIII International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, July 2017. On 31st December 1968, the first prototype of Tu-144 performed its […]
Yakovlev Yak-23 (NATO reporting name ´Flora´), Polish Air Force ´06´, exhibited at the static display during a joint event of the 10th anniversary of F-16 service in the Polish Air Force and the Polish Air […]
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