´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.
The Alaska Highway was completed, allowing the opening of the Northwest Staging Route, one of the most important air ferry routes in the World War II. When the United States officially joined the Allies war […]
Beriev A-50 / А-50У airborne early warning and control aircraft, NATO reporting name: Mainstay (´41´ Taganrog / Таганрог), static display at International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, Zhukovsky, July 2017. The story of Soviet airborne […]
Yakovlev Yak-18T (OK-YAK, c/n 10-32) on the runway of Roudnice airfield, during the 15th Memorial Air Show, June 2019. At the beginning, there was a Yak-18, a two-seat, in tandem configuration, primary training aircraft designed […]
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