Re: U-2 Info


Message posted by gary on March 18, 2001 at 10:35:35 PST:

http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/u2-index.htm

This link is a declassified CIA document about the U2. It reads like a spy novel. It has lots of interesting tidbits of information in it. For instance, the U2 needed a special fuel that would not boil at the low pressure of high altitude. It turns out they used a bug spray called FLIT for fuel. The U2 program caused a mysterious shortage of that bug spray. The U2 was also the source of many UFO sitings.

The book also goes into the Gary Powers incident. Old farts may remember the news film of Powers being exchanged for some spy on a bridge between East and West Germany.

The book also discusses the "dirty bird" U2's, which were a precusor to stealth technology.

Attached link: the cia and the u2

In Reply to: U-2 Info posted by Rocketfox on March 18, 2001 at 7:56:04 PST:

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