There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world ... “When you’re at altitude you can see the curve of the earth. And the sky is totally black when you look straight up,” Stan ...

Forbes writer Jim Clash at the edge of space in a U-2 spy plane, August 21, 2024. (Note reflection ... [+] of Earth’s curvature in the helmet visor.) At one point, a commercial airliner passed ...

In light of this, Americans have decided to deploy their emblematic spy plane, the U-2 Dragon Lady ... ascend to a height of 88,583 feet above the Earth's surface and can carry out daily and ...