#u2 spy plane

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Lockheed U-2 Reconnaissance aircraft

On September 13, 1985, Major Doug Pearson made history when he destroyed a satellite with a missile launched from his F-15.

Declassfied Footage From U2 Spy Plane

North American X-15 Rocket-powered aircraft

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Strategic reconnaissance aircraft

Lockheed NF-104A Aerospace Trainer

[dronescapesvideos]

The story of Gary Powers and the U-2 Spy Plane that was shot down over the USSR, and the inspiration for the movie: "Bridge Of Spies" #Documentary at: https://youtu.be/jpUdxZRpUz8

#ColdWar #SPY #Soviet #skunkworks

[fullafterburner]

I like to paint as a hobby. I'm not 100% sure about the land background, but I think I'm calling this one complete. I have an F-4 on the to do list, so hopefully soon. One of my favorite aircraft designs. Not entirely fast...but I love the silhouette. Grace personified.

[usafphantom2]

Lightning F1As intercept Lockheed U-2, 72.000 ft. over the Arctic as part of high-level interception trials between RAF & USAF during the early 1960s.

@ron_eisele via X

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House Oversight Committee Holds A Hearing On Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP)

UAP...

[supplyside]

high flyers

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[phantasia-system]

Autism is winning. (About to transcribe a bunch of final black box recordings and write essays on plane crashes and then post the doc here) -DestructoDude

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

@dr-reids-fidget-toy#omg I didn’t know that about comic bucky that’s rlly cool

Starting a new post because I have off-topic Thoughts. Comic!Bucky contains fascinating commentary on the Cold War, WWII, and the media representations thereof. MCU!Bucky is (by necessity) pretty watered down. In the Brubaker comics, Bucky isn't brainwashed, at least not in the classic Marvel sense. He's just this guy who believes in the absolute rightness of his country, and has been in combat to support the U.S. since age ~14... and then he gets blown up by a missile, loses his memory, and Department X tells him "his country" is the USSR. So now he's the Winter Soldier. Nothing else about his personality or his politics changes. The Winter Soldier we see in the Brubaker comics is definitely a villain — he kills indiscriminately, kidnaps civilians to get his way, murders Rick Jones out of petty spite. But his personality is basically the same from childhood.

This is Steve remembering Bucky as a kid during WWII:

Brubaker retcons Bucky's role, from "kid sidekick who rushes in first and gets kidnapped, needing Captain America to rescue him," to "kid agent who infiltrates bases first, so that Captain America can follow him." With the memory loss, Bucky goes from slitting throats and setting off bombs for Uncle Sam, to doing it for Mother Russia. He's always been as cold and as willing to kill witnesses as he is as the Winter Soldier. It just never made the news reals.

And that's the other half of his retconned role: being propaganda for other child soldiers (e.g. Toro) who join up in his wake. This is Bucky and Steve watching a Cap and Bucky recruitment newsreel:

As an adult, the real difference isn't that Bucky is Soviet now; it's that he doesn't have Steve holding his leash anymore. To be clear, comic Winter Soldier also isn't free to come and go as he pleases — he's kept in a freezer between missions, he's probably not paid, he's in Department X — but he also has far more agency within the latitude of his orders. He's not dead-eyed and tortured by guilt like we see in the MCU. He goes on side quests to kill other Buckies. He argues constantly with Aleksander Lukin (the comic equivalent of Pierce). He complains about the inconvenience of not just sniping Steve in the head to steal the Tesseract.

Brubaker's point, throughout the comic, is that we have been lied to about World War II being "noble" or "good" or the story of the U.S. saving the day. And that that lie is used to prop up everything from U2 spy planes built with 100x the budget for education, to the Patriot Act nullifying the Fourth Amendment. Because not only is "WWII was a noble war fought without atrocities" nationalistic bullshit, but "Soviets are fundamentally different from us" is too. Bucky's continuity of character reveals both at once. He's a walking Soviet superweapon. Why? Because he was a walking American superweapon first, starting before he was old enough to shave.

Anyway, I get why the MCU had to change his backstory. You have to a) remind the audience who Bucky is, b) show-don't-tell why Steve is sad Bucky is trying to kill him, c) get across the idea that Bucky doesn't want to kill Steve but feels he has to, d) use Bucky to develop Steve's character, and e) set up a way for Bucky to get un-brainwashed. All within the span of ~30 minutes this movie has for this plot, amidst all the other plots. MCU!Bucky plaintively asking Pierce who Steve was, only to get slapped in the face, is sort of like AniTV!Tom constantly pawing at his ear: it quickly gets across that this character isn't acting under his own volition, in a way that minimizes audience confusion.

Plus: it's a Hollywood movie. It wouldn't get funded if it was too critical of the U.S. military. Movies are always, by definition, more conservative than other media because of their need for funding. And the MCU makes a decent effort to incorporate at least some criticism of the U.S., having Zola be involved in Operation Paperclip and having him (while working for the U.S.) order Howard Stark's murder. But a computer ghost reciting dry facts about the CIA recruiting Nazis doesn't have the same gut punch as watching the "good guys" send the literal child to knife his fellow child soldiers during WWII would have had.

[postpunkindustrial]

Negativland – Fair Use: The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2 Book and CD

From a description from the Bleak Bliss blog

“In 1991, Negativland’s infamous U2 single was sued out of existence for trademark infringement, fraud, and copyright infringement for poking fun at the Irish mega-group’s anthem “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” In 1992, Negativland’s magazine-plus-CD "The Letter U and the Numeral 2" was sued out of existence for trying to tell the story of the first lawsuit. In 1995 Negativland released "Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2," a  270-page book-with-CD to tell the story of both lawsuits and the fight for the right to make new art out of corporately owned culture.

The overwhelming (and very funny) "Fair Use" takes you deep inside Negativland’s legal, ethical, and artistic odyssey in an unusual examination of the ironic absurdities that ensue when corporate commerce, contemporary art and pre-electronic law collide over one 13-minute recording (and to hear the actual single itself, go here: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - 1991 A Capella Mix (7:15) I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - Special Edit Radio Mix (5:46) (Links inactive see below)

The book presents the progression of documents, events and results chronologically, contains the suppressed magazine in its entirety, and goes on to add much more that has happened since, to illuminate this modern saga of criminal music. Also included is a (at the time) definitive appendix of legal and artistic references on the fair use issue, including important court decisions, and a foreword written by the son of the American U-2 spy plane pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.

Packaged inside the book is a full-length CD containing a new 45-minute collage piece by Negativland, “Dead Dog Records”- which is both about artistic appropriation and an extensive example of it- plus a 26-minute “review” of the U.S. Copyright Act by Crosley Bendix, Director of Stylistic Premonitions for the Universal Media Netweb.”

For the book Fair Use doscumenting the legal battle between SST and Negativland you can get it from my Google Drive HERE

For rhe accompanying CD you can get that from my Google Drive HERE

And here is the thing that started it all you can get it Here

[thebreakfastgenie]

#haunts me#what does pop culture have to do with anything????? @maverickcalf

To be fair there are pop culture references in the original and those two examples are probably big enough to merit inclusion if Peyton Place and Wheel of Fortune did, but the original also throws them in to space out the big ticket events, which Fall Out Boy did not do. "Harry Potter, Twilight" is a terrible lyric.

I heard the didn't start the fire version FOB did, on the radio, for like three seconds, heard, " Harry Potter, Twilight." And NOPED out so hard. What the fuck was that, I am cursed now!

WHAT THE FUCK how is everything I hear about this song worse

[dronescapesvideos]

Lockheed/Skunk Works U-2 Dragonlady Spy Plane

SPY PLANES (VIDEO) https://youtu.be/D6qlSFMtXwQ

[petro1986]

Apropos of nothing, not only is Elon Musk a pathetic person, him being associated with SpaceX, sending people to the ISS, AND he's still not been to space (not even out of curiosity/boredom) that means even flying on private jets above most airliners... James May has been to a higher altitude than Elon

This man, James May has flown in the U2 spy plane, that gets above 60,000 feet in altitude, barely clinging onto what little air exists there, wearing a suit that served as the basis of most of NASA's space shuttle flight suits

Fuck Elon, love you James May

[usafphantom2]

We’ve all heard of Area 51. Famous aviation engineer Kelly Johnson, with a generous twist of irony, calls the parched desert “Paradise Ranch,” but do you know how they found Area 51?

Kelly nominated Tony LeVier, chief test pilot on the F104, to find a secret site from which to conduct flight tests for the new airplane designated to fly reconnaissance over China and Russia, the U2.

LeVier and Dorsey Kammerer, Skunk Works logistics specialist, took the company Beach Bonanza airplane for the search for two weeks of aerial surveillance. When they presented their ideas, none were good enough. In mid-April 1955, LeVier again used the Bonanza to fly Kelly Johnson, Richard Bissell, and Colonel Ozzie Ritland in a search for a secret area. Colonel Ritland, a pilot who had once dropped nuclear weapons near the Nevada nuclear test range, directed LeVier toward an old World War II airfield adjacent to Groom Dry Lake. The thought was that it was so dangerous up here near the test range. No one would be searching us out. They were right. Plenty of secrets were developed in Area 51, but no aliens. In the 1950s, people would write their congressman about seeing the U-2 in the air. It looked like a cross. They would write, claiming that if nothing flies that high, it must be a UFO. That is what started the conspiracy theories of UFOs. It was a perfect cover for what was going on.

They landed on the lake bed and within 30 seconds. They all knew that this was the place. This is going to be Paradise Ranch.

The public found out that Area 51 officially existed in August 2013 after Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson, a senior fellow at the George Washington University National Security Archive, submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request in 2005 for information on the CIA’s Lockheed U-2 plane reconnaissance program,

the secret construction and testing of spy planes used to gather intelligence.

The request forced the CIA to declassify documents on the history of the U-2 and A-12 OXCART program and the military base where the planes were constructed and tested — Area 51.

Source Lockheed Blackbird: Beyond the secret missions, the missing chapters by Paul Crickmore

Time Magazine

~Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.10 (after 1940)

1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. 1947 – The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II. 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. 1962 – Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. 1972 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates. 1984 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre. 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. 2004 – Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport. 2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. 2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. 2016 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4. 2018 – Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns. 2021 – The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 – Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.

[aproposofouroboros]

If you wanted to ask whether or not a certain American spy plane remarkably composed primarily of a diuranium compound, themed around a particular Irish rock band, was also doing something, you would ask:

You, too, U2 U₂ U2?