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Old April 8th 04, 01:10 PM
John Bailey
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Default CIA U2 over flight of Moscow

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:50:58 GMT, Jerry Ennis
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:45:51 -0400, "Douglas A. Gwyn"
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There is a declassified redacted version of a SECRET/NOFORN
report on the U-2 program, "The Central Intelligence Agency
And Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs,
1954 - 1974", released under FOIA at the CIA Web site. (You
have to conduct a search for it; there is not a unique URL.)
The 4 July, 1956 flight over the Soviet Union (which was the
first such U-2 flight) passed over Leningrad, not Moscow.
The *only* Moscow overflight was on 5 July, 1956; on page 103
of the referenced document (112 if you type it into the goto
box on the Web site) there are photographs from both days.
There is information about the Moscow overflight two pages
past the point I previously mentioned.


URL is http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/U2/index.htm


Thanks--I cross-posted this to rec.aviation.military whose readers may
find some of this interesting.

Adobe page 57 is Page 45 of the report: Major Design Features of the
U2. Hardly technical, it was nonetheless an interesting read.



John Bailey
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Old April 8th 04, 02:40 PM
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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:10:00 GMT, (John
Bailey) wrote:

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:50:58 GMT, Jerry Ennis
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 19:45:51 -0400, "Douglas A. Gwyn"
wrote:


There is a declassified redacted version of a SECRET/NOFORN
report on the U-2 program, "The Central Intelligence Agency
And Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs,
1954 - 1974", released under FOIA at the CIA Web site. (You
have to conduct a search for it; there is not a unique URL.)
The 4 July, 1956 flight over the Soviet Union (which was the
first such U-2 flight) passed over Leningrad, not Moscow.
The *only* Moscow overflight was on 5 July, 1956; on page 103
of the referenced document (112 if you type it into the goto
box on the Web site) there are photographs from both days.
There is information about the Moscow overflight two pages
past the point I previously mentioned.


URL is
http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/U2/index.htm

Thanks--I cross-posted this to rec.aviation.military whose readers may
find some of this interesting.

Adobe page 57 is Page 45 of the report: Major Design Features of the
U2. Hardly technical, it was nonetheless an interesting read.



John Bailey
http://home.rochester.rr.com/jbxroads/mailto.html


It is interesting how far back the design elements of these aircraft
can be dated. High altitude jet aircraft technology was achieved by
the Germans in WW2. A Horton aircraft design which was apparantly
first conceived in 1931 was capable of flying at 52,000 feet.

 




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