Aeroplane Monthly 1984-06
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C.Pocock - Dragon Lady. The accident file
U-2A 56-6715. The flaps, elevators and rudder are painted red.
This U-2A, 56-6722, is seen at RAE Bedford parked next to a Canberra PR 7 in March 1967. The U-2 survives to this day.
Photograph showing the pilot's equipment and wreckage from Gary Powers' U-2, shot down south of Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. A partial pressure suit and its helmet are seen on display in Moscow on May 11, 1960.
TR-1B 80-1064 is the sixth aircraft from the re-opened production line.