Maj. Ryan Howland of the F-22 Combined Test Force at Edwards AFB, California, was at the controls for the first supersonic AIM-9X launch From an F-22 on 30 July 2012.
View All ArticlesU-2 Anniversary 7/16/2015
For sixty years, the U-2 Dragon Lady has been America's eyes, ears, and nose in the sky. Code One looks back at the U-2 program on the anniversary of its first flight.
U-2 Pilot Describes Earliest Missions 4/30/2015
Vito’s mission took him directly over Moscow and its extensive network of newly built air defenses, which ringed the city in three concentric circles at twenty, forty, and sixty miles from the city center.
Today's U-2 Fleet 9/14/2014
The end of U-2 production in 1989 marked the beginning of a host of evolutionary upgrades.
U-2 Factoids 9/13/2014
Facts, figures, and other essential details about the U-2 Dragon Lady.
Interview With U-2 Stats Keeper 9/12/2014
Reliability maintainability, and supportability lead engineer, tracks statistics for the U-2 program.
U-2 Life Support In Palmdale 9/8/2014
Mark Schroeder has had the responsibility of prepping, maintaining, testing, and inspecting survival equipment for U-2 missions.
U-2 Early History 2/15/2002
The U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, though designed and developed in great secrecy in the 1950s, has somehow never fully emerged from the shadows even though it has outlasted one successor, the SR-71 Blackbird.
U-2 Dragon Lady Operations At Beale AFB
U-2 First Flight
