Getting the large aircraft on the carrier was a feat itself.
Key point: Getting the U-2 where it needed to go, required transporting literally over seas. Here is how it was done.
On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a CIA U-2 spy plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It was an international crisis for America’s intelligence agencies.
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
A planned summit between Pres. Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was scuttled, much to Eisenhower’s embarrassment and to the fury of the Pakistanis, from whose territory the flight had been launched.