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.
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Plans for $2.5 billon San Diego Seaport are being adjusted in light of other downtown projects and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Developers of the massive Seaport project are reorganizing elements of the project in response to the burgeoning redevelopment of downtown.
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Thanks, Dad. Happy New Year
Randy Riley - Contributing columnist
A few weeks ago, I wrote about one of the best Christmas presents I ever received. It was a brand new, red Huffy Galaxy bicycle.
My parents bought it for me for a few reasons the main reason being that it was perfect for me to use on my early morning paper route. I caught my Dad and a neighbor assembling the bike before Christmas. That could have spoiled the surprise, but it did not.
I knew what I was receiving, but watching my Dad struggle to get everything assembled and working was a blessing. Dad worked hard for his family.
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I lost my virginity in Acapulco, Mexico on my 16th birthday. It’s a funny story but one that I mostly left out in my first book,
The Red Circle. So much ended up on the cutting room floor. I’ll tell that story soon enough but more about my scuba diving now.
I learned how to scuba dive without any pool sessions; it was all open-water Pacific Ocean dives from the start. Pretty soon I found I preferred diving without a buoyancy compensator, a kind of inflatable vest with an air hose plugged into it that most divers wear. I thought it was a crutch. To me, it was like the difference between swimming in a full suit of clothes and swimming in a Speedo. So I never used one. I also found I liked going down with two tanks, instead of the single tank most sport divers prefer. A second tank adds significant weight, so you have to be fit enough to handle it, but you get more bottom time and can swim serious distances.
From the Archives: Mission Bay holiday boat parade launched 50 years ago [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Fifty years ago the first annual boat Parade of Lights, was held on Mission Bay on Dec. 14, 1970. The peaceful flotilla of boats decorated with lights and ornaments featured Santa as well as a procession of church and youth choirs singing carols.
A distinctly San Diego celebration, the boat parade on Mission Bay preceded the more formal San Diego Harbor boat parade by a couple of years. Due to a rise in Covid-19 case, the parade has been cancelled for 2020.
From The San Diego Union, Tuesday, December 15, 1970: