Seven Artifacts Surrounding The 1960 U 2 Shootdown Aviation Week Network
Former CBS anchor and commentator Walter Cronkite recalls the tension of spring 1960 when an American spy plane helped to plunge EastWest relations into one of the deepest chills of the Cold WarU2 Spy Plane Incident On , US pilot* Francis Gary Powers was allegedly shot down while flying an Air Force Lockheed U2 highaltitude reconnaissance airplane, affectionately known as the "Dragon Lady" He was 1,0 miles into Soviet Russia airspace, near Sverdlovsk, about 850 miles east of Moscow
