This Is How High The U-2 Spy Plane Can Fly

The Lockheed U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ began as one of the most secret projects of the early Cold War and was built specifically for it. This was a time when deep US and USSR rivalry was settling in and starting to shape the world order, and yet the US had no way to monitor what was happening deep within the USSR. Satellites didn’t exist, and foreign journalists were banned from the country.