In any event, the U-2 incident caused much embarrassment to the US and (not surprisingly) put a bit of a strain on US/Soviet relations. Ah, The Cold War. Those were the days, weren't they? Back then all we had to worry about was total world annihilation followed by nuclear winter (for those of us unlucky enough to escape annihilation). Back then, the Soviets were the ones fucking up Afghanistan. Regardless, in honor of today, here are a few super awesome pictures that I took a couple of years ago. It's a pretty bad-ass looking plane, no? And the wingspan is ridiculous. As a side note, you're gonna have to deal with the fact that I talk about aviation and aerospace a lot. Though, if airplanes bore you then you are clearly a freak. |
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