Beale AFB conducts historic U-2 Dragon Lady flight, 11 years in the making
August 04, 2025
August 04, 2025
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:
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Beale AFB conducts historic U-2 Dragon Lady flight, 11 years in the making
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) -- On the evening of July 31st, a TU-2S Dragon Lady from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing took off from Beale Air Force Base to begin a flight unlike any the U-2 airframe had done before. Seventy years after the very first Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady's accidental maiden flight i . . .
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Beale AFB conducts historic U-2 Dragon Lady flight, 11 years in the making
BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) -- On the evening of July 31st, a TU-2S Dragon Lady from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing took off from Beale Air Force Base to begin a flight unlike any the U-2 airframe had done before. Seventy years after the very first Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady's accidental maiden flight i . . .