Hostile targets were quickly neutralized as the Navy traded a frantic film processing window for digital imagery that sent coordinates to munitions in near-real time.
By Miriam Adler ·
Potential targets and their subsequent destruction were mapped from 40,000 feet by a flying laboratory the public believed was simply an aesthetically appealing aircraft.
By Miriam Adler ·
Those watched from 13,000 feet remain unknown, as SAIC built drones that could be hauled behind a nondescript van and operated by two people to watch without being seen.
By Marcus Boone ·
Cold war communist countries were watched via deep penetration flights that operated in a grey zone of international law, paving the way for the U-2 and SR-71.
By Miriam Adler ·
Pilots flew below a wall of smoke and through anti-aircraft artillery over Kuwait to locate targets that Allied fighter-bombers destroyed within twenty-four hours.
By Miriam Adler ·
North Korean activities were scrutinized in a relentless, seven-day-a-week operation that turned the DMZ into a laboratory of movement and pattern.
By Miriam Adler ·
Pilots risked boiling blood in pressure suits while the government hid that the invisible spy plane was actually one of the largest radar targets ever detected.
By Miriam Adler ·
The public was told flights stayed in international waters while US aircraft penetrated deep into Chinese airspace and four planes were shot down.
By Marcus Boone ·
World leaders teetered on the edge of nuclear exchange as Kennedy maintained strategic vagueness over a naval quarantine and sought foreign crews to monitor Soviet missile sites.
By Miriam Adler ·