'The U2 Spy Plane'

' after state of ward(prenominal) the end of the bite World contend, Russia right off became a flagellum to the joined States, as they promoted the spread of Communism. When Russia became the Soviet coalescency after World War II, they raised the beseech Curtain and block up off totally access and discourse in and reveal of the country. This ignited the cold-blooded War. The intelligence operation on the Soviet concretion was lacking, as tralatitious means of spying didnt come because the Soviet Union was blocked off from the rest of the world. Since the U.S. was in a electromotive force nuclear war with the Soviet Union, the United States military infallible to recognise intelligence on the oppositenesss military strength. Rumors of a inviolate Soviet inventory of bombers spread give care wildfire and the U.S. needed proofread that the bombers existed, so that they would pass on adequate reasons to contend if needed. The U.S. government coveted some m iscellanea of reconnaissance mission aircraft that could bring home photos of the Soviet Union, without Soviet detection. In 1953, a object was made.\nThe U.S. Air push wrote a plan to Lockheed Martin for an aircraft that could travel in a higher place 70,000 feet, as 70,000 feet was believed to be how far Soviet missiles were able to reach. It was to be used to fly over the Soviet Union and gain intelligence. How perpetually, this was illegal low international law, so the U.S had to maintain peak secrecy on this project. To maintain its secrecy, the U.S. came up with a grok story, stating that this aircraft was developed purely for the purpose of performing high tiptop weather research. Lockheed Martin was presumptuousness a assign to design a revolutionary reconnaissance aircraft, as secret code like this had ever existed before. The company gave the subsidisation to their best aeronautical engineer, Clarence Kelly Johnson. Johnson took the project. He worked in a fall in division of the company, usually called the Skunk whole shebang. Johnson was the chief(prenominal) of the Skunk Works project accountability and designed the desired aircraft. ... '