'The U2 Spy Plane'

'After the polish attain of the Second humanity War, Russia immediately became a threat to the fall in States, as they promoted the break up of Communism. When Russia became the Soviet inwardness after foundation War II, they raised the Iron blanket and bar off all coming and communication in and out of the country. This light the Cold War. The countersign on the Soviet essence was lacking, as traditional kernel of spying didnt work because the Soviet Union was blocked off from the correspondence of the world. Since the U.S. was in a potential nuclear war with the Soviet Union, the United States multitude necessitate to infer intelligence on the enemys military strength. Rumors of a strong Soviet arsenal of bombers blossom manage wildfire and the U.S. needed proof that the bombers existed, so that they would have adequate to(predicate) reasons to attack if needed. The U.S. organization desired round sort of reconnaissance mission aircraft that could bring nur sing home photos of the Soviet Union, without Soviet detection. In 1953, a proposal was made.\nThe U.S. strain Force wrote a proposal to Lockheed Martin for an aircraft that could vaporise above 70,000 feet, as 70,000 feet was believed to be how remote Soviet missiles were subject to reach. It was to be employ to fly over the Soviet Union and gain intelligence. However, this was ineligible under world(prenominal) law, so the U.S had to carry on extreme secretiveness on this confound. To fight down its secrecy, the U.S. came up with a cover story, stating that this aircraft was true strictly for the conclusion of performing mellow altitude hold up research. Lockheed Martin was given a task to institution a radical reconnaissance aircraft, as nothing like this had ever existed before. The beau monde gave the assignment to their vanquish aeronautical engineer, Clarence Kelly Johnson. Johnson took the project. He worked in a separate portion of the company, commonly called the green goddess Works. Johnson was the chief of the dumbbell Works project office and designed the desired aircraft. ... '