U-2 CIA USAF HI-ALTITUDE SPY PLANE DRAGON LADY 60TH ANNIVERSARY vêlkrö red PATCH

Description: HIGH ALTITUDE CIA NASA NACA USAF U-2 DRAGON LADY SPY PLANE 1955-2015 60-YEAR vêlkrö PATCHThis is an original LOCKHEED TR-1/U-2 HIGH ALTITUDE SPY PLANE DRAGON LADY DRAGON LADY HIGH ALTITUDE SPY PLANE PATCH: CIA NASA NACA USAF U-2 DRAGON LADY SPY PLANE 1955-2015 60-YEAR vêlkrö PATCH. You will receive the item as shown in the first photo. Please note that there are color variations due to different settings on different PCs and different Monitors. The color shown on your screen is most likely not the true color. Personal checks are welcomed.The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, very high-altitude (70,000 feet / 21,000 m), all-weather intelligence gathering.The U-2 has also been used for electronic sensor research, satellite calibration, and communications purposes. Early versions of the U-2 were involved in several events through the Cold War, being flown over the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Cuba. In 1960 Gary Powers was shot down in a CIA U-2A over the Soviet Union by a surface to air missile. Another U-2 piloted by Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. was lost in a similar fashion in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The U-2 is one of a handful of aircraft types to have served the USAF for over 50 years. The newest models (TR-1, U-2R, U-2S) entered service in the 1980s. The current model, the U-2S, received its most recent technical upgrade in 2012. They have taken part in post-Cold War conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and supported several multinational NATO operations. The 17th BW was taken off alert at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, on 30 June 1975 and phased down, transferring aircraft by 7 July as part of SAC's inactivation at Wright-Patterson. It was reassigned without personnel or equipment to Beale AFB, California, on 30 September 1975 and absorbed resources of the 456th Bombardment Wing, including B-52G and KC-135Q aircraft. At Beale, the 17th continued global strategic bombardment alert to 30 June 1976 and used tanker aircraft primarily to refuel SR-71s of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing. The wing was inactivated on 30 September 1976 and replaced by the 100th Air Refueling Wing as part of a realignment of SAC assets. The wing was reactivated at RAF Alconbury England as the 17th Reconnaissance Wing on 1 October 1982. The operational squadron of the 17th RW was the 95th Reconnaissance Squadron. The wing flew tactical and strategic surveillance missions in Western Europe using the TR-1 (U-2R). At Alconbury, the 17th RW received the P. T. Cullen Trophy for providing “the greatest contribution to the intelligence gathering efforts of SAC” in 1989 and 1990. During 1990–91, many of the wing's assets and personnel supported operations in Southwest Asia by ferrying aircraft and equipment to Taif, Saudi Arabia. The 17th RW inactivated on 30 June 1991, but its subordinate unit, the 95th Reconnaissance Squadron, remained at Alconbury as a non-flying organization until 15 September 1993. The U-2Rs were consolidated at Beale AFB California in the 9th Wing. Royal Air Force Alconbury or more simply RAF Alconbury is an active Royal Air Force station in Huntingdon, England. The airfield is in the civil parish of The Stukeleys, close to the villages of Great Stukeley, Little Stukeley, and Alconbury. Opened for in 1938 for use by Bomber Command the station has been used from 1942 by the United States Army Air Force and then the United States Air Force. It was announced by the Pentagon on 8 January 2015 that RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth would be closing by 2020. Most of the units at Alconbury and Molesworth will be moved to RAF Croughton, along with the personnel. ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft - NASA operates two Lockheed ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft as flying laboratories in the Airborne Science Program under the Agency’s Science Mission Directorate. The aircraft are based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, and collect information about the Earth’s resources, celestial observations, atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, and oceanic processes. The aircraft are also used for electronic sensor research and development, satellite calibration, and satellite data validation. NASA acquired its first ER-2 aircraft in 1981 and the second in 1989. They replaced two Lockheed U-2 aircraft that NASA was using since 1971 to collect science data. The U-2s, and later the ER-2s, were based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, until 1997, when the ER-2s and their operations moved to NASA Armstrong. Since the Airborne Science Program’s inaugural flight on Aug. 31, 1971, NASA U-2s and ER-2s have flown more than 4,500 data missions and test flights in support of scientific research. NASA’s ER-2 set a world record for reaching an extreme altitude for this class of aircraft with a takeoff weight between 26,455 and 35,275 pounds on Nov. 19, 1998. The aircraft reached 68,700 feet. NASA’s ER-2s are an invaluable tool for studying lower stratosphere and the North American Monsoon Anticyclone (NAMA). During the summers of 2021 and 2022, the Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS) mission based in Salina, Kansas, carried 12 instruments aboard that took in situ measurements of important trace gases, aerosols, reactive species, and meteorological parameters. The measurements collected from DCOTSS helped scientists understand how strong convective systems penetrate the lowest layer of the stratosphere, also called the tropopause, with large-scale monsoonal motion, and the impact of that convection on the chemical composition of the lower stratosphere. During each flight that collected convection samples, the ER-2 executed several vertical profiles as well as level transects through convective outflow to fully characterize the plume as well as the surrounding background air. This campaign provided a better understanding on how these dynamic and chemical processes interact within the composition of the stratosphere, and how that composition may change in response to ongoing changes in the climate system. During a three-year campaign, the ER-2 spent winters in the Southeast U.S. to study snowfall. Snowstorms frequently organize in banded structures that have previously been poorly understood by scientists and poorly predicted by current numerical models. Since the last study on snowstorms, the capabilities of remote sensing technologies and numerical weather prediction models have advanced significantly. Due to this advancement, it is an ideal time to conduct a well-equipped study to identify key processes and improve remote sensing and forecasting of snowfall. For this campaign, Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS), the ER-2 and NASA’s P-3 aircraft based out of Wallops Island, Virginia, fly a complementary suite of remote sensing and in-situ instruments to address specific objectives, providing observations critical to understanding the mechanisms of snow band formation, organization, and evolution. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved and its assets and personnel were transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NACA is an initialism, i.e., pronounced as individual letters, rather than as a whole word (as was NASA during the early years after being established). Among other advancements, NACA research and development produced the NACA duct, a type of air intake used in modern automotive applications, the NACA cowling, and several series of NACA airfoils, which are still used in aircraft manufacturing. During World War II, NACA was described as "The Force Behind Our Air Supremacy" due to its key role in producing working superchargers for high altitude bombers, and for producing the laminar wing profiles for the North American P-51 Mustang.[5] NACA also helped in developing the area rule that is used on all modern supersonic aircraft, and conducted the key compressibility research that enabled the Bell X-1 to break the sound barrier..Your original SSI shades of color may vary from different US-Made batch/location and/or PC settings. You will receive the item as shown in the first photo. Other items in other pictures are available from my eBay Store. They will make a great addition to your SSI Shoulder Sleeve Insignia collection. You find only US Made items here, with the same LIFETIME warranty. 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