TY - BOOK ID - 77917164 TI - Remembering the Dragon Lady AU - McIlmoyle, Gerald E AU - Bromley, Linda Rios PY - 2011 SN - 1907677852 9781907677854 9781907677205 1907677208 PB - Solihull, West Midlands, England Helion & Co. DB - UniCat KW - U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft) KW - Lockheed U-2 (Airplane) KW - Lockheed aircraft KW - Reconnaissance aircraft UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77917164 AB - With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft in the US inventory were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and a number of cross-border flights were shot down. To meet the challenge and improve the survivability, the Lockheed Corporation received approval for their revolutionary design of a new recon aircraft on December 9, 1954. The company began ER -