Historic moment: In 5 days time it will be 50 years exactly since John MacArthur (RAF) flew a U-2C across the Soviet Union.
This extract from
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/u2.htm reads
22nd Soviet Overflight Mission 8009, the second mission flown by the RAF. On 5th Feb 60 flown by Flt Lt John MacArthur out of Peshawar. Headed northwest over the Aral Sea looking for missile sites, but discovered a new Soviet Bomber at Kazan. Eight Tu-22 BLINDER aircraft captured on film. Then south down the Volga over the missile factory at Dnepropetrovsk. After leaving Soviet airspace at Sevastopol, MacArthur landed at Incirlik.
The MacArthur flight lasted almost 9 hours and he landed with 18 gallons of fuel remaining!
