You are right
rhajaramjet, it is "Shimmons" & not simmons that I said. It's that Scottish 007 accent that I have
visitation, I am also only aware of Robinson & McArthur being the only RAF pilots that overflew the Soviet Union in a U-2. The four pilots were sent from Laughlin AFB to Detachment B at Inserlik, Turkey & were mainly used to ferry the U-2's to Peshewar in Pakistan where the Soviets had no Radar coverage. On December 6th, 1959 Robinson took off from Peshewar to overfly the Soviet Union & on February 5th 1960 McArthur also took off from Peshewar & filmed eight new TU-22 bombers at Kazam, which were given the NATO designation of "Blinder".