'The U2 Spy Plane'

' subsequently the end of the here and now World state of war, Russia straightaway became a terror to the unify States, as they promoted the spread of Communism. When Russia became the Soviet yoke after World War II, they raised the beseech Curtain and bar send off in all access and discourse in and go forth of the country. This ignited the gelid War. The learning on the Soviet summation was lacking, as traditional means of detection didnt give-up the ghost because the Soviet Union was blocked off from the rest of the world. Since the U.S. was in a electromotive force nuclear war with the Soviet Union, the United States troops needful to accession intelligence on the oppositions military strength. Rumors of a noticeable Soviet inventory of bombers spread care wildfire and the U.S. needed verification that the bombers existed, so that they would take hold adequate reasons to barrage if needed. The U.S. government craved some break up of reconnaissance mis sion aircraft that could dumbfound home photos of the Soviet Union, without Soviet detection. In 1953, a scheme of marriage was made.\nThe U.S. Air propel wrote a proposal to Lockheed Martin for an aircraft that could fly front supra 70,000 feet, as 70,000 feet was believed to be how far Soviet missiles were able to reach. It was to be used to fly over the Soviet Union and gain intelligence. How ever so, this was illegal chthonian international law, so the U.S had to maintain natural secrecy on this project. To maintain its secrecy, the U.S. came up with a compass story, stating that this aircraft was developed stringently for the purpose of perform high height weather research. Lockheed Martin was given up a project to design a revolutionary reconnaissance aircraft, as postal code like this had ever existed before. The company gave the subsidisation to their best aeronautic engineer, Clarence Kelly Johnson. Johnson took the project. He worked in a identify division of the company, ordinarily called the Skunk whole shebang. Johnson was the antique of the Skunk Works project mightiness and designed the in demand(p) aircraft. ... '