Neal Hinson, who flew the U-2 for about six years for the Air Force.
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The Air Force this year canceled plans to replace the U-2 with an unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk.
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The U-2 had almost a hundred and sixty people with its deployed element.
Iraq has now agreed to allow flights by U-2 intelligence-gathering planes, and to inspectors conducting private interviews with Iraqi scientists.
Developed by Northrop Grumman, it is designed to conduct high altitude surveillance missions and replace the U-2 spy planes, in use since the 1950s.
Details surrounding the U-2 program were long obscured by government secrecy.
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The Global Hawk can fly missions for up to 36 hours, three times the flying time of a U-2, due to the lifting of pilot restrictions.
The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
"The U-2 is an extremely capable surveillance platform that has one key advantage: It has already been paid for, " said Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst with Teal Group, an aerospace consultancy.
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But amid Pentagon budget pressures, the Air Force moved to cancel a version of the drone known as the "Block 30, " saying that the U-2 would be less expensive to operate.
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The unit cost of the U-2 is classified.
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It also underscores a little-remembered fact: Even in an era of high-tech drones, the Air Force still relies on manned spy planes such as modern versions of the U-2, five decades after the famous exchange.
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Military surveillance aircraft scoured the battlefield -- from the lowest-flying aircraft such as the Army's Hunter and the Marines' Pioneer, to the Predator, to the higher-flying Global Hawk and U-2 -- and on up to the information-gathering satellites.
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It is amazing that a 10-year U.S. Treasury note yields 2.70%, while the two-year U.S. Treasury yields 0.5%.
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This actually happened back in May 2009, when the CPI-U contracted by 2.78%, resulting in a 0% overall rate during that six month period for any I Bonds purchased since the Fall of 2001.
But with Internet traffic exploding--the U.S. produced 3.2 trillion Web-page views in 2005, up 22%--nothing keeps pace.
The Foreclosure Survey, which was administered by Harris Interactive from November 2-4, polled 2, 034 U.S. adults 18 years and older.
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The roundtable took place over eight hours on 26 February 1990 and brought together a group of extraordinarily knowledgeable individuals from the government, the private sector, and the press. (A list of participants is attached.) Its purpose was to review with care the implications of the B-2 for U.S. security, particularly those attending any decision not to proceed with its procurement as planned.
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Since Burger King nabbed merchandising deals with two of the most popular movies of the summer, Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2, same-store sales have been strong, with those in U.S. franchises up 11.8% in June.
By integrating various spatial, topographical and demographic databases, the Oak Ridge Siting Analysis for Power Generation Expansion (OR-SAGE) divides the U.S. into nearly 700 million 2.5-acre units that can be sliced and diced to determine if they are candidates for one or more types of electric power plant.
Amazon can service the continental U.S. with 2-day ground delivery, not having to rely on more expensive air shipping.
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain also progressed with a 6-2 6-3 win over former Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Lleyton Hewitt.
Earlier, home hope Murray gave the finals the perfect start with a 6-3 3-6 6-2 victory over U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro in their Group A match.
The battle for invisible, but highly valuable real estate, also finds the supposedly unified U.S. delegation taking divergent positions on whether a key portion of the spectrum currently used by fixed wireless operators in the U.S. - the 2, 500-MHz to 2, 690MHz band - should be opened up to mobile users.
Boeing received a contract in 2009 to fit the weapon on the U.S.'s B-2 Stealth Bomber.
We also identified 15 former detainees who are confirmed or are suspected of militant attacks against non-U.S. targets (2.5 percent).
In early June Vioxx was garnering 48% of new COX-2 prescriptions in the U.S., versus Celebrex's 52%, according to IMS Health.
The company's U.S.-based stock fell 2.6 percent in midday trading Thursday.
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