U-2 - Sweat Shirt Size:4XL S Air Force's primary pilot

S Air Force's primary pilot training aircraft from 1957 to 2009

361st Fighter Group

During the Great War the squadron operated Sopwith Strutters

Flight Lieutenant Eric Stanley Lock

There are still a small number of these legendary aircraft flying today

U-2 - Sweat Shirt Size:4XL S Air Force's primary pilotLockheed U 2 'Dragon Lady' World War II taught the US military the value of strategic aerial reconnaissance. The Air Force commissioned the Beacon Hill Report that suggested an aircraft was needed that would carry advanced optics and operate at an altitude of over 70,000ft. Clarence Kelly Johnson from Lockheed designed a jet powered glider, the CL282. At this time the design was recommended to the CIA, so in 1955 the aircraft was re designated the U 2