U-2 – Strategic reconnaissance a/c

The Dragon Lady is said to be difficult to fly, but remaining for more than 12 hours in its cockpit must have been an actual ordeal…

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Sending Japanese military aircraft to China might have been sensitive matter

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The Japanese military could have delivered assistance in what would have been its first deployment to China since the end of World War II and a step in strengthening Sino-Japanese ties, long troubled by their wartime past.

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