Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 1473873374 Jonathan GreenRolls Royce plc via Getty Images The gathering of aerial intelligence by a snooping aircraft ...

The most influential aircraft in modern aviation did not debut at an air show or in a glossy brochure. It arrived in total secrecy, flown by pilots whose names were classified, from a desert base that ...

Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, serving in a reconnaissance role as the RB-47 to monitor the Soviet military and its ...

Reconnaissance aircraft snoop around potentially hostile nations (or their ships) gathering photographic and electronic intelligence. Their crews would rather they are not referred to as ‘spy planes’ ...

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The gathering of aerial intelligence by a snooping aircraft during wartime is a perilous mission. The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft ...