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REAL TO REPLICA RED SERIES 5
The Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady
by Ryan Dorling

The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed the ‘Dragon Lady’, is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet), all-weather intelligence gathering. In late 1954 the call came for a reconnaissance aircraft that could over-fly denied territory to gather vital intelligence, but at a height that was deemed safe. In 1955 the legendary designer Clarence L 'Kelly’ Johnson and his team at Lockheed Martin’s ‘Skunk Works’ came up with an aircraft that could do just that. As the ‘Real to Replica’ title suggests there is a section on how to model the U-2 in popular scales, making this book an ideal source for both the enthusiast and scale modeller alike.

132 PAGES
RRP: 27.99