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Although a lot of people have seen the northern lights, Air Force Lt. Col. Ross Franquemont had a view that was unique, reports CBS News. Fraquemont's view was up close from a U-2 he was piloting last month over Canada. Fortunately, he's also an amateur photographer who, as with any good ...

A TRIP to see the Northern Lights costs an arms and a leg - but this air force pilot got the best view and was paid to watch them. Ross Franquemont couldn't believe his luck as he captured a series of stunning photographs while flying right through the aurora. Ross Franquemont couldn't believe his luck as ...

IT'S not easy to take a good photo when you're flying a U-2 spy plane at about 500mph. But US air force pilot Ross Franquemont managed to grab a stunning selfie that shows the majestic northern lights as you've never seen them before. The image shows him flying straight through the aurora borealis, ...

Many photographers are enchanted by the colorful glow of the Northern Lights, but no one has ever photographed them quite like Ross Franquemont. Based out of the Beale Air Force Base in California, Franquemont is a U-2 pilot and instructor with a passion for photography. On a recent overseas mission ...

The Air Force is studying whether Lockheed Martin's U-2 can fly until 2100, about five decades longer than its current expected service life, according to Susan Thornton, director for information dominance programs in the service's acquisition branch. "The U-2s are pretty much rebuilt every seven years," ...

The U-2 is one of the Air Force's oldest aircraft. But as C4ISRNET recently reported, Beale Air Force Base's 99th Reconnaissance Squadron's pilots, maintainers and mission planners have taken procurement into their own hands, and regularly chat with Silicon Valley companies about new commercial ...

“My strategy is to put as much as we can within the [US military's next six-year budget plan], because we've got room to grow,” Kyle Franklin, Lockheed Martin's U-2 program manager, told FlightGlobal during the visit. This is a significantly different attitude than the company might have had even last year.

In a hangar known as Site 2, opposite the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on the Palmdale airport runway in California, the 60-year-old ritual of programmed depot maintenance for each of the 27 U-2S "Dragon Lady" aircraft remaining in service continues, a full decade after the US Air Force launched a ...

Want to see what the Northern Lights look like up close? Ross Franquemont can show you. A U-2 spy plane pilot by day and a photographer by night, Franquemont recently had the privilege of photographing the Aurora Borealis from his cockpit at 70,000 feet. Franquemont is a pilot and instructor based out ...

The study marks a dramatic reversal of fortune for the U-2, which the Air Force once intended to begin retiring in fiscal year 2019. The service scrapped those retirement plans after lawmakers objected, citing strong demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets. The U-2 collects several ...

The secretive U-2 program flew its first mission in August 1955 as a high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, according to an Air Force fact sheet. The spy plane – stationed at Beale Air Force Base in California – routinely flies at 70,000 feet where the pilot must wear a pressure suit ...

Do you remember the stunning photographs from U-2 Dragon Lady pilot and friend Ross Franquemont we published a few days ago? Few days after we published those incredible shots, Ross deployed for an overseas mission. Although we don't know anything about the purpose of the mission, we know ...

Ross Franquemont is a U-2 pilot and instructor at the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, based at Beale Air Force Base, California. Fortunately for the rest of the world, he is also a great photographer. In fact, the incredible images you can find in this post were taken by Ross during missions flown at high ...

This is the panorama you get from the cockpit of a legendary U-2 Dragon Lady aircraft. Ross Franquemont is a U-2 pilot and instructor at the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, based at Beale Air Force Base, California. Fortunately for the rest of the world, he is also a great photographer. In fact, the incredible ...

"I had to understand more about the Cold War to understand more about the U-2 incident to understand more about my father," he said. ... important to remember that chapter in history, and a talk he gave one day to a high school class drove home that point when he started discussing his father's U-2 plane.

A crowd of Aurora Navy League members and guests packed the meeting room at Grandma's Table in Montgomery on March 20 to hear retired Air Force Lt. Col. Kent Catich talk about his 15 years of flying the U-2 spy plane. Catich is an Aurora native and son of Sharon and Kent Catich, now of North ...