🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" single-seat single-engine high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
🌀Powerplant: 1x General Electric F118-101 turbofan engine
🗂️ S/N: AF68-336 (68-10366)
🛠️ C/N: 058
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
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🐉 This Dragon is about to hoard all that Gold(en Gate)
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" single-seat single-engine high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
🌀Powerplant: 1x 🇺🇸 General Electric F118-101 turbofan engine
🗂️ S/N: AF80-092 (80-1092)
🛠️ C/N: 092
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🎪 Airshow: San Francisco Fleet Week 2025
📍 Location: San Francisco, California, USA
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" single-seat single-engine high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x General Electric F118-101 turbofan engine
🗂️ S/N: AF80-071 (80-1071)
🛠️ C/N: 9-071
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
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🧑‍🚀 You're gonna need a space suit for this one
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" single-seat single-engine high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
🌀Powerplant: 1x General Electric F118-101 turbofan engine
🗂️ S/N: AF68-336 (68-10366)
🛠️ C/N: 058
💡 Fun fact: The panoramic film cameras U-2 used in the past produced 18x18 inch exposures, which is enough area to fit 61 IMAX film frames or around 244 35mm film frames
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
🖼️ Prints available, link in bio 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
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a clean USAF U-2S banks hard left after overflying the 49'r game, Santa Clara, California, September 2023 #u2 #dragonlady #AvGeek #aviationphotography #aviation
#photography #nikon #militaryaviation

👁️ The all-seeing eye in the sky 🐉
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Lockheed U-2S "Dragon Lady" single-seat single-engine high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft @lockheedmartin
🌀Powerplant: 1x General Electric F118-101 turbofan engine @generalelectric
🗂️ S/N: AF80-071 (80-1071)
🛠️ C/N: 9-071
💡 Fun fact: there is a small rear-view mirror mounted outside to check for contrails
🧑‍✈️ Assigned to: 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, California, USA @bealeafb @usairforce
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo @bealeairshow
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA @bealeafb @usairforce
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
🖼️ Prints available, link in bio 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S @fujiifilmx_us
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
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USAF U-2 undergoing depot maintenance at USAF Plant #42 (Palmdale) from several miles out. Shot at 2am the hanger and field lights are brutal. Shot at ISO 10000 1/5 shutter and 600mm July 2018 #dragonlady #U2 #USAF #Plant42 #photography #aircraft #Palmdale #MRO

A Game of Inches: The Suit That Kept a Photographer Alive https://petapixel.com/2024/12/12/a-game-of-inches-the-suit-that-kept-a-photographer-alive/ #blairbunting #u2dragonlady #edgeofspace #dragonlady #photoshoot #Spotlight #editorial #interview #spacesuit #features #spyplane #Space #space #gear #u2

USAF U-2S 80-1073 on final for Palmdale. Clearly post deployment and with a total clean air frame and showing a lot of wear #u2 #dragonlady #plant42 #palmdale #AvGeek #aviationphotography #aviation
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