among the best preserved items at the museum is this jet engine from an american U-2 spy plane. the U-2 was shot down over cuba on october 27, 1962 by a surface-to-air missile similar to the one in the photo. the pilot, major rudolf anderson jr. of greenville, s.c., was killed.
film shot by anderson and other U-2 pilots revealed the presence of soviet nuclear missiles in cuba, triggering the cuban missile crisis.
for more, see this week's geiger's counter in print and online later today at barnesville.com
4 comments:
What a hot guard!!
She is that!
she looks pissed. maybe the batteries in that rocket just died.
She might be an eight second ride. Yahoo!
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