Lockheed U-2 | Why Is It Still Flying & Still Spying 65 Years On?

Thank you Audible for sponsoring this video! Visit http://audible.com/curiousdroid or text curiousdroid to 500-500 (US only) to start your free 30 day trial. The Lockheed U-2 might well have been created in the 1950s for the coldwar but it's still going 65 years on and has seen off the Lockheed SR-71 and spy satellites. This is the story so far of the spy plane that still flying and still spying 65 years on. This video is sponsored by Audible : http://audible.com/curiousdroid Written, Researched and Presented by Paul Shillito Images and Footage : Lockheed, USAF, NASA, US DoD, RAF, H A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom ChasingSol Collin Copfer Daniele Noacco Etienne Dechamps Florian Müller George Bishop II Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure inunotaisho james t early Janne Kurikka Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Kedar Deshpande Ken Schwarz László Antal Lawrence Brennan Lorne Diebel MajorFluffy Pyloric SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Vincent Music from the Youtube Library Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake Interloper by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100401 Artist: http://incompetech.com/