The Cold War hotted up sixty years ago when a Lockheed U-2 spy plane, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", was shot down by a surface-to-air missile during a mission over the Soviet Union. In his lecture, historian Chris Pocock tells us the fascinating background history behind the series of missions that led to one of the USA’s most embarrassing post-war incidents.

Chris Pocock addressed a joint meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Historical & Air Power Groups on 15 April 2010 and the podcast was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS.