{"id":469,"date":"2025-08-02T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/u-s-air-force-confirms-tu-2s-dragon-lady-broke-endurance-records\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:48:26","slug":"u-s-air-force-confirms-tu-2s-dragon-lady-broke-endurance-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/u-s-air-force-confirms-tu-2s-dragon-lady-broke-endurance-records\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force Confirms TU-2S Dragon Lady Broke Endurance Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9233631-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"TU-2S New Endurance Records\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The historic flight, which was 11 years in the making, saw the TU-2 flying longer than 14 hours and traveling over 6,000 NM across all 48 contiguous states of the U.S. On Aug. 1, 2025, we reported about a Lockheed U-2 aircraft which was heard communicating to air traffic control about the intention to break [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/08\/02\/tu-2s-dragon-lady-broke-endurance-records\/\">U.S. Air Force Confirms TU-2S Dragon Lady Broke Endurance Records<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic flight, which was 11 years in the making, saw the TU-2 flying longer than 14 hours and traveling over 6,000 NM across all 48 contiguous states of the U.S. On Aug. 1, 2025, we reported about a Lockheed U-2 aircraft which was heard communicating to air traffic control about the intention to break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}