{"id":472,"date":"2025-08-01T19:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/u-2-dragon-lady-breaks-altitude-and-endurance-records-during-70th-anniversary-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:18:54","slug":"u-2-dragon-lady-breaks-altitude-and-endurance-records-during-70th-anniversary-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/u-2-dragon-lady-breaks-altitude-and-endurance-records-during-70th-anniversary-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"U-2 Dragon Lady Breaks Altitude and Endurance Records During 70th Anniversary Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/u270th_1-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"U-2 70th Anniversary Record Breaking Flight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flying from Beale AFB, a Lockheed U-2 aircraft, using the specially chosen callsign DRAGON 70, was heard communicating with ATC about a plan to set an endurance and altitude record for the \u2018category and class\u2019 of aircraft. Aviation enthusiasts were able to record the pilot of DRAGON 70 communicating with the Atlanta Air Route Traffic [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/u2-70th-anniversary-flight\/\">U-2 Dragon Lady Breaks Altitude and Endurance Records During 70th Anniversary Flight<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying from Beale AFB, a Lockheed U-2 aircraft, using the specially chosen callsign DRAGON 70, was heard communicating with ATC about a plan to set an endurance and altitude record for the \u2018category and class\u2019 of aircraft. Aviation enthusiasts were able to record the pilot of DRAGON 70 communicating with the Atlanta Air Route Traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}