Notable Appearances in Media
In the television series Call to Glory (ABC, 1984–1985), the U-2 was the "main ride" of U.S. Air Force Colonel Raynor Sarnac from the October 1962 Cuba Crisis to 1979. The U-2 also appears prominently in the movie Thirteen Days (2000). On the BBC program James May at the Edge of Space (2009), James May of Top Gear fame, goes on a flight in a U-2.
In the television series Quantum Leap during episodes, "Honeymoon Express" and "Lee Harvey Oswald", the aircraft is featured in the storylines.
The U-2 is mentioned in the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire". The image of a Lockheed U-2 was used on the cover of the controversial 1991 EP released by the band Negativland and titled U2.
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