Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. Airmen walk towards the aircraft and arrange plywood sheets around it to shield the operation. A dolly loaded with equipment is pushed near the aircraft. The equipment is uncovered and loaded in the aircraft. An officer supervises the loading. The equipment is hoisted into the Q-bay ( equipment bay ) of the aircraft.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. Airmen work on equipment beneath the aircraft. The equipment is hoisted into the Q-bay ( equipment bay ) of the aircraft. An officer supervises the loading operations. An airman in the cockpit. A close view of the equipment.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. Airmen and an officer beneath the aircraft. They push a dolly loaded with Q -bay ( equipment bay) hatch beneath the aircraft. The Q-bay hatch is held in place and tightened. A bespectacled airman in the cockpit. He looks out of the canopy. He checks equipment in the cockpit.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. A bespectacled airman checks equipment in the cockpit. An officer and airmen push away a dolly from beneath the aircraft. An airman rotates the handle of an equipment. Airmen help a pilot in donning gloves and helmet.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Technicians remove equipment from the Q-bay ( equipment bay) of a Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. The equipment is loaded on a dolly and is covered with a sheet. The dolly is pushed away.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A car is driven down towards an entrance at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Film boxes are unloaded from the car and are loaded on a trolley by airmen. A captain accompanies the trolley being pushed towards a photo laboratory. The captain rings a bell for admittance to the laboratory. A board on the door of the laboratory proclaims it to be a restricted area. The door is opened and the trolley is pushed into the laboratory.
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