If you are referring to the U2 pilot that was shot down over the USSR in 1960, that would have been Frances Gary Powers.
Gary Powers, the US pilot, was arrested and tried by the Russians. However, the US got him back but PROBABLY paid a lot of money for his release.
The US claimed that the plane was a weather research aircraft which had strayed into SU airspace, denying that it was a spy plane.
I believe it was called the "blackbird" because it was painted a metallic black.
no.... An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960
they went down!
If you are referring to the U2 pilot that was shot down over the USSR in 1960, that would have been Frances Gary Powers.
Show down the Soviet Union??? Or shot down IN the Soviet Union? Are you asking about Gary Francis Powers?
idk what U2 your referring to but im going to gues its the U2 incident durring the cold war. The U2 was a spy plane piloted by Frances Gary Powers that went down over Soviet Russia.
Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot his u-2 spyplane was shot down while over the USSR causing the 1960 U2 incident
Francis Gary Powers
Gary Powers was the pilot who was shot down.
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
The Lockheed U-2 flown by Gary Powers .
Francis Gary Powers was the pilot of the Lockheed U2 spy plane that was shot down by the former USSR with a surface to air missile (SAM) in 1960. After lengthy negotiations, a prisoner exchange was made returning Powers to the United States. [JMH]
four hours after Powers entered Soviet airspace, a Soviet pilot shot down his plane, and Powers was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory. The Soviets sentenced Powers to ten years in prison.