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Secret NOFORN
Chapter 5
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in. The staging base in this case was Ta Khli, Thailand. These flights did not go unnoticed; on 13 September 1959, Hong Kong’s *China Post* published a story headlined “U-2 of USAF Said Reconnoitering Red China at Unreachable Altitude.”²⁷
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U-2Cs for Detachment C
Late in 1958, Lockheed began refitting the Agency’s 13 remaining U-2s with the more powerful Pratt & Whitney J75/P-13 jet engine. The first of these U-2Cs arrived at Detachment C in the summer of 1959. During a test flight of this aircraft (article 360) on 24 September 1959, the pilot decided to set a new altitude record.
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²⁷ Ibid., chap. 18, pp. 6-7, 12; chap. 15, p. 29 (TS Codeword).
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