When doing some research about this U-2, I was astonished to find I'd seen the very same aircraft just two days before as it is the one suspended in the American Air Museum at Duxford. Now painted in the standard black, the white colours here can be attributed to the fact that the 9th SRW were flying it as a crew trainer. Note the double cockpit (which has now been modified back to single to represent the standard spyplane)

Leaving in spectacular style after static display at the 1982 SBAC show. Since rebuilt as a two-seat TU-2S trainer

Taken from a runway chase vehicle - quite an experience! This 9th SRW Dragon Lady crashed in the Sea of Japan off Korea on 15.1.92

The legendary U-2, preserved at the IWM Duxford's American Air Museum.

Two of five 349th SRS/100th SRW U-2s on the Airborne Location Strike System/Pave Strike deployment to Wethersfield in May and June 1975. 56-6700 crashed near Bonn in Germany just days after this shot, on 29.5.75. The official press realease stated that they were involved in a "high altitude sampling program"