Former Pilot Recalls The Difficulties Flying U-2 Spy Plane

SUTTER COUNTY (CBS13) – A former U-2 pilot who flew the aircraft in the 1950s and 60s is speaking out about the crash of a U-2 training aircraft in the Sutter Buttes Tuesday morning.
Retired Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Tony Bevacqua was asked to be part of the secret spy program and made his first flight over Area 51 in Nevada in 1957.
Bevacqua says the plane that went down this morning was a lot different in some ways than the early U2’s.
There were no trainers back then and he says hi