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Picture on page 7: Scheme of the flight route of the North American exploration plane "Lockheed U-2" over the territory of the Soviet Union. On the left of the scheme the military American- Turkish aviation base of Adana (Turkey) is marked from which F. H. POWERS, according to his statements, flew on April 27, 1960, toward the airport of Peshawar (Pakistan, lower part of the scheme). Departing from her at dawn on May 1 and flying illegally over the territory of Afghanistan, the "Lockheed U-2" invaded the Soviet aerial space in the region of Stalinabad (capital of the Turkmen SSR, lower part of the scheme). Then the plane followed its route over Soviet territory through the regions located in the east of Tashkent (capital of the Uzbek SSR) Kzil-Orda (regional center of the Kazakh SSR), Chelyabinsk (industrial center south of the Ural Mountains) and approached Sverdlovsk (the most important industrial center in the central part of the Ural Mountains), Here, more than 2,000 kilometers from the point where J¢ crossed the frontier of the USSR, the pirate was demolished by a Soviet rocket (see center of scheme), Picture on page 8: Section of the flight map which F. H, POWERS carried, According to the marked route, he was to fly over the territory of the USSR, from Stalinabad to Murmansk and then land at the airport of Buda (in northern Norway). Picture on page 9: Of the pirate plane many things remain which are documentary evidence and definitely prove the character of eSpionage and exploration of the plane. This photograph shows the rear end of the demolished plane which normally shows the sign of the nationality. However, on the "Lockheed U-2" brought down in the region of Sverdlovsk, no emblem of any kind could be found én the rudder or stabilizers or on any pther part of the plane. Picture on page 10: Ordinarily, in the "Lockheed U-2" plane turboreactory motors, model J-57 (PRATT and WHITNEY Company) are installed with a maximum traction power of 5, 000 kilograms, ~The plane demolished in the Ural Mountains carried a more powerful motor (model J-75-R-13, with a maximum traction power of 8,000 = ~~ kilograms which permitted the pilot to reach great altitudes up to . 20, 000 meters, In the picture: the motor of the plane which was | shot down.