U-2 R Senior Span Airplane

The strategic reconnaissance aircraft U-2, which was designed during the fifties for surveillance and spy missions against the Soviet block countries, has been in service until to-day because of its exceptional features and also because there is no real replacement available. During the 40 years of service, many modifications have been made creating more than 10 variants among which the "Senior Span" has the most advanced satellite antenna system for real time communications.

This model by Italeri is very nicely detailed. In scale 1:48.