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July 22nd 1966; was supposed to be just another day for Walter "Taffy” Holden at his base in Lyneham, an RAF station located a few miles northeast of Chippenham. Taffy, an engineer in command of No.33 Maintenance Unit of the...
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On the morning of July 6th, 2013; Asiana Flight 214, a Boeing 777-200ER collided with a rocky seawall at San Francisco Airport, just short of its intended runway. During a live news broadcast, KTVU Channel 2 serving San Francisco, Oakland,...
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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (Born February 21st 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force fighter ace during the Second World War whom was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one...
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August 1st, 1955; Article 341, also known as the Dragon Lady first took flight...and it wasn't on purpose!As with CIA involvement, , each U-2 had an "article number" assigned, and each U-2 would be referred to with its article number...
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July 21st, 1961, Virgil "Gus" Grissom launched away from Cape Kennedy on the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, more famously known as Liberty Bell 7.The successful sub-orbital flight lasted 15 minutes and 37 seconds, proudly making Grissom the second...
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