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Image credit: John Proctor Collection October 21, 2009, Northwest Airlines Flight 188, an Airbus A320-212, registered as N374NW, serial number 1646 departed San Diego International Airport, California, at 5:01pm CDT on a regularly scheduled flight to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Flight...
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On October 14th, 1947, Chuck Yeager was dropped from the B-29 mothership on his seventh powered flight in the X-1. Yeager fired all four engine chambers in rapid sequence and quickly accelerated towards that ol' demon that lived beyond the...
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On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) had often dreamed of flying, but was unable to become a pilot in the United States Air Force due to his poor eyesight..Larry fashioned his own makeshift...
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On September 17, 1959, test pilot Albert Scott Crossfield completed the first powered flight in the rocket propelled X-15. Because of delays in the development of the X-15's mammoth 57,000 pounds force thrust XLR-99 engine, the early flights were completed...
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August 31st, 1986; at 11:46 AM, Aero Mexico Flight 498 began its initial descent into Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members aboard.At 11:52 AM, N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer collided with the left horizontal stabilizer of the...
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