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Those of us who are old enough to remember smoking sections on airliners,  will also remember the aeronautical cheesefest, 80s action flic called "Iron Eagle".  The story of a young hot dog Cessna driver, and leader of the famed “Eagles...
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. James Howell Howard was born on April 8th, 1913, in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, where his American father worked as a doctor. Initially intending to follow in his father's footsteps into medicine, Howard, decided that the life of a Naval Aviator was more appealing than...
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Russell David Johnson joined the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He flew 44 combat missions as a bombardier in B-25 bombers. While flying as a navigator in a B-25...
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October 14th 1978; a Sikorsky HH-52A Coast Guard helicopter #62-128 Register 1445 was patrolling South West of the Hawaiian islands when the crew spotted smoke of an undetermined origin on the horizon at approximately 230 degrees relative to their position....
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