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In the early hours of the 30th of March 2020, the 5 star luxury cruise ship RCGS Resolute was drifting with one engine idling and one engine undergoing maintenance in international waters, approximately 60 nautical miles off Venezuela's northern coast....
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. On September 5th, 1986, a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Empress of the Seas, operated by Pan American Airways, landed at Karachi airport for an early morning scheduled stopover. Pan Am Flight 73 was carrying 394 passengers, 9 infants, an...
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"Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan...
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When the SR-71 was retired in 1990, one Blackbird in particular, #972, was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, to be placed on perminant exhibit at what is now the Smithsonian Institution's...
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. In the late 70’s Hollywood producer Peter Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, had a very promising science fiction script, but was hampered with a limited budget. The plot was an interesting one, a US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier gets...
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