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On December 10th, 1963, test pilot, Charles Elwood Yeager climbed into a modified Lockheed NF-104A equipped with a supplementary rocket engine and a reaction control system. The purpose for test flight was to continue the testing of RCS to compensate...
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. Gregory Pappy Boyington was born on December 4th, 1912. Boyington was initially a US Marine Corps aviator with the Pacific fleet before being recruited by the legendary "Flying Tigers" (1st American Volunteer Group) in the Republic of China Air...
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In case you ever wondered what the worlds fastest boat was…well, on October 8th, 1978, the jet powered watercraft named "Spirit of Australia" reached 317.596 mph on the Tumut River. This aquatic feat was made possible by adding a...
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Tomorrow morning they'll lay the remains of Glenn Rojohn to rest in the Peace Lutheran Cemetery in the little town of Greenock, Pa., just southeast of Pittsburgh. He was 81, and had been in the air conditioning and plumbing business...
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On October 16, 1956, Pan Am Flight 6, an around-the-world commercial passenger flight (N90943) took off from Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, at 8:26pm HST on the flight's concluding leg to San Francisco. After passing the point of no return, the...
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