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March 20th, 1991 – Cuban Air Force pilot Major Orestes Lorenzo Perez directs his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23BN Northbound, and touches down unannounced on the runways at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. Major Lorenzo, was astounded to have been able to...
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We have an actual real-world Sierra Hotel Hollywood exclusive story!! and we are proud to say it is not the usual negative Hollywood gossip and drivel…but in fact an absolutely 100% true story recently shared with us by an aerial...
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Those of us old enough to remember smoking sections on airliners will also recall the aeronautical cheese-fest, 80s action flick called "Iron Eagle". The story of a young hot dog Cessna driver, and leader of the famed “Eagles Flying Club”...
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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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