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July 7th, 1946; The first prototype XF-11, piloted by Howard Hughes, crashed while on its maiden flight from the Hughes Aircraft Co. factory airfield at Culver City, California.Hughes did not follow the agreed testing program and communications protocol and remained...
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(Photoshopped image depicting Yeagers pass) . As the story goes, in 1948, Chuck Yeager was visiting his parents in a nearby town in West Virginia and had just departed the Charleston airport that now bears his name. International Yeager Airport...
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Image: TVR Photography - Tyson Rininger Richard Stephen Ritchie was born June 25, 1942, in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was a star quarterback for Reidsville High School and graduated in 1960. In 1964, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science...
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Capt Chris H. Rose 113th FW, DC Air National Guard demonstrated extraordinary airmanship on June 27th, 1996, when as part of a flight of four, his F-16C suffered a flameout at 13,000 feet. With his wingmen guiding him through the...
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British Airways Flight 009. Known to air traffic controllers as "Speedbird 9," was on a routine long-haul from London Heathrow to Auckland, New Zealand, with scheduled stops in Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne. But on the night of 24...
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