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July 4th 1989 Colonel Nikolai Skuridin departed Bagicz airbase located near Kolobrzeg Poland on a MiG-23M, an aircraft simply known to the West as "The Flogger" a nuclear capable variable-geometry single engine Soviet 3rd generation Fighter. During take off...
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June 26th 1981; The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle APC is first utilized in a secret extraction operation inside Czechoslovakian borders. The crisis began to unfold when several American military personnel inadvertently crossed through the Czech border, and in a desperate...
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Bruce W. Carr was born on January 28th, 1924, in Union Springs, New York. Bruce got an early start in his flight training at the young age of 15, then a few years later, he enlisted into the United States...
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. On Monday April 8th 1968; BOAC Flight 712 (callsign Speedbird 712) a Boeing 707-465 was scheduled to depart from Heathrow's Terminal 3 at 15:15 GMT (16:15 BST) for the Whiskey Echo long-haul to Sydney, Australia, via Zurich, Tel Aviv,...
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Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr. was born on March 6th, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the only child of Leroy Gordon Cooper Sr. and his wife Hattie. Cooper’s exposure to aviation began early as his parents were owners of a Command-Aire...
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