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James Montgomery Doohan was born on March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The youngest of four children in a Scottish family, James excelled in mathematics and science. Doohan's father, a chemist, pharmacist, and veterinarian, reportedly invented an early...
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June 7th, 1981, the Israeli Defence Forces commenced Operation Opera, with the launch of eight F-16As, each loaded with two unguided Mark-84 2,000-pound delay-action bombs. Simultaneously a flight of six F-15As Eagles were dispatched to provide fighter support for the bomb-laden Falcon...
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The day the "Bent Wing Bastard" was born.... May 29th, 1940, the first flight of the XF4U-1, the prototype of the iconic F4U Corsair was made with Lyman A. Bullard, Jr. at the controls. The maiden flight proceeded normally until...
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Did a Cessna 172 beat the entire Soviet air defence forces, and single-handedly begin the ending of the Cold War? Well, on May 28th,1987, Mathias Rust single-handedly penetrated Soviet defences by landing a Cessna most illegally, and much to the horror...
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On May 24th, 1991, an aeronautical world record was set by a solitary Boeing 747 operated by El AL Airlines, for the highest single-flight passenger load. . The El Al 747, stripped of all seating, managed to load, and fly...
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