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"Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan...
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When the SR-71 was retired in 1990, one Blackbird in particular, #972, was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, to be placed on permanent exhibit at what is now the Smithsonian Institution's...
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. In the late 70’s, Hollywood producer Peter Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, had a very promising science fiction script but was hampered by a limited budget. The plot was an interesting one, a US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier gets...
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February 3rd, 1959 - The Day the Music Died (Dubbed so by Don McLean's song "American Pie.”) Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and the pilot Roger Peterson were all killed after departing into marginal weather...
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Feb. 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere as a result of damage incurred to a reinforced carbon-carbon leading edge wing panel that had resulted from a piece of insulation foam breaking away from the...
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