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On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300 (Airbus A300B4-203), registration F-BVGG (c/n 019), departed from Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying 246 passengers and a crew of 12. According to their planned route, Flt 139 then proceeded to...
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During the dead of winter, on March 21st, 1944; in Miles City, Montana; local residents woke to their quaint little town being overrun and submerged by the rising frozen waters of the Yellowstone River. Ice jams were building quickly, raising...
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Designed in the late 1950s, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie prototype of the planned B-70 nuclear-armed, deep-penetration Strategic Bomber for the United States Air Force and Strategic Air Command. The $750,000,000 six-engined Valkyrie could cruise for thousands of miles at Mach 3+ while flying at 70,000...
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Watching the waterbombers courageously fight the fires ravaging California...one has to wonder what kind of pilots choose to wage war against the infernos. Joe "Hoser" "In the smoke 'till I croak" Satrapa was one such man. Joe was a living legend...
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On Friday the 9th of February 1945; AB910 Mk Vb Spitfire, with Flight Lt. Neill Cox at the controls, was preparing to depart on a cold overcast day at RAF Hibaldstow, a satellite airfield to RAF Kirton-in Lindsey Lincolnshire. High winds that accompanied the marginal weather...
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