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Perhaps the most understated transmissions ever made or received in the history of flight communications...CapCom replied to the crew of Apollo 13, "Roger, we copy you venting." The Apollo 13 mission was commanded by James A. Lovell with John L....
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An F-16 was credited with saving a critically ill patient’s life in northern Norway, after the Falcon jet was used to rush specialized medical equipment halfway across the country in an improvised and most effective supersonic delivery platformA man taken...
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Speedbird 002, G-BSST (002) first flew on 9 April 1969 from Filton to RAF Fairford. While commercial jets took eight hours to fly from New York to Paris, the average supersonic flight time on the transatlantic routes was just under...
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April 3rd, 1962 Lieutenant Commander John Young jumped into a super clean F4H-1 Phantom II, and zoomed to an altitude of 82,000 feet in 230.44 seconds, establishing a world time-to-climb record. Not to be outdone, two days later, Neil Armstrong...
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Capt Kenneth Spinning of the US 15th Air Force adopted a small pup in Northern Africa. "Skippy" as he came to be known, followed his master everywhere he went. Skippy was even fitted with his own custom made O2 mask,...
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