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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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October 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special package to the North Vietnamese in...
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Bailing out at 18,000 feet with no parachute...24 March 1944, 21-year-old Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (1922–1987) was a rear gunner in Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster. Alkemade was one of seven crew members in Avro Lancaster B Mk. II,...
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