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Image: TVR Photography - Tyson Rininger Richard Stephen Ritchie was born June 25, 1942, in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was a star quarterback for Reidsville High School and graduated in 1960. In 1964, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science...
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Capt Chris H. Rose 113th FW, DC Air National Guard demonstrated extraordinary airmanship on June 27th, 1996, when as part of a flight of four, his F-16C suffered a flameout at 13,000 feet. With his wingmen guiding him through the...
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On June 24, 1982, British Airways Flight 009 — Speedbird 9 — lost all four engines after flying through an invisible ash plume from Mount Galunggung over the Indian Ocean. The Boeing 747 became a 300-ton glider in the dark, descending toward the sea. Through extraordinary airmanship, Captain Eric Moody and his crew restarted the engines and landed safely in Jakarta. All 262 people on board walked away without a scratch.
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Pictured: A USAF C-123 Provider spraying Agent Orange at low altitude At the height of the Vietnam War, conventional U.S. military strategies were proving increasingly ineffective against the North Vietnamese Army’s elusive and adaptive logistics. The infamous Ho Chi Minh...
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During Concorde flight testing, British test pilot Brian Walpole and French test pilot Jean Franchi performed a complete barrel roll in the world’s most iconic supersonic airliner — one of the most extraordinary feats in aviation history.
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