Sierra Hotel Blog
18 NOV 1968, An F-4D #66-0249 from the 433rd TFS, Ubon RTAB, was badly struck by 37mm Anti-Aircraft fire. The damage rendered the stricken Phantom uncontrollable, and pilot Major Ben "Ray" Battle ordered his WSO 1Lt Robert "Kenny" Boone to...
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Many of you are aware of the amazing writings of Major Brian Shul, Sled Driver. but how many of you are familiar with what he faced before being selected as a Blackbird pilot?During the Vietnam War, Brian Shul was flying...
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April 12, 1961 - Poyekhali! (Let's Go!) was heard over the radio as Vostok 1 rocketed away from Baikonur Cosmodrome with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, making him the first human to depart our atmosphere and enter mankind's final frontier....
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Yom HaShoah (יום השואה)—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 — also known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yom HaShoah is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the...
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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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