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On September 17, 1959, test pilot Albert Scott Crossfield completed the first powered flight in the rocket propelled X-15. Because of delays in the development of the X-15's mammoth 57,000 pounds force thrust XLR-99 engine, the early flights were completed...
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August 31st, 1986; at 11:46 AM, Aero Mexico Flight 498 began its initial descent into Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members aboard.At 11:52 AM, N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Archer collided with the left horizontal stabilizer of the...
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On Monday, June 28, 1965, Clipper Friendship, a Boeing 707-321B operated as Pan American Airlines Flight 843 departed from San Francisco International Airport carrying 143 passengers and 10 crew members on a scheduled flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii....
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As a young ROTC cadet in 1948, Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. got to meet test pilot Chuck Yeager and even sat in the cockpit of the Bell X-1. This inspired the young cadet to reach for higher... July 26, 1958,...
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July 15th, 1945, "The Gadget" was detonated. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as a result of the Manhattan Project. The new test...
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