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In 2001, 13-year-old Boy Scout Cody Clawson became separated from his troop in Yellowstone National Park and spent a cold night alone in a cave. At daybreak he used his belt buckle as a signal mirror to flag down a low-flying helicopter. The pilot who spotted him and flew the rescue was Harrison Ford — Jackson Hole resident, licensed fixed-wing and rotary-wing pilot, and veteran SAR volunteer.
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Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner grew up in San Diego, California, with a keen interest in aircraft and flying. She worked odd jobs and washed aircraft to earn money for flying lessons and flight time. She graduated from University in 1972...
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Margaret Heafield Hamilton led development of the on-board flight software for the Apollo space program at MIT. Three minutes before Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon, her software’s priority-based asynchronous executive averted a mission abort by managing a computer overload caused by a faulty radar input. Margaret Hamilton saved Apollo 11.
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"The Night Witches" or as the Nazi's called them...."Nachthexen" These were the women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces. The 588th continuously flew harassment...
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February 28th, 1966: A NASA Northrop T-38 Talon crashed at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, killing two Project Gemini astronauts, Elliot See and Charles Bassett. See and Bassett flew in one Northrop T-38A Talon jet trainer, tail number NASA...
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