Indian wants to buy 3 C-17s, Boeing has only one left

The Indian Air Force has managed to clear legislative red tape to acquire another three Boeing C-17 transports. However, Boeing has only one aircraft left that is without a customer.

IAF-C-17 touchdown
By U.S. Air Force by Jet Fabara [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Japanese man’s 70 years quest to locate family members of B-29 crew

A B-29 bomber was shot down over Tokyo on Apr. 2, 1945. None of the eleven crew members on board survived, a Japanese farmer and his son gathered the remains of the crew and buried them in their own ancestral cemetery.

B-29 in flight
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