Aviation News
The Air Mobility Command Museum will play host to C-47 “That’s All Brother” from May 3-4. The museum at Dover Air Force Base will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day invasion on both days.
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The George and Barbara Bush Foundation has approached the U.S. Air Force to request that a VC-25A be loaned out as a permanent exhibit from 2025.
Oren Rozen [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole, the last survivor of the “Doolittle Raid,” died Apr. 9, in San Antonio. Nine days before the 77th anniversary of the famous air raid.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.
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MBDA has conducted the first firing of the Brimstone 3 missile in Sweden last month.
In 1964, a KH-4A Corona satellite spotted a site in Tallinn, Soviet Estonia under construction. The discovery lead the Americans to believe that the Soviets are setting up an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at the site.
George Chernilevsky [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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