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Mike Mangold, who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice in 2005 and 2007 was killed in a L-39 accident on Dec. 6.
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The annual Blackened Canteen ceremony took place on Dec. 6 at the USS Arizona Memorial, Hawaii.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal
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Archaeologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Hawaii archaeologists were recently able to conduct a detailed archaeological survey of a U.S. Navy PBY-5 Catalina airplane sunk during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Photo Credit: UH Marine Option Program
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The Argentine Air Force retired all its remaining Mirage fighters at VI Air Brigade in Tandil on Nov. 29. Active and retired airmen gathered to bid the jets a final farewell.
A DC-3 that was restored in the U.K. will soon depart for India where it will join the Indian Air Force vintage squadron. The service will now have to decide whether it will dismantle the aircraft and ferry it home or to make the long distance trip home.
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