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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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Bill Sweetman described how he would use graph paper and a Sinclair Cambridge calculator to try figure out the specifications of Soviet warplanes during the Cold War.
By Richard J. Terry [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The World’s only flying OV-1B has been donated to the U.S. Military Air Power Museum in Jacksonville, Florida. The aircraft, #59-2631, was previously owned by the Georgia Army National Guard Aviation Museum.
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Photo: Mohawk Associaton
A former U.S. Air Force airman has come forward with new revelations on how eight launch control centers in Okinawa were given orders to launch their nuclear-armed MGM-13 cruise missiles on Oct. 28, 1962.
By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Continue reading “USAF crews in Okinawa nearly launched nuclear cruise missiles during Cuban Missile Crisis”