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We have received news that former Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh passed away in February this year. Wang was famous for defecting to China by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
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The KC-46A has gotten its first Interim Capability Release (ICR) mission set, the approval to use its Centerline Drogue System.
Photo by Lt. Zach Fisher, U.S. Navy
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The U.S. Air Force will send 10 F-15Es that are assigned to the 389th Fighter Squadron at Mountain Home Air Force Base for Operation Pacific Iron 2021.
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U.S. Department of Defense Current Photos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Lockheed Martin X-56B was destroyed on Jul. 10 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards.
Kenneth E. Ulbrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons