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The National Interest on MSN6d
Black Cats: Taiwan’s Cold War U-2 Spy Pilots Risked Life and Limb
U-2 pilots conducted a total of 102 overflights of the People’s Republic of China from 1962 to 1968. The U-2 “Dragon Lady” ...
Declassified Cold War-era CIA files detail Soviet clash with aliens who witnesses say turned soldiers to stone
A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...
The Aviationist on MSN21h
An Aircraft so Bad it Made People Literally Sick: The Republic XF-84H “Thunderscreech”
The XF-84H was an ambitious project to reverse-engineer a jet-powered F-84 into a prop-driven aircraft capable of achieving ...
Found And Explained on MSN5d
A-37 Dragonfly: The Cessna That Became a Cold War Battlefield Icon
The A-37 Dragonfly was never meant to be a warplane. Originally a jet trainer, it was adapted in haste to support the U.S.
Business Insider3d
US military planes flew a Patriot air defense battalion out of the Pacific to the Middle East. It took over 70 flights, a commander says.
US military planes flew an entire Patriot battalion from the Pacific region to the Middle East. The head of US Indo-Pacific Command said Thursday that this took 73 C-17 flights to do. The ...
Newsweek3d
New U.S. Aircraft Carrier Deployed Near Iran as War Threat Grows
Aircraft Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) with its air wing consisting of F-35C Lightning IIs works alongside the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
The New York Times4d
Inside Nuggets’ ‘cold war’ that led to firing both Michael Malone, Calvin Booth
And in the end, to preserve the 30-year-old Jokić’s precious prime that was at the forefront of the decision, there would be no winner in this Nuggets “cold war,” as team sources described it.
The Taipei Times5d
EVA Air places order for nine more Airbus planes
EVA Airways Corp (長榮航空) has placed a firm order to purchase nine planes from Airbus SE, including six long-range A350-1000s and three single-aisle A321neo aircraft. The order would bring EVA Airways’ ...
Newsweek4d
Satellite Images Show US Aircraft Carrier at War With Iran-backed Houthis
Amira El-Fekki is a Newsweek reporter based in Dubai. Her focus is reporting on politics and society in the Middle East. She has in depth knowledge of Arab communities and has covered human rights ...
Yahoo Style Canada4d
The U.S.-China trade war is getting ugly — how Canadian shoppers can avoid the worst of it
Of all the nations impacted by Trump's escalating trade war, no country faces a larger levy than China. The Trump administration announced steep 125 per cent tariffs on Chinese products on April 9, ...
The Straits Times2d
Planes collide on taxiway at US airport where a Jan 29 mid-air collision killed 67 people
WASHINGTON - An American Airlines plane carrying at least three members of Congress at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was struck on the taxiway by the wingtip of another American ...
People3d
Plane Carrying U.S. Congress Members Clipped by Another Flight at Reagan Airport as Reps Live Tweet from Cabin
DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Two planes have reportedly made contact on the tarmac at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. At least five members of congress, Rep. Nick LaLota ...