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May 28, 1987: Teen Tests Soviet Air Defenses

1987: West German teenager Mathias Rust cracks the Iron Curtain with an incredible unauthorized flight from Helsinki to the heart of Moscow — and lives to tell the tale. The Cold War was still in full...

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March 17, 1953: The Black Box Is Born

1953: After several high-profile crashes of de Havilland Comet airliners go unsolved, Australian researcher David Warren invents a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight. During...

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Nov. 2, 1947: Spruce Goose … Or an Expensive Turkey?

Conceived as a wartime necessity, in the end Howard Hughes' gargantuan cargo plane looks more like an enormous vanity project.

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