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Buddy Brown, the U-2 pilot who wore fake bad teeth to joke about the ozone level effect
Buddy was stationed in Alaska as a U-2 pilot, where he befriended a dentist, Dr. McCallum. McCallum made false teeth that were really decayed-looking...
The A-12 that burnt to a crisp at 800°F because it approached Mach 3.3
Development of the Oxcart Program
The CIA started development of the highly classified A-12 Oxcart in the late 1950s as a successor to the vulnerable...
The Soviet submarine that almost fired a nuclear torpedo at a US Navy ship during the Cuban Missile Crisis
‘Now let me say something about that Cuban Missile Crisis. This is probably as close as this nation has ever come to being in...
A Taiwanese U-2 pilot flamed out at 70,000 feet and made a rough night landing at a remote Colorado airport
Major Hsi-Chon Hua, a U-2 pilot belonging to Taiwan’s Nationalist Chinese Air Force (NCAF), flamed out at 70,000 feet and glided to a rough...
The U-2 decompression sickness cases increased after the end of the Cold War
The U-2 cruises at 70,000 feet, or at least twice the height of a typical passenger jet. The sky is dark during the day,...