Didn't find anything posted about his passing. Highly recommend reading the book "Mig Pilot".
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Aviation ping!..................
2 posted on
06/30/2025 11:00:02 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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3 posted on
06/30/2025 11:01:03 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: where's_the_Outrage?; SaveFerris
“You must learn to think in Russian”
4 posted on
06/30/2025 11:04:46 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
This points out how comical the cries for “due process” are for illegals. Your citizen staatus determines what legal process you are “due”. The process due a non-citizen seeking to visit our country is different from the process due a citizen.
5 posted on
06/30/2025 11:08:19 AM PDT by
cuban leaf
(2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
The people who vote for the Mamdanis of the world should definitely read it.
6 posted on
06/30/2025 11:08:19 AM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: where's_the_Outrage?
A very brave man who did a great service to his new country!
To: where's_the_Outrage?
I remember reading his story when I was a kid.
8 posted on
06/30/2025 11:09:55 AM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Heard it was a real rust bucket.
9 posted on
06/30/2025 11:10:52 AM PDT by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Was this the basis of the 1982 Clint Eastwood movie “Firefox”?
11 posted on
06/30/2025 11:21:48 AM PDT by
RainMan
((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
To: where's_the_Outrage?
He died in a nursing home in a small town in Southern Illinois on Sep. 24.
Surprised the KGB didn’t get to him first?.
R.I.P.
14 posted on
06/30/2025 11:36:33 AM PDT by
Vaduz
To: where's_the_Outrage?
Yes. A great read. I particularly liked the parts where he saw every day life in America. Particularly the passage where they take him to a clothing store in a mall in suburban DC. He marveled at the vast selection of items. And only 2 employees to guard them! And the grocery store with seemingly unlimited choices of food. All marked with contents and a fancy cart to put them in. Also, there was no smell of rotten food. When he saw a lady filling here own gas tank at the corner station he was convinced that this was the US version of the Potemkin Village. It took him a while to realize that this was indeed, an ever day occurrence in the US and everything the leaders in the USSR told him about the West was a lie.
To: where's_the_Outrage?
This man was instrumental in helping end the Cold War.
19 posted on
06/30/2025 11:58:08 AM PDT by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
I know that area of Illinois is quite conservative.
He would have been around people who highly valued him.
Thank you for your service to the world, Viktor.
20 posted on
06/30/2025 12:01:00 PM PDT by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Damn. I read that book back in the 80s. Yikes! Didn’t the the boys take the MIG apart and then send it back to the Russkis in boxes. ROTFL!
21 posted on
06/30/2025 12:11:01 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
On an obscure technical point, you might be interested in checking out the follow-on to the MiG-25, the MiG-31, specifically its rear landing gear. Rather than one wheel on each side, it uses two, with substantial linkage. The rear of each pair is ever so slightly offset from the front, so that it can fill any rut left by the corresponding front tire. Good for grass fields, if needed.
27 posted on
06/30/2025 1:03:21 PM PDT by
JeemBeau
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30 posted on
06/30/2025 3:58:41 PM PDT by
redinIllinois
(Pro-life, accoountant, gun-oktotin' Grandma - multi issue voter )
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31 posted on
06/30/2025 4:32:27 PM PDT by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: where's_the_Outrage?
I briefly met him a million years ago. He was flying through and stopped for fuel. Of course in a T38.
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Hand Salute to that dude!
Great big balls of steel.
38 posted on
07/01/2025 4:58:55 PM PDT by
Delta 21
(None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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