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The Cuban Air Force pilot that defected to the US with his MiG-23. He then borrowed a Cessna 310, flew back to Cuba and brought his family to America.
The Aviation Geek Club ^ | Mar 22 2022 | Dario Leone

Posted on 03/24/2022 7:09:32 PM PDT by Mount Athos

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1 posted on 03/24/2022 7:09:32 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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found story via ace


2 posted on 03/24/2022 7:09:55 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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Now that’s brave.


3 posted on 03/24/2022 7:13:13 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Yet many here in the US call us oppressors and racists all the while people try to escape to freedom here.


4 posted on 03/24/2022 7:16:03 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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5 posted on 03/24/2022 7:19:49 PM PDT by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy Americans has ever had. 🍊)
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To: Mount Athos

That’s a Great Story!
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If we had a Few Patriotic
Types within the DS,,,


6 posted on 03/24/2022 7:25:59 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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viva lorenzo!!


7 posted on 03/24/2022 7:27:44 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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When he finally landed undetected by American radar....

As bad as the MIG that landed at Homestead while Air Force 1 was on the flight line.

8 posted on 03/24/2022 7:28:28 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Lorenzo and his wife are family friends. They are fine people.


9 posted on 03/24/2022 7:35:09 PM PDT by Rockingham
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In 1990, Cuba’s Air Force was the best equipped in Latin America. In all, the modern Cuban Air Force imported approximately 230 fixed-wing aircraft. Although there is no exact figure available, Western analysts estimate that at least 130 with only 25 operational of these planes are still in service spread out among the thirteen military airbases on the island.


10 posted on 03/24/2022 7:36:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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The Putinistas here want him arrested and returned to Cuba.


11 posted on 03/24/2022 7:41:16 PM PDT by nbenyo
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Did he get Sky King’s Songbird?


12 posted on 03/24/2022 7:47:44 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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the guy was a U.S. citizen. one of the first things he did was give us a birth certificate from (i believe) chicago.


13 posted on 03/24/2022 7:48:16 PM PDT by cva41
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Clinton would have arrested him and sent him back to Cuba.


14 posted on 03/24/2022 7:50:16 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting who's brains are for dinner.)
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The Putinistas here want him arrested and returned to Cuba

Like Elian Gonzalez? I didn’t want hm to go back to Cuba.

15 posted on 03/24/2022 7:57:02 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of a USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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"The Putinistas here want him arrested and returned to Cuba."


16 posted on 03/24/2022 7:58:24 PM PDT by FLNittany
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Is that true? I haven’t come across that. Do you remember the Freeper(s) who advocated that?


17 posted on 03/24/2022 8:02:22 PM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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I know a lady who escaped Cuba and moved to Oregon. She just moved to Florida, escaping from Oregon. She was seeing things in government that reminded her of Cuba.


18 posted on 03/24/2022 8:19:57 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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RE: The Cuban Air Force pilot that defected to the US with his MiG-23. He then borrowed a Cessna 310, flew back to Cuba and brought his family to America.

The Cuban Air Force has a HUGE security hole if they allowed this to happen.


19 posted on 03/24/2022 9:12:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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He obviously made it up. He is stupid.


20 posted on 03/24/2022 9:14:37 PM PDT by TTFX
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