found story via ace
Now that’s brave.
Yet many here in the US call us oppressors and racists all the while people try to escape to freedom here.
That’s a Great Story!
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If we had a Few Patriotic
Types within the DS,,,
viva lorenzo!!
As bad as the MIG that landed at Homestead while Air Force 1 was on the flight line.
Lorenzo and his wife are family friends. They are fine people.
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.
The Putinistas here want him arrested and returned to Cuba.
Did he get Sky King’s Songbird?
the guy was a U.S. citizen. one of the first things he did was give us a birth certificate from (i believe) chicago.
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.
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.
Cool story. Reminds me of the MIG pilot that defected from the USSR and landed in Japan in 1976. Gave the Mig 25 to the USAF. The soviets demanded it’s return. So the Air Force returned it in boxes. Each part had been cataloged and individually boxed up.