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To: Sundog

One of the doc channels interviewed a former crewman: "...and in half an hour, we were turning around at the Canadian border to go back to Edwards..."


31 posted on 03/31/2007 2:26:36 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

They should have built a hundred of them.

The intel that Russia had finished and used a new SAM to shoot down Gary Powers was bogus.

Wikipedia still has it wrong that he was shot down by a SAM.

A JATO unit affixed to a soviet jet gave it the boost to reach him and the near collission collapsed a wing of the U-2.


32 posted on 03/31/2007 8:47:55 PM PDT by Sundog (We are all counting down the days.)
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