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...during the Suez crisis, Gallagher sat in the cockpit of an F-84 Thunderjet at England's Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base, an atom bomb fixed beneath his plane. On high alert, he waited for a single command to take off. His target was a Finnish airfield, presumably one the Soviets would otherwise use. "I don't think people realize how close we were ((to nuclear war))," he says. From 1958 to 1962, he was squadron commander of Outpost Mission, on call to rescue the President from nuclear attack; three years later he went to Mount Weather...
...next. We will not let you fly on the ((presidential)) airplane they ((the plotters)) arrived on. ((It was still unclear whether the coup had been totally foiled, and they were wary of using the easily identifiable presidential plane.)) We will take my plane. It is parked on the same airfield but at a distance from yours. It is closely guarded. I brought along 40 lieutenant colonels, all of them armed. We will break through...
Once on the airfield, M.S. pretended he was getting out of his car to board the presidential plane, then immediately climbed back into the car, which instantly sped off for Rutskoi's plane, two or three miles farther away. So when Gorbachev, dressed in his cardigan, got out of the car and went to the airplane, those lieutenant colonels were standing with their rifles at the ready until he disappeared inside. Watching this scene, I thought that there is still an officer's honor in our army...
...fainthearted. For a mere $10,000, the American air-show buff can now buy a few minutes of thrills as a passenger in a MiG-29 Fulcrum, the U.S.S.R.'s hottest jet fighter. A few intrepid customers have signed up for rides ranging from a gentle swing around the airfield to a serious workout at 1,500 m.p.h. The thrills start this weekend at Massachusetts' Westfield-Barnes airport and then continue at shows in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Kansas and California...
...civilian airliners, the Tu-204 and Il-114. Nearby is the T-128 transonic wind tunnel, where the space shuttle Buran and the Energiya booster rocket were tested with airstreams driven by a 1,000-kW compressor. The center is also adjacent to the Ramenskoye proving ground, the largest airfield in Europe...