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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...score remained deadlocked at the end of regulation, but the Elis went ahead for good eight minutes into the extra session after Mario Bonaccorsi's blast was recovered by Donnell. Donnell dished the ball off to Rick Fullerton, who nailed home the game-winner...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Elis Top M. Booters In Overtime, 3-1 | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

That's what Mike Blackstone and his crew at Air Combat U.S.A. in Fullerton, Calif., have going for them. "We're having altogether too much fun around here," he says. Since he bought his first two-seat trainers and went into the business last spring, more than 1,000 would-be fighter aces have flown sorties. For about $500 a flight, Air Combat U.S.A. will give the Top Gun fanatic an exhilarating course in aerial tactics guaranteed to put your stomach in your throat with maneuvers that test the mettle of experienced nonmilitary pilots -- not to mention the amateurs, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Walter Mitty Wins a Dogfight | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...Combat operations shack at Fullerton Municipal Airport is a beehive, as pairs of fledgling aces go through their briefings, don flight suits and parachutes and climb into the low-wing propeller planes for the thrill of a lifetime. When the planes return from the hour-long flight, airsickness bags are discreetly discarded and a debriefing takes place using videotape from the cockpit and gun camera of each airplane. (Trainees keep the videotapes as a souvenir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Walter Mitty Wins a Dogfight | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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