Word: nf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camel 70 mm. NF...
Lucky Strike 70 mm NF...
Pall Mall 85 mm. NF...
...filter, MF - menthol filter, NF - non-filter...
...rocket engine in the tail boomed the experimental NF-104A jet Starfighter up to 90,000 ft. and the edge of space. Then disaster. The craft went into a flat spin and plummeted out of control. In the cockpit, Air Force Colonel Charles (Chuck) Yeager, 40, first man to fly faster than sound and currently C.O. of the Edwards test-pilot school, stayed with the violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side...