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This is a Picture Story about the First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan that Helped Ended World War 2 !!
John Wayne liked to talk about this Man and The Guts That He Had to take this Big task on Himself !!!
Chilibill
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[/extendedmedia]Ride on a U2 spy plane
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Wow, amazing watching thru a small screen.
Looks like they had UFO Kooks, even way back then.
Chester 
NUTS! 
wow they surly are risk takers
cheers smokey
Thank you, Jim and Sue, for that great video. We've had Mustangs flying around here from time to time; boy, did they make a racket! BTW - Test pilot Chuck Yeager was one of those Mustang pilots who did combat in Germany during WWII.
Recieved this from Stumpy,
THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE PIECE OF AVIATION HISTORY. Chester 
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Another piece of aviation history, kind of reminds me of ChiliBill's story of ditching a plane he was flying... only this one was over water . . . Click on the youtube to read the story, or, open to full screen.
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BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE FIRST AMERICAN JET AIRLINER THE 707, HISTORY WAS MADE IN AVIATION, TAKE A LOOK !!! 
CHILIBILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pw6MrAKlM
Thanks for this Jim
Here You can find great picture galleries about the last piggyback rides and the retirement of the American Space Shuttles:
http://www.collectspace.com/shuttles/
Discovery is now at the Smithsonian Museum, Enterprise has reached her new destination in the Air and Sea Museum on the old WWII aircraft carrier Intrepid, Endeavour will go to the California Science Museum this fall and Atlantis is prepared for display at KSC. - The whole Shuttle Program was breathtaking, although I grew up with the Apollo Program and the flights to the moon. If I were in the US, I would go to one of the museums, to see the Space Shuttle!
I feel, it´s a shame, that the gouvernment did not give NASA enough money to start a new great space program. For the first time in America´s spaceflight history there is no clear direction where to go...
