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  2. Hughes Aircraft Company - Wikipedia

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    By the end of that year, the U.S. Air Force had purchased the property and contracted Hughes (and subsequently Raytheon [18]) to operate the site as Air Force Plant 44. Howard Hughes donated Hughes Aircraft to the newly formed Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 1953 allegedly as a way of avoiding taxes on its huge income. [19]

  3. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    Major Rudolf Anderson, a Greenville, South Carolina native and 1948 graduate from Clemson University's cadet corps and pilot with the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing is tasked with an overflight of Cuba on mission 3128, in a CIA Lockheed U-2F spyplane, remarked with U.S. Air Force insignia, to take photos of the Soviet SS-N-4 medium-range ...

  4. AIM-4 Falcon - Wikipedia

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    Leighton, David, ""The History of the Hughes Missile Plant in Tucson, 1947-1960," Private Publication, 2015; McCarthy Jr. Donald J. MiG Killers, A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam 1965-1973. 2009, Specialty Press. ISBN 978-1-58007-136-9. Michel III, Marshall L. Clashes, Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972. 1997, Naval Institute ...

  5. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    The 6555th Guided Missile Squadron at Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches Martin B-61 Matador, GM-547. Lift-off and flight were normal, but the missile did not respond properly to guidance signals, and it finally went out of control and fell into the Atlantic 15 minutes and 20 seconds after launch. The flight covered a distance of 105 miles. [146]

  6. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    A medical evacuation helicopter is seen in the background in this photo taken during Stephen Canty’s time in Afghanistan. (Courtesy of Stephen Canty) Late that afternoon Darren Doss, a slim, black-haired 22-year-old, watched as his fellow Marines zipped up the two body bags, placed them tenderly on stretchers and ran out to the waiting ...

  7. Howard Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Hughes acquired 1200 acres in Culver City for Hughes Aircraft, bought 7 sections [4,480 acres] in Tucson for his Falcon missile-plant, and purchased 25,000 acres near Las Vegas. [ 6 ] : 103, 254 In 1968, the Hughes Tool Company purchased the North Las Vegas Air Terminal.

  8. File:1946-07-11 Hughes Plane Crash.ogv - Wikipedia

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    1946-07-11_Hughes_Plane_Crash.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 53 s, 400 × 300 pixels, 535 kbps overall, file size: 3.36 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  9. Satellite photos show Israel hit Iran former nuclear weapons ...

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    Iran has the Middle East's largest missile arsenal and supplied missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine, and to Yemen's Houthi rebels and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, according to U.S ...