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Flying a glorified tin can across the North Pole requires a special brand of insanity. In 1937, Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov commanded an unpressurized ANT-25…
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During a massive mid-air emergency, a man was violently blown out of his bomber aircraft without a parachute from 18,000 feet up. He miraculously crashed…
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Plunging deep underground in a soot-filled metal tube with barely any internal lighting was somehow considered the absolute pinnacle of modern luxury.
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Someone's entire grueling job was fiercely staring at falling sand for months on end so the navigator wouldn't completely lose track of where they were.
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Before the U-2 spy plane, the CIA genuinely believed that launching giant, unsteerable balloons over hostile airspace was a flawless intelligence strategy. In…
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Tired of not flying, a truck driver named Larry tied 45 massive weather balloons to an ordinary plastic patio chair, grabbed a pellet gun to shoot them down,…
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