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A Lan-Chile had a rather interesting experience recently when he encountered a piece of space junk during a trans-Pacific flight. It turned out to be part of an old Soviet satellite that was re-entering the earth atmosphere. Must have been an interesting feeling seeing the bits coming down to earth in front of your aircraft in an uncontrolled fashion.
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After many good years of operations, the Royal Australian Air Force will soon replace its F111's with F18 Super Hornets as an interim and ultimately to be replaced by F35JSF. The Australian F111s became operational in 1972 and despite a couple few aircraft losses, the aircraft has performed extremely well over the years. The F111 was one of the first 'swing-wing' aircraft and one the first equipped with 'terrain following radar' allowing flight at very low altitudes. Many, most now retired, RAAF pilots gained enormous amounts of valuable flying experience on the aircraft and I do hope that a few F111s will be able to be retained by the various aircraft museums. I want one.
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And while we are on the subject of aircraft museums, there are now a number of museums in a substantial number of countries that are holding examples of the DC3-C47 Dakota in flying condition. Some private tour operators also have some examples while, in some countries, the military still use them. For those interesting in old pieces of flying equipment, getting aboard one of these for a flight is a worthwhile experience. Flying them is interesting. They are slow, fly like a truck and turning a DC3 around on a runway requires 'skills'.
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