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MightyFly’s Cento aircraft executed a DoD-relevant mission, demonstrating autonomous flight, cargo loading, unloading, and ...
In the darkness over Vietnam, the AC-47 “Spooky” carved its place in history. Originally a WWII-era cargo plane, it was transformed into a fearsome gunship known as “Puff the Magic Dragon.” ...
It turns out, Traynor was the cargo plane's pilot. Dennis "Bud" Traynor was a 30-year-old Air Force pilot at the time, who explained what happened on April 4, 1975.
A Ho Chi Minh City-bound Boeing 787 was taxiing for takeoff when it struck a Airbus A321, parked on the tarmac, waiting to depart for Dien Bien.
DENVER — Hope turned into heartbreak 50 years ago this month, when a cargo plane loaded with Vietnamese orphans bound for America crashed in a rice field.Devaki Murch was on that plane. Now she ...
Vietnam had been a taboo—something to be ashamed of. ... Like his memories of U.S. cargo planes loading passengers in the dark, since the North Vietnamese had begun bombing the flight line.
The company founder created a global transportation giant. He died Saturday at age 80.
The bodies of four people who had clung to the cargo doors of a C-130 falling like sacks of flour out of the sky as the plane rose. “You never see the truth of what war really is like,” said ...
A U.S.-based analyst told VOA on September 12 that Giang’s trip set the groundwork for Hanoi to potentially purchase military cargo planes from the United States this year.
Fifty years ago, 2-year-old Phan Kim Phuong was handed up into a military aircraft, her future a near-complete blank save one truth: She would not grow up in Vietnam.