In Close and Gusty

Credit: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
It was 1800 hours (Central European Time), late November 1990. The U.S. Air Force C-5 had been cleared to land on Rhein-Main’s (Frankfurt) 13,000-ft. Runway 25L. At this, the four-month mark of Desert Shield, it had been another day of bone-crushing fatigue. In this case that meant that the New York...

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