Aviation History - January 2016

(Dana P.) #1

58 AH January 2016


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Longtime pilot Philip Handleman
is the author of 22 aviation
books. For further reading, he
recommends: :IQLWV\PM
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Dan McKinnon; and .QZ[\
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Shlomo Nakdimon.

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osirak’s nemesis Fighting Falcon No. 107 is now preserved
at the Hatzerim Air Force Museum, in the Negev Desert. TOP: NASA; BOTTOM: ISRAELI AIR FORCE
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