Word: flogger
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...aircraft under development at Nellis that use the new and highly classified Stealth technology, an array of design innovations supposedly capable of making aircraft virtually invisible to enemy radar. Then came an even more intriguing, though also unconfirmed, report: Bond was actually flying a Soviet-built MiG-23 Flogger, the primary fighter craft of the Soviet air force, with a maximum speed of some 1,700 m.p.h...
Some aircraft authorities expressed surprise that Bond would have been allowed to take the Flogger up. Even though the general had recently passed a rigorous "Class 2" Air Force physical, which includes aerobic stress tests and other exacting measurements, some Air Force officials frown on pilots over the age of 45 flying solo in high-performance craft. "Why was Bond flying a plane like that, when he was on the verge of retirement?" asks an Air Force source. Bond's judgment, as well as that of his superiors, will doubtless be one of the points covered in a special...