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US fighter drops dummy bomb on Virginian town

Virginia Beach , USA - Minor damages reported

No one got hurt, but after the recent episode of the "Atomic flight" cost the career to various US Air Force officials (see AVIONEWS), this is not a very reassuring signal in regard to the safety measures operated by the American Armed Forces too. In the afternoon of yesterday a F/A-18 Hornet fighter of the US Navy, produced by Boeing, returning from a training mission over Dare County, in North...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1081455
Rome, Italy, 10/31/2007 11:51
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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