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Predators and Prey

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
*Notices no spaceflights are planned specifically for 2029*

Screw it, we're doing random facts now. On 2000 in aviation history, Malaysia Airlines 85 (an A330 reg'd 9M-MKB) is destroyed after some cans tip over in the cargo hold. Nobody notices anything during the flight, but upon landing, five baggage handlers become sick from the leaking fumes. A Chinese company (Dalian) had shipped several canisters of oxalyl chloride on the plane, but to avoid the extra costs and inconvenience of getting safety packaging, they labelled it as a much safer powder compound. The plane is (mostly) structurally sound, but the chemical is ingested by the plane's A/C and bleed air* systems. The cost of replacing both systems is enough to total the 5 year old airliner, and a Beijing court orders Dalian to cover the damages plus interest.

*High pressure 'bleed' pressure lines taking excess pressurized air from the post-compressor/pre-ignition stages in the engines
 

DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
I wonder what you wrote in that message.
Was it an SOS to the world?

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TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
Random espionage facts:
A cornerstone of MI5's operations during the cold war was the Post Office Special Investigations Unit run by a Major Denman. Their job was to intercept all surface mail sent to or from known Soviet agents and have a look. Letter could be steamed open, have the letter inside removed using the 'slit bamboo' method, simply ripped open and a replacement envelope typed if possible, or the letter could be read and simply destroyed if there was no way of sneakily opening it.
Major Denman had a particular letter framed behind his desk, it had been sent to the top Soviet diplomat in the UK from a known agent so it would be of interest, when it was opened Denman found the following written on the paper:
'To MI5
If you steam this open you are dirty buggers.'
Denman found this funny, classified it as 'obscene post' so he had no legal duty to send it and kept it as a trophy.
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TR273

Pirate Fox Mom
More fun spy facts:
MI5 used chase cars to follow Soviet agents around London. During on such operation on a cold winters day, MI5 was tailing a car down the Mall when the Russian braked hard for the roundabout outside Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately the British car hit a patch of ice and plowed into the back of the Russian car. The driver's got out and exchanged insurance details, absolutely poker faced, since they both knew who the other really was.
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DRGN Juno

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA -Sukhoi, 2020
Random aviation fact: In 2003, a Boeing 727 formerly leased to TAAG Angola Airlines was stolen from the tarmac at Luanda, Angola. At the time, TAAG owed over $4M in airport fees since the plane sat grounded since the previous year. Depending on who you ask, one or two men boarded the aircraft, taxiied it erratically without lights, and took off, departing over the Atlantic. The plane and its thief (or thieves) has never been found.

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