# The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) (Part 1)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499 "2011-10-23T02:17:01Z")
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### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-aviation-thread-general-and-other-part-1/600499/4831 "2023-11-19T21:37:59Z")

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Soviet-era Russian men don’t have a great life expectancy even when they spend much of it in nicer environments.

I met him once. Story here:

> [@A Belenko-style alien contact scenario?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-belenko-style-alien-contact-scenario/984456/5):
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> I was in USAF a few years after Belenko defected. At that time he was employed by USAF as a speaker who presented a class on Soviet thinking to fighter pilots attending Red Flag. So I met the guy, albeit briefly. As did dozens of other people that morning. USAF / DoD did have quite a process at the beginning to decide how much to trust this guy and his story. The MiG-25 was unequivocal evidence, while everything he said might have been BS or a Soviet ploy to embed a double-agent in USAF. I…

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