The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other)

[LSLGuy]

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?

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…