In 1989, just before the collapse of the USSR, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world.
At Midway in 1942, the entire course of the Pacific War was altered in just five minutes.
Although the British were technologically far behind the Germans in the early months of aerial warfare, they were soon able to field an effective response to the “Fokker Scourge”, and win air superiority through a completely different approach to fighter design.
Based on a futuristic Nazi design, Dyna-Soar was a failed military attempt to build a space-plane bomber, which ultimately led to the Space Shuttle.
Wind-tunnel test models of Dyna-Soar, on display at the US Air Force Museum, Dayton OH
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