Before the Cold War ended, there was a RC here in Alaska, called the Cobra Ball, that flew missions off of Shemya AFB out at the end of the Aleutian chain. When KAL flight 007 was shot down by the Ruskies, there was a lot of speculation that they thought they'd finally caught an RC straying into their airspace, and took it out. Probably will always be lot's of controversy/conspiracy theories over that incident.
I remember the event well, as I was in the midst of basic at Lackland in Sep 83, and the TI's had us convinced were about to be at war with the red menace.
Jeff
Yeah, I recall hearing about that years later. We (my office at FTD) had some tasking with RC-135's out of Offutt and Kadena flying Burning Wind missions. This was some years later so the "mistaken identity" theory had of course grown into legend by then.
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