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2 unusual facts about Blind Flight


Blind Flight

It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis.

Blind Flight is a 2003 British film directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache.



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Low-frequency radio range

On September 24, 1929, then-Lieutenant (later General) James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle, U.S. Army, demonstrated the first "blind" flight, performed exclusively by reference to instruments and without outside visibility, and proved that instrument flying was feasible.

Mitchel Air Force Base

In September 1929, Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, then a Lieutenant, made the world's first blind flight.