5489 that would become famous on the Warbird circuit as Iron Annie. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration squadron and set the world record for the number of people deployed for a wing-walk - nineteen - on one wing of an airplane on November 14, 1981.Ĭaidin was one of the people involved in the rescue and resurrection of the Junkers Ju 52 No. Army's Golden Knights parachute demonstration team flew for several months with the U.S. Among his other honors, he was made an honorary member of the U.S. He twice won the Aviation/Space Writers Association award as the outstanding author in the field of aviation. The movie starred Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, and Gene Hackman. The novel was the basis for the movie Marooned made in 1969. Caidin's 1964 novel Marooned tells the story of an American astronaut who is stranded in space and NASA's attempt to rescue him.
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