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Questions about aviation history, starting from kites, balloons, airplanes, helicopters and rockets.

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When were flares first used as IR countermeasures, and by whom?

My father commanded a Stinger AC 119 squadron in SE Asia in the early 1970s. I don't recall the exact dates except that he was there before May 1972 and retired from there in about March 1973. He woul …
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