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The story of the legendary “mirror flight”, when in 1983 a Soviet Tu-22 bomber got lost and flew to Iran.

Chapters:
00:00 - The Regiment
04:26 - ИБД
09:37 - Rogue Plane
14:24 - Mountains
19:05 - Back In the USSR

Paper Skies - amazing stories about famous airplanes, historical events, or exceptional people that have changed the world of aviation or turned out to be unfairly forgotten.

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