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History does not repeat, but sometimes it rhymes

15th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Puffins of a certain age will recall that seminal moment in 1987 when Mathias Rust, a West German teenager, seemingly did the impossible when he flew a Cessna light aircraft through 500 miles of the [more…]

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