This nerd had unimaginable levels of low inhib

[BigBiceps]

The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust

Ronald Reagan was president, there was still a Soviet Union, and a 19-year-old pilot set out to change the world

www.airspacemag.com

ON A MILD SPRING DAY IN LATE MAY 1987, military analyst John Pike was at the U.S. embassy in Moscow on business when he looked out the window and saw a small airplane circling over Red Square. Gee, that’s peculiar, thought Pike. There’s no private aviation in the Soviet Union. Hell, there’s no private anything.

The aircraft belonged to West German teenager Mathias Rust—or, more accurately, to Rust’s flying club. In a daring attempt to ease cold war tensions, the 19-year-old amateur pilot had flown a single-engine Cessna nearly 550 miles from Helsinki to the center of Moscow—probably the most heavily defended city on the planet—and parked it at the base of St. Basil’s Cathedral, within spitting distance of Lenin’s tomb.

 

[Deleted member 7753]

Just endanger the entire planet theory. Lowest inhib possible

 

[Deleted member 10176]

I don't get it

 

[BigBiceps]

I don't get it

He illegally flew to Soviet Union with his flight club's plane. If the Soviet Airforce had spotted him, he probably would've been shot down.

 

[Deleted member 10176]

He illegally flew to Soviet Union with his flight club's plane. If the Soviet Airforce had spotted him, he probably would've been shot down.

OK thanks

 

[Deleted member 4887]

Lost all my respect for him after reading this. What a clown

 

[EckhartTollemaxx]

View attachment 793809Lost all my respect for him after reading this. What a clown

Literally textbook example of low inhibition. Good features, bad results.

 

[Hozay]

He illegally flew to Soviet Union with his flight club's plane. If the Soviet Airforce had spotted him, he probably would've been shot down.

jesus christ, what a fucking chad.