Episode 65 - The time the Japanese sent a Soviet warplane back in crates and costly construction cock-ups

This week on the internet, Chris learns about the time when a Soviet air force pilot defected to Japan with an at the time state of the art MiG-25 that the Americans and their allies were desperate to get their hands on. From flying blind, to landing at a civilian airport with too short a runway to accommodate the warplane through the Japanese finally crating up and sending back the fighter jet and charging the Soviets for the pleasure. This story has it all! Harrison meanwhile discovers three costly construction cock-ups! The first building created a death ray that caused havoc on the streets of London as cars were slightly melted and one man’s welcome mat was slightly scorched. Then there is the New York skyscraper that could have toppled over, had an engineering student not realised that the designers had messed up their maths. Finally the airport in Berlin that was delayed for nearly 10 years because of thousands of problems and finally opened right in the middle of the Coronavirus lockdown!