Original sentence: 29 September 2006 — NORAD scrambled Canadian CF-18s from CFB Cold Lake in Central Alberta and American F-15s out of an airbase in Alaska to intercept "a number of the Russian Tu-95 Bear heavy bombers participating in an annual Russian air force exercise near the coast of Alaska and Canada.9 February 2008 — in the Western Pacific, a Russian Tu-95 flew over the aircraft carrier  twice, at a low altitude of about 610 m (2,000 ft), while another bomber circled about 93 km (58 mi) out.During the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, there were many well known anecdotes about US and Canadian pilots showing erotic magazines and beverages to the Russians, in order to make fun about communist moral principles.Western fighters were — and are — often sent to intercept Tu-95s as they performed their missions along the periphery of NATO airspace, often in very close formation
Edited sentence: 29 September 2006 — NORAD scrambled Canadian CF-18s from CFB Cold Lake in northern Alberta and American F-15s out of an airbase in Alaska to intercept "a number of the Russian Tu-95 Bear heavy bombers participating in an annual Russian air force exercise near the coast of Alaska and Canada.9 February 2008 — in the western Pacific, a Russian Tu-95 flew over the aircraft carrier  twice, at a low altitude of about 610 m (2,000 ft), while another bomber circled about 93 km (58 mi) out.During the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States, there were many well known anecdotes about U.NATO fighters were — and are — often sent to intercept Tu-95s as they performed their missions along the periphery of NATO airspace, often in very close formation.and Canadian pilots showing erotic magazines and beverages to the Russians, in order to make fun about communist moral principles