Sunday, November 06, 2005

Who's That Guy In The Grob 103?

On Sixty Minutes, Ed Bradley just did a segment on Ohio boy Neil Armstrong. At the end of the segment, they showed us what kind of flying a fighter pilot, test pilot, astronaut, and first man on the moon does for fun these days: he flies sailplanes.
The man who once rode a 160-million horsepower rocket now flies a glider, a plane with no engine.
“Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closet you can come to being a bird,” says Armstrong.
What does Armstrong get out of gliding? “Oh, it is self satisfaction. A sense of accomplishment. At trying to do a little better than you think you possibly can,” he says.
There's more at the SSA website.

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