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The 10 Coolest Aircraft Neil Armstrong Ever Flew
Are these really the coolest aircraft Armstrong ever flew? Let the opinions be heard! (www.businessinsider.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
When you see the memorial at Cape Canaveral, you realize how dangerous space travel is, and how brave the astronauts are. It's sobering to see how many lost their lives.
Yes...the X-15
they forgot the most important ones relative to the space program: the Gemini 8 Agena mission and the LEM protoype trainer. The Gemini 8 docking maneuver nearly turned into a loss of both crewman which Armstrong under coolness got it squared away just in time. On the LEM trainer (basically a large jet engine underneath a truck) something seriously went wrong on one flight and Armstrong quickly escaped before it crashed. Add both of these up and he was a good candidate for being number one on the moon.
Niel Armstrong was a man, and the best of what a man can be. Quiet dignity,engaged in endeavor's that made sense. Rocket ships, altitude and the moon...he was just a man that offered humanity a sense of something other then earth dirt..Our first personal representative. God bless him.
I believe Neil was also test pilot for LEM test vehicle which he was forced to eject from as it went out of control...
Neal was one of the Navy NPE evaluation pilots on the Navy AH-1 aircraft built by McDonnell Aircraft and was flown at Edwards AFB in 1958. The aircraft was later identified as F4H-1 and later known as the F4. He was a NASA test pilot at the time.