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That’s pretty cool ! I heard he was a super guy !The story is an airline pilot realized Niel was on his flight. The pilot asked Niel for a signature on his charts. The signature is "Niel Armstrong" Let's call this chart "Medium Altitude". View attachment 262395
, Niel story here too. So, in my airforce days , I had just gotten on my first squadron, and as a very new pilot , was invited with a few other newcomers to a BBQ at our squadrons senior IP (instructor pilots ) married quarters. He had been one of Canadas best test pilots in the late 1950s , early ‘60s ( back when we had a functional airforce…but I digress!)
Most of the work he did was at Edwards AFB , and he had huge amount of time in all kinds of exotic airframes.
He went inside and brought out to the table a literal stack of his old log books , with super cool black and white pics he had taped inside and neat notes in the “remarks” column.
Anyway. I noted more than a few entries with “N.Armstrong “ listed as the second pilot , and I screwed up my courage and kinda squeaked out “ uhhhh….is this actually NIEL ARMSTRONG?? You were flying with him ???
“Yeah” he says , all the time ! Hell of a nice guy….”but he couldn’t fly formation worth a shit.”
My IP was an amazing stick, but to just roll that off ( well, he was sitting in front of 10 of his logbooks )
I was speechless