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Kevin Werner said:
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". :laughing::laughing::laughing:View attachment 262395
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That’s pretty cool ! I heard he was a super guy !
, 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 😶
 
Paleomechanic said:
That’s pretty cool ! I heard he was a super guy !
, 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 😶
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I an laughing outloud "But he couldn't fly formation worth a shit".
I worked for a year with CF personell in 85/86 at CFB Cold Lake. I have fond affection for each and every...
 
Paleomechanic said:
That’s pretty cool ! I heard he was a super guy !
, 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 😶
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That must have been Jan Zurakowski, Peter Cope or Spud Potoki...?
 
MaxPete said:
That must have been Jan Zurakowski, Peter Cope or Spud Potoki...?
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None of the above, Jan never flew again after the Arrow, others I’m not sure

My IP was Rod Durnin ( spelling may escape my memory, was like , almost 40 years ago lol

Rod was involved in a few of the flyover above ground Nuc tests as well back then
 
Paleomechanic said:
None of the above, Jan never flew again after the Arrow, others I’m not sure

My IP was Rod Durnin ( spelling may escape my memory, was like , almost 40 years ago lol

Rod was involved in a few of the flyover above ground Nuc tests as well back then
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Yes - of course you are correct. The Arrow flying was all in the late 1950s - likely 30 years before your time at CFB Cold Lake.
 
Mailman said:
Large scale radio controlled SR71 Blackbird jet…….even a model SR71 is fast! 😳

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I would fully expect he has some gyro stabilization there. solid state gryos (about 20 years ago) really opened things up for scale modeling.
I had started to use mechanical heli gyros on the ailerons of my planes in the 90's to fly in the wind. People called me "gyroboy". I laughed it off when I was flying in high winds and they were just watching. It became more mainstream in larger models first then propagated to smaller ones. I did information videos on youtube (still there) and then on a web page I maintained (stopped it a decade ago). Those solid state gyros propelled the quad propeller drone industry later and then they started to come out with full 3 axis stabilization modules for the RC market. Cheap and high end stuff.
Truely amazing how things have come along in the RC world.
 
Dust filtration at a blast furnace in Ukraine. Looks more like something from War of the Worlds.

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Mailman said:
Large scale radio controlled SR71 Blackbird jet…….even a model SR71 is fast! 😳

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That is an awesome RC.

I got to see the SR71 take off and land at Kadina Air Force base back in the late '80s. It is quite awe inspiring to see it take off, get about 1500 feet up and then climb vertically disappearing into the cloudcover. A couple of F16s and a refueler always took off in support a couple minutes before the SR71.
 

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