High altitude jump from a nearly forgotten age

> Where are today's heros?

My heroes in soaring are the guys out west doing amazing cross country
flights. Gordon, Kemp, and others. Of course there is Jim Hard doing
DIAMOND downwind flights in his 1-26 from Minnesota, and then sitting
down with me at supper to hear about my puny flights.

And you know what? This young punk reads books about the hero's of
your youth, Kittinger, Kuettner etc, and idolizes them as well.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:03:38 -0600, "Bill Daniels"
<bildan@comcast-dot-net> wrote:

>Remembering those days make tears come to my eyes.
>
>My High School buddy Wolfgang Braun, the son of a 'Operation Paperclip'
>scientist,

I worked for a couple of Paperclippers for about six months, doing my
Master's thesis project in a lab at WPAFB. My thesis advisor was Herr
Erich Soehngen (Herr not Doktor because the Eighth Air Force had
terminated his dissertation project prematurely), and the head of the
lab was Hans von Ohain, whose projects in the Forties had borne a bit
more fruit...

rj

On Mar 21, 2:56 pm, "01-- Zero One" <l...@goddard.com> wrote:
Imagine, on any given day you might here sonic booms and
> look up to see "chase fighters" going supersonic chasing after the
> contrails of missiles fired from the White Sands Missile range.

Not quite in the same league perhaps but I have fond teenage memories
of seeing, and hearing, the Avro Vulcan that was the testbed for the
Concorde Olympus engine flying over my home town. That was the same
place I used to cycle to the airport (Locking) to watch T21s winch
launch and the Auster giving pleasure flights. I got hooked on flying
then but it took another 15 years to start to live the dream.

Andy