Words of Advice:

"Never Feel Sorry For Anyone Who Owns an Airplane."-- Tina Marie

"
If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

"
Flying the Airplane is More Important than Radioing Your Plight to a Person on the Ground
Who is Incapable of Understanding or Doing Anything About It.
" -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Monday, February 20, 2012

Godspeed, John Glenn +50

It has been fifty years since John Glenn's first spaceflight. He is the first American to have orbited the Earth.



Col. Glenn is still with us, though he recently sold his Beechcraft Baron as it was getting too hard on his and his wife Anne's knees to get in and out of it.

Hard to believe that it's been fifty years.

1 Brickbats Thrown:

  1. And now if Americans go into space, it's on Russian birds. It must make his heart sad to see a once-great nation fallen so far.

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