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Those model airplane kits of rubber bands balsa wood and glue.....but to tell his stopry of 82 years to our great grand nephew Leo, sitting in his yellow hi chair at 24 months (his birthday, the 15th of August) would take the Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochane Hap Arnold Jimmy Doolittle Howard Hughes, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Curtis LeMay, Billy Mitchell, Paul McGuire, .Bud Yeager, Buzz Aldrin,(NA’s (Nasa) co pilot), Carl Spattz....
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Leo could hear the sound breaking barrier.... window shaking noise but little did he know whence it came and how jet power evolved thru the ages of those model airplane kits.of a simpler unhurried Dream..
Those early prop tests at Governors Island, Mitchell AFB, Floyd Bennet Field, Wright Patterson, Andrews AFB, Edwards AFB, El Segundo, George AFB, March AFB, Strategic Air Command, Duxford AFB (B17s) ("Spitfires") Lakenheath US RAF, Shepherd, Kelly, Roswell; in Dover AFB, Westover, McGuire AFB..Lowery AFB, Van Nuysa Air National Guard, Long
Beach 448th (B 25s)
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"One small step for man " Neil Armstrong stepping on the mon, into extraterrestrial space,
" a giant leap for mankind."
At age 82. August 25, 2012
