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Man flys to the moon and back, and then 55 years later as a 91 year old dies flying a jet aircraft. Some are just built different.
by ls612 2y ago
Man flys to the moon and back, and then 55 years later as a 91 year old dies flying a jet aircraft. Some are just built different.
- rmason 2y agoIn my opinion Chuck Yeager was the best pilot ever. A World War 2 ace who shot down 13 German planes. First to break the sound barrier. But Yeager took his last flight in a jet at 79 (with a copilot) and surrendered his pilots license at age 80. I am not taking anything away from William Anders but 91 might have been just too old to be responsibly flying a jet.
- mulmen 2y agoThe T-34 is not a jet.
- BenFranklin100 2y ago[flagged]
- AceJohnny2 2y ago> flying a jet aircraft Not a jet. The T-34 is a propeller aircraft, used for training.
- ls612 2y agoMy bad my mind substituted in T-38 I thought he was flying an old jet trainer not a turboprop.
- hollerith 2y agoThe important distinction is not whether it has a propeller, but rather the powerplant: is it a reciprocating engine or a gas turbine? I'm going to go out on a limb a little and say that every single warplane in the US military has a gas turbine engine. Some gas turbines drive a propeller (turboprop).
- knodi123 2y agoLawrence of Arabia was at the forefront of so many skirmishes, but in the end he got killed driving a motorcycle back at home.
- TMWNN 2y agoOne of the inventors of the motorcycle "died in the saddle" at the age of 72. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c26z70/til_that_the_inventor_of_the_motorcycle_died/ https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c26z70/til_t...>