“Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.”
— Alan Shepard
Author: Alan Shepard
Category: morning
Tags: morning, Alan Shepard
“We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.”
— Alan Shepard
Author: Alan Shepard
Category: design
Tags: design, Alan Shepard
“The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.”
— Alan Shepard
Author: Alan Shepard
Category: attitude
Tags: attitude, Alan Shepard