- Good Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right now than in the centuries to come.
- Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was studying at Purdue, we learned our thermodynamics from an antique steam engine. When I went back in 1964, I found the laboratories packed with the most modern equipment for the study of thermodynamics, some of which had been built by the students themselves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't hand out Ph.D.s in test piloting, but you pick up a tremendous amount of scientific and engineering knowledge along the way. After all, when you take up a brand new plane and put it through its paces to see if it will hang together, you are really flying somebody's theory.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was stationed at the flight test center at Wright-Patterson, and I was flying a wide range of airplanes and giving them a lot of different tests. It was a job that I thoroughly enjoyed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it would be good for the engineers and workmen who were building my spacecraft to see the pilot who would have to fly it hanging around. It might make them just a little more careful than they already were and a little more eager to get the work done on time if they saw how much I cared.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not think my chances were very big when I saw some of the other men who were competing for the team. They were a good group, and I had a lot of respect for them. But I decided to give it the old school try and to take some of NASA's tests.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was especially hard for me, as a professional pilot. In all of my years of flying - including combat in Korea - this was the first time that my aircraft and I had not come back together. In my entire career as a pilot, 'Liberty Bell' was the first thing I had ever lost.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020