Neil Armstrong was first getting interested in flying when he was five years old thats when he started to make models of airplanes. When he was six years old that is when he first got to fly in a airplane. When he was 15 years old he had his pilot license before he got his drivers license. The rocket x-5 was the fastest airplane in the world and Neil Armstrong got to fly it as a test pilot. After he was in the Korean war that is when he got to fly the x-5 rocket.
Neil Armstrong went through years of training, which he went through at Indiana’s Purdue University in 1947 with a scholarship from the U.S. Navy. He studied for two years when he was called to active duty, during which time he won his jet pilot wings at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. He was the youngest pilot in his squadron at …show more content…
Afterwards he accepted a job with the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in Cleveland, Ohio. One year later he married Janet Shearon.
Shortly afterwards Armstrong transferred to Edwards Air Force Base in California. He became a skilled test pilot and flew early models of many jet aircrafts. Armstrong was selected as one of the first three NACA pilots to fly the X-17 rocket-engine plane, which he made seven flights in. It was kind of an early model for a future spacecraft. He once set a record altitude of 207,500 feet and a speed of 3,989 miles per hour.
Neil Armstrong then received an invitation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) American Space and Flight program. However he showed little interest in becoming an astronaut. Because his real love was flying airplanes. He was selected as a pilot of the Dynasoar, an experimental craft that could leave the Earth's atmosphere, orbit Earth and reenter the atmosphere, and land like an
Neil Armstrong went through years of training, which he went through at Indiana’s Purdue University in 1947 with a scholarship from the U.S. Navy. He studied for two years when he was called to active duty, during which time he won his jet pilot wings at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. He was the youngest pilot in his squadron at …show more content…
Afterwards he accepted a job with the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in Cleveland, Ohio. One year later he married Janet Shearon.
Shortly afterwards Armstrong transferred to Edwards Air Force Base in California. He became a skilled test pilot and flew early models of many jet aircrafts. Armstrong was selected as one of the first three NACA pilots to fly the X-17 rocket-engine plane, which he made seven flights in. It was kind of an early model for a future spacecraft. He once set a record altitude of 207,500 feet and a speed of 3,989 miles per hour.
Neil Armstrong then received an invitation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) American Space and Flight program. However he showed little interest in becoming an astronaut. Because his real love was flying airplanes. He was selected as a pilot of the Dynasoar, an experimental craft that could leave the Earth's atmosphere, orbit Earth and reenter the atmosphere, and land like an