Written by Rachelle Haughn
For Neil Armstrong, it all started with model airplanes.
As seen in the June 2019 issue of Model Aviation.
Neil Armstrong TM used with permission from the Purdue Research Foundation.
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It began with a trip to a small-town dime store in Ohio when he was roughly 3 years old. He asked his mother for an airplane. According to his biography, when faced with a choice between a 10¢ and a 20¢ airplane, she bought him the latter. How could she say no to…
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