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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Neil Armstrong
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Date: 25 Jul 89 00:16:16 GMT
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In article <1116@hcx1.UUCP>, fcs@hardy.harris.com (Fred Sabernick) writes:
> 
> There is a humorous but rather unflattering story about Neil Armstrong in
> Chuck Yeager's autobiography _Yeager_. The gist of the story is that 
> [...Neil does a touch and go on a dry lake and gets stuck in the mud...]

Another story was that he attempted to taxi a Century-series fighter
all the way to the hangar after shutting down the engine.  The only
problem was that the hydraulic system ran off the engine, and there
was only enough pressure to steer into position...but not enough to
operate the brakes.  (And they *told* him not to try it.)

On the other hand, he doesn't seem to have been the type to make a
given mistake more than once.