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Old May 9th 04, 07:46 PM
John Whisenhunt
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"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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How do you know it's a reasonable illumination of this facet, when
it's so filled with other inaccuracies?


Yeah, I know, it's suspect at several levels. While Thompson never talked to
Al, the biblio suggests he talked to enough folks who knew him. I must just
have a very low resonable illumination threshhold.

JW




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Old May 10th 04, 05:13 PM
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Oh yeah there's another one I forgot. On page 332 Thompson relates the
meeting of Al Shepard and Charles Lindbergh, and has them "laughing" at
how Shepard's capsule and "The Spirit of St. Louis" had both been built in
St. Louis.

Some joke indeed, since Lindbergh no doubt knew full well that the
"Spirit" had been designed and built in San Diego, since he was there at
the time and had contracted Ryan to do the job.
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Old May 10th 04, 05:58 PM
Jim Davis
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Rick DeNatale wrote:

Oh yeah there's another one I forgot. On page 332 Thompson
relates the meeting of Al Shepard and Charles Lindbergh, and
has them "laughing" at how Shepard's capsule and "The Spirit
of St. Louis" had both been built in St. Louis.

Some joke indeed, since Lindbergh no doubt knew full well that
the "Spirit" had been designed and built in San Diego, since
he was there at the time and had contracted Ryan to do the
job.


But isn't it possible that Shepard *didn't* know the Spirit had
been built in San Diego and that Lindbergh, being polite, didn't
correct him? Perhaps Shepard and Lindbergh were laughing for
different reasons?

There's no real reason to suppose the incident didn't happen just
because somebody got their facts wrong. Remember President Carter's
"Apollo 2" remarks on the 10th anniversary of Apollo 11.

Jim Davis
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Old May 11th 04, 04:26 PM
Gene DiGennaro
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Jim Davis wrote in message .1.4...
Rick DeNatale wrote:

Oh yeah there's another one I forgot. On page 332 Thompson
relates the meeting of Al Shepard and Charles Lindbergh, and
has them "laughing" at how Shepard's capsule and "The Spirit
of St. Louis" had both been built in St. Louis.

Some joke indeed, since Lindbergh no doubt knew full well that
the "Spirit" had been designed and built in San Diego, since
he was there at the time and had contracted Ryan to do the
job.


But isn't it possible that Shepard *didn't* know the Spirit had
been built in San Diego and that Lindbergh, being polite, didn't
correct him? Perhaps Shepard and Lindbergh were laughing for
different reasons?

There's no real reason to suppose the incident didn't happen just
because somebody got their facts wrong. Remember President Carter's
"Apollo 2" remarks on the 10th anniversary of Apollo 11.

Jim Davis


Reminds me of Pres Johnson and the RS-70 / SR-71 flubbup.
Gene
 




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