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Old May 17th 04, 07:06 PM
Jim Weir
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Add one more pilot to my "Balls Of Brass" book, right in there with Yeager and
Glenn.

Jim



Last
-Thursday, Mike Melvill went into the record books as the first pilot
-to take a privately funded aircraft into space.

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
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