| Among them was 81-year-old Calpin, who served as an able seaman with the Royal Navy during the Normandy landings. |
| He was wounded and decorated for bravery in a vicious battle five days after the landings. |
| The Surveyor lunar landers followed in the late 1960s, which dramatically helped in the site selection for the Apollo landings. |
| I taxi back for two more take-offs and landings, the last with the left engine at 15-inches and 1500 rpm to simulate an engine failure. |
| The men created a world of their own on the docks, levees, plantation landings, city quays, and steamboat decks of the Mississippi River economy. |
| Over the next several years, I remember it experienced two wheels-up landings from hard landing practice with students. |
