Hoffers and Brady discuss checking pilots, water salutes. celebrity passengers (including the Pope), Lego sets, and the famous Gimli Glider incident.

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Best Pilot I Ever Saw clip from The Right Stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPkIgBqMCY

The Right Stuff (book) - https://amzn.to/4w67wf5  The Right Stuff (movie) - https://amzn.to/4uW5wVW

Episode 1 including our discussion of water salutes - https://www.runway23.fm/episodes/001

Hoffers pictures with celebrity passengers (Patreon) - https://www.patreon.com/Runway23/posts/162145907

Neil Armstrong ejects from the flying bedstead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJDbj9Vp5w

List of lunar modules (including Snoopy for Apollo 10) - https://historicspacecraft.com/Lunar_Module.html

Hoffers chosen Lego sets (Amazon affiliate links where possible) 
Lunar Module - https://amzn.to/4gHd1fQ
Enterprise - https://amzn.to/4oP7ohy
Shuttle and 747 - https://amzn.to/4aGXb1d
Space Shuttle - https://amzn.to/3QlbUIc
Concorde - https://amzn.to/4be151x

Hoffers Lego video will be on Patreon shortly - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23

Air Crash episode about the Gimli Glider - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216433/ (have also seen it uploaded to YouTube)

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