Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
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Re: Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
#2I learned about this from Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1daolaw/rip_bill_and...>. Title edited by me from "WA" to "Washington State".
Besides making history as the first human expedition to the Moon, Apollo 8 produced not one, but two future CEOs of Fortune 500 companies: Anders (General Dynamics) and Frank Borman (Eastern Airlines). Jim Lovell "merely" survived Apollo 13.
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#3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anders
He took the Earthrise photo, which Nature photographer Galen Rowell described as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise
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#4All respect, this guy is was ~91. I’m uncomfortable driving with my mom. As a total layperson, what sort of tests does a person have to pass annually(?) to maintain a pilot’s license? Or is this dude just so O.G. that he was bound to go out living his dream?
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#5I saw the headline earlier, and my first thought was "I hope he was the pilot, because that would be a fitting way to go for a legend." Not only was he the pilot, but he was flying solo at 90 years old.
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#6All respect, this guy is was ~91. I’m uncomfortable driving with my mom. As a total layperson, what sort of tests does a person have to pass annually(?) to maintain a pilot’s license? Or is this dude just so O.G. that he was bound to go out living his dream?
At a minimum, flight reviews every two years. More applicable to a 90yo is keeping a medical.
Re: Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
#7All respect, this guy is was ~91. I’m uncomfortable driving with my mom. As a total layperson, what sort of tests does a person have to pass annually(?) to maintain a pilot’s license? Or is this dude just so O.G. that he was bound to go out living his dream?
Here's a brief guide https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/standards
"Old guy crashes airplane" is a somewhat common occurrence that leads to obvious question if they really should have passed their medical. There's a tendency to not want to be the one to say no, especially if you've known the doctor signing the forms for decades... or if you were a fricken astronaut.
Re: Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
#8All respect, this guy is was ~91. I’m uncomfortable driving with my mom. As a total layperson, what sort of tests does a person have to pass annually(?) to maintain a pilot’s license? Or is this dude just so O.G. that he was bound to go out living his dream?
Pilots in the US need to pass a biennial flight review with a few hours of ground… or add a rating instead. It’s possible he was operating under BasicMed so he may not have needed a recent medical.
Re: Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
#9All respect, this guy is was ~91. I’m uncomfortable driving with my mom. As a total layperson, what sort of tests does a person have to pass annually(?) to maintain a pilot’s license? Or is this dude just so O.G. that he was bound to go out living his dream?
Pilots in the US need to pass a biennial flight review with a few hours of ground… or add a rating instead. It’s possible he was operating under BasicMed so he may not have needed a recent medical.
(But would have needed to self-certify health and maintain a valid driver’s license)
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pilots in the US need to pass a biennial flight review with a few hours of ground… or add a rating instead. It’s possible he was operating under BasicMed so he may not have needed a recent medical.
(But would have needed to self-certify health and maintain a valid driver’s license)
As in, “yup, I’m feeling good enough to fly today” and then pass our nations highly rigorous driving tests :)
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in very good mental+physical condition though. The crash might have nothing to do with age.