I was John Glenn's flight instructor
I was John Glenn's flight instructor - Air Facts Journal
I was John Glenn's instructor! A few observations and cockpit and hangar flying stories. The airplane was a 1986 P Baron which he bought new while in the ...
Ingram > Colonel John Herschel Glenn, Jr. - Marine Corps University
Following pre-flight instruction, he completed primary flight training at the U.S. Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Olathe, Kansas, from 23 August to ...
Biography of John H. Glenn - NASA
From June 1948 to December 1950 Glenn was an instructor in advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. He then attended Amphibious Warfare Training at ...
Glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Md. After graduation, he was project officer on a number of aircraft. He was ...
From June 1948 to December 1950 Glenn was an instructor in advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. He then attended Amphibious Warfare Training at ...
John H. Glenn, Colonel O-6, U.S. Marine Corps - Veteran Tributes
His next assignment was as an instructor pilot at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, where he served until July 1951. Glenn attended amphibious warfare school from July ...
'The Right Stuff' began in Iowa: A tribute to John Glenn
When John Hershel Glenn Jr. shipped into the University of Iowa's Pre-Flight base on a Navy bus he was not especially tall or supremely gifted ...
In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of ...
John Herschel Glenn, Jr., Astronaut (18 July 1921–8 December 2016)
Captain Glenn served as an advanced flight instructor at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, from June 1948 to December 1950. With the Korean War, Glenn ...
Flying with John Glenn | Humanities Texas
Overcoming his parents' fear that he would die in a plane crash, Glenn received free flight training under the new Civilian Pilot Training Program, a thinly ...
Glenn flew 59 missions during World War II. After serving two years as a flight instructor, he volunteered for the Korean War, during which he flew 63 ...
John Glenn > U.S. Navy - All Hands > Display Story
During college, Glenn was able to obtain his private pilot license, achieving a dream that he had always believed to be unobtainable. "This was just prior to ...
An American in Orbit: The Story of John Glenn | Inside Adams
Wanting to fly twin engine Lockheed P-38 fighters, Glenn went to Texas. On the waters of Corpus Christi Bay he practiced flying multi-engine ...
John H. Glenn Jr. - New Mexico Museum of Space History
From June 1948 to December 1950 John Glenn was an instructor in advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. He then attended Amphibious Warfare School at ...
Pioneering Pilot Spotlight: John Glenn - Hartzell Propeller
Glenn was born in 1921 in Cambridge Ohio, the son of a plumber and a school teacher. After graduating high school in 1939, he attended Muskingum ...
John Glenn - San Diego Air & Space Museum
After Korea, Glenn attended the Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and was assigned to the Fighter Design branch of the Navy Bureau of ...
Launching Memories - John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Sen. John Glenn joined an astronaut crew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-95, launched into orbit 25 years ago — on Oct. 29, 1998 — ...
John H. Glenn Jr.: Aviator and Astronaut
In World War II, Glenn volunteered for naval aviation training and became a Marine pilot. He flew 59 combat missions in F4U Corsair fighters and received the ...
John Glenn | Muskingum University
... school. Glenn eventually ... During his time as as a student, he learned to pilot an airplane as a member of a Naval civilian aviation training class.
Be it in a small plane or a space capsule, John Glenn loved to soar
You see, John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95, was a pilot who happened to serve in the Senate. Never mind that no other Ohio politician ever ...