Armstrong’s 1st flight marked
WARREN — It was 90 years ago this summer that a young Neil Armstrong missed church one Sunday to take his first flight in a metal airplane off Parkman Road in Warren. More than 70 people gathered Sunday afternoon at the Neil Armstrong Lunar Module site, where a special tribute took place to acknowledge not only Armstrong’s first flight on July 26, 1936, but also his landing on the moon on July 20, 1969. Children had the opportunity to make and decorate paper airplanes and color pictures of Armstrong as a boy with his dad. The public also enjoyed bright orange Tang and a variety ...
