I was eight years old, sitting in my parents then watching Armstrong land on the moon. With us was my father‘s father, who had been born before the Wright brothers invented aircraft. I can only imagine what must have been going through his mind at the great technological leaps during his lifetime as he saw Armstrong walk on the moon.
Similar experience here. I was 9. Watched at my grandfather’s house on his black and white tv. His first flight was in a Curtiss Jenny in 1918. His last flight was on a 747. He was born in 1895.