Соктарить ! самое главное выделить в этом he was a very normal boy with ordinary friends and activities. he did not care for sports he was much happier in his cluttered room full of technical magazines and adventure books, with airplane models dangling from the ceiling. neil did well in school and shone in subjects that were right for his future career mathematics and science. he still had time after school to play his horn in the band to study calculus and to earn some money. where he lived, children were encour aged to go to work at an early age it was the natural thing to do. at seven neil was mowing the grass in the cemetery for ten cents an hour. later he made as much as forty cents an hour working in local stores, making doughnuts in a bakery or helping the mechanics at the local airfield. he saved his earnings very patiently, it took a long time to collect the nine dollars that would pay for an hour of flying instruction. as soon as he had the money, neil ran to the airport. on his 16th birthday the first day it was legal he received his pilot's license, if anything could have stopped him from becoming a flyer, it would have been at that time, when another student pilot, a friend of his , was killed in his plane. but after two days in his room, neil came out with his plans unchanged
