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This Day in History – June 10, 1969 – The X-15 gets a place in history

10 June 1969: The U.S. Air Force donated the first North American Aviation X-15, serial number 56-6670, to the Smithsonian Institution for display at the National Air and Space Museum. The first of three X-15A hypersonic research rocketplanes built by North American for the Air Force and the National Advisory Committee (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), 56-6670 made the first glide flight and

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Baitis, Friedhelm U.

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Friedhelm U. Baitis

Preferred Name: Fried
Date of Birth: November 30, 1946
Highest Military Grade: Select
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Friedhelm Baitis entered the USAF in 1968 after finishing his BS in Biology in 1968 at the University of Oregon. He served with the USAF for 20 years and then flew as a pilot with United Airlines.

Fried and his wife Anita are busy having fun flying his Supercub and glider in California. They consider themselves living in paradise, and “the luckiest people in the world.” (1)

 

(1) Source: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/6/6681/files/2014/03/news05-1uurcco.pdf

Units Assigned

  • 1970 RTU Luke AFB, AZ
  • 1970-1971 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Phan Rang AB, Vietnam (F-100)

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Civilian Education:

  • 1968 BS/Biology, University of Oregon

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