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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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Bart Edelen

Preferred Name: Bart
Date of Birth: November 25, 1944
Highest Military Grade: 0-3 – Captain
Hometown: La Plata, MD
Bart Edelen - before
Bart Edelen - now
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Bart Edelen spent 21 years as an airline pilot with Eastern and Evergreen Airlines. He says his “Most vivid memories of my flying career are of flying the F-100, and of flying in and out of Kuwait with 50+ oil wells burning.”

He’s currently “semi-retired and hunting the Eastern wild turkey every chance I get; I would love to hunt for a Merriam’s turkey with a fellow Hun driver.”

Units Assigned

  • 1967 121st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 113th Tactical Fighter Group,  DCANG,
  • 1968 USAF flight school, Webb AFB, TX (T-41, T-37, T-38)
  • 1969 Flight school-Andrews AFB, VA (F-100)
  • 1970 Land survival training, Fairchild AFB, WA
  • 1971 Sea survival training, Homestead AFB, FL
  • 1973 Flight school-Fairchild AFB, WA (F-105)
  • 1991 USAF civilian Desert Shield and Desert Storm medal, flying men and supplies in and out of Kuwait as Airline Capt. for Evergreen Airlines (B-727)

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Flight Info

T-41
T-37
T-38
F-100
F-105
B-727

Military & Civilian Education

Civilian Education:

  • East Carolina University

Edelen, Bart With Turkey
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