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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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Bow, Rudolph N., Jr.

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Rudolph Norman Bow, Jr.

Preferred Name: Rudy
Date of Birth: October 29, 1940
Highest Military Grade: 0-5 – Lieutenant Colonel
Hometown: Dayton, OH
Headed West Date: May 6, 2021
Biography
Pilot Information
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Rudy Bow graduated from the USAF Academy in 1962 and served in the USAF, flying the F-100 from 1964-1966 with the 10th Tactical Fighter Squadron/50th Tactical Fighter Wing out ofHahn AFB, Germa, and from 1966-1967 with the 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron/401st Tactical Fighter Wing, out of Torrejon AB, Spain.

Units Assigned

  • 1964-1966 10th Tactical Fighter Squadron/50th Tactical Fighter Wing, Hahn AFB, Germany (F-100)
  • 1966-1967 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron/401st Tactical Fighter Wing, Torrejon AB, Spain (F-100)

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Military Education:

  • 1962 USAFA

Rudolph N. Bow, Jr., Maj USAF, Ret., “Headed West” on May 6, 2021.

Rudy Bow was born on October 29, 1940 in Dayton, OH. He graduated from the USAF Academy in 1962 and served in the USAF, flying the F-100 from 1964-1966 with the 10th Tactical Fighter Squadron/50th Tactical Fighter Wing out ofHahn AFB, Germa, and from 1966-1967 with the 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron/401st Tactical Fighter Wing, out of Torrejon AB, Spain.

Rudy “Headed West” on May 6, 2021.

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