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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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Broker, Joseph G.

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Joseph G. Broker

Preferred Name: Joe
Date of Birth: July 22, 1948
Highest Military Grade: Select
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
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Joe Broker – Excerpted from an interview with AOPA after flying Dean Cuttshall’s F-100 at Ft. Wayne…

“It’s always been my favorite airplane. I guess it was my first fighter. It’s not an easy airplane to fly. You have to work at it to fly it well. I guess a lot of pilots have a love affair with their first jet aircraft. For me, it was always “the one”. It was an early 2nd generation of fighter aircraft it had a lot of bad habits. If you were trained well, and you respected it, you could fly it. It could bite you. It could kill you.

I came right out of pilot training, into the F-100, younger than most of the people, plus the Guard had the airplane after the active duty, well into the 1970s. So, the Guard guys will be younger.

I still fly with the Commemorative Air Force, I fly B-24, B-29, B-25 as the main airplanes and then some of the little ones, PT-19.”

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  • 1970-1977 175th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Sioux Falls, SD (F-100)

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Broker Joe Flying At Ft. Wayne
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Joe Broker talking with AOPA about the F-100 – https://aopalive.aopa.org/detail/video/5583125430001/joe-broker

Joe getting a fun ride; https://fb.watch/mv9eHtu2W-/

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