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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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Brown, Robert J.

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Robert J. Brown

Preferred Name: Bob
Date of Birth: July 30, 1950
Highest Military Grade: Select
Biography
Pilot Information

From 1959 to May of 1990, Bob worked as the Technical Publications Project Manager at Rockwell. From June 1976 to June of 1980 he also worked as a Chief Flight Instructor at A.C. Aviation. In May 1990, he was promoted to Project Manager at Rockwell while simultaneously serving with the Ohio ANG.

Units Assigned

  • 166th Tactical Fighter Squadron/121st Tactical Fighter Wing, OHANG/ Lockbourne AFB, OH (F-100)

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F-100

Military & Civilian Education

Civilian Education:

  • 1944-1948 Dickinson HS, Jersey City, NJ
  • 1948-1951 Muskingum College, New Concord, OH

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