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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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Myers, Charles W.

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Charles W. Myers

Preferred Name: Tony
Date of Birth: October 21, 1929
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
Hometown: Quincy, IL
Biography
Pilot Information

“Attended the first F-100 class of the USAF FighterWeapons School in 1958 and stayed on as an IP/Academic Inst/R&D Test Pilot until 1961.

Served in PACAF HQ-TAC HQPENTAGON-US M,AAG Ethiopia. While at PACAF worked in Fighter OPS and also in the movement control center that was responsible for moving all the aircraft to SEASIA. At TAC I was Director of Fighter REQs/Director of ARMAMENT/AVIONICS/Director of PROGRAMS/REQS.I also chaired the TAC source selection committee for the AX and the GAU-8.

In the Pentagon I worked in Fighter OPS and processed 113 JCS papers(A RECORD) was responsible for the rules -of-engagement and did the target selections and briefed the Chief of Staff on Air Force selections before he went to the JCS for final selection.
In Ethiopia I was directed to build them an AirForce of F-5Es/TPS 43 Radars and an Air Defense system against the Somolias.

My last 7 years of my 34 years of active duty was spent at 9AF Shaw AFB. I sat in as Chief of Staff and then Headed up the 9AF READY TEAM and converted 78 SQS-ACTIVE, GUARD, and RESERVE to F-15s, F-16s, A10s, A-7s, F-4s, and C-130s.

Units Assigned

  • 1957 563Tactical Fighter Squadron/38th Fighter Bomber Wing, Etain France (F-86/F-100)
  • 1958 306th and 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron/31stTactical Fighter Wing, Weapons officer,  Turner AFB, GA (F-100)
  • 1958 -1961 INST USAF,  Fighter Weapons Squadron, (F-100)
  • 1961-1964 Stan Eval, 531 Tactical Fighter Squadron/416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 39th AD, Misawa AB Japan (F-100)
  • 308th Tactical Fighter Squadron/311th Fighter Wing, England AFB, LA (F-100)
  • 9th Air Force, Chief of Staff/9 AF Ready Team,  Shaw AF, SC  (F-15, F-16, A-10, A-7, F-4, and C-130)

Awards & Decorations

Flight Info

F-100
F-15
F-16
A-10
A-7
F-4
C-130

Military & Civilian Education

Military Education:

  • SOS, EWS, ACADEMIC INST
  • Armed Forces Staff College
  • Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Civilian Education:

  • Quincy High School
  • Armstrong College
  • University of Maryland
  • BGS Bootstrap- University of Nebraska-Omaha

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