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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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Paul M. Davis

Preferred Name: Paul
Date of Birth: February 24, 1929
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
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Paul Davis did his F-100 pilot training at Nellis AFB, NV. He was then assigned to Misawa AFB in Japan in 1968. In 1969 he went to Phu Cat AB in Vietnam. Paul was later assigned to HQ at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

 

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  • 1957-1958 Laredo AFB, TX
  • Wethersfield RAFB, England
  • Pilot Training, Nellis AFB, NV (F-100)
  • 12/1968 Misawa AFB, Japan
  • 1989 Phu Cat AB, Vietnam
  • HQ Pentagon, Washington, DC

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