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Today in History – December 5, 1956 – The “Snark” disappears and is found 27 years later (maybe).

5 December 1956 – A Northrop XSM-62 Snark, 53-8172, N-69D test model, fitted with a new 24-hour stellar inertial guidance system, launches from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida. It wanders off-course, ignores destruct command, disappears over Brazil. It is found by a farmer in January 1983. The Day They Lost the Snark   By J.

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Richard D. Davis

Preferred Name: Rick
Date of Birth: August 22, 1934
Highest Military Grade: Select
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Rick Davis flew the F-100 from 1957-1959 with the 4515th CCTS out of  Luke AFB, AZ and from 1959-1962 out of Wheelus Air Base, Libya.

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  • 1957-1959 4515th CCTS, Luke AFB, AZ
  • 1959-1962 Wheelus Air Base, Libya
  • 1962-1965 428th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Cannon AFB, NM
  • 1965-1966 4515th CCTS Luke AFB, AZ
  • 1968-1969 4516th & 4515th CCTS Luke AFB, AZ
  • 1971-1973 MAAG Taiwan 3rd & 4th CAF wings

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