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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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Draut, Arthur W.

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Arthur William Draut

Preferred Name: Doc
Date of Birth: February 27, 1948
Highest Military Grade: Select
Hometown: Middletown, OH
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Art Draut served in the USAF for 26 years from 1962-1988. He then became a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ.

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Civilian Education:

  • BS/Physics, Ohio State University-Main Campus
  • 1971 MBA, Auburn University
  • 1976 Ph.D/Physics, Ohio State University-Main Campus

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