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
Athos “Reb” Guillot Reb graduated in USAFA in 1960 and USAF Pilot training, Class 62B, at both Luke AFB, AZ, and Nellis AFB, NV. He was with the 614 TFS at England AFB from ’62-‘65, and later at Wheelus AB, Libya.
He flew fighters throughout his 23-year USAF career and proudly served as a squadron commander of the 354 TFS at Davis-Monthan AFB, flying A-7D’s. After completing NATO Defense College in Rome, Reb was assigned director of fighter operations at Headquarters, Allied Air Forces Central Europe.
After his retirement from the military, Reb continued to add to the national defense at Hughes Aircraft/Raytheon as an engineer.
