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
John Robert Hartmann was born and raised in Detroit, MI, and Mountain Lakes, NJ. He attended a Rutgers University graduating with a degree in geology.
The earth sciences gave way to a love of the sky above and he became a fighter pilot with the US Air Force. After a tour of duty in Vietnam, Jack left the service. He became a flight engineer with TWA and survived the myriad of layoffs becoming one of the airline’s top captains. He flew with the Air National Guard in Tucson until his retirement.
1968-1999 TWA pilot – Furloughed 3 times (hired full time at Tucson ANG – thanks BVD!)
1988 A-7 LANA flying around at night at 200’-500’ with my hair on fire using FLIR – whew!
1989-1990 A-7 FWS IP Rich Rose CC
While AZ ANG HQ puke created JACKAL MOA (see southern AZ) – Airspace is power!!!
All my takeoffs equal all my landings……………
BTW Cass, I don’t tint my hair
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