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
I had the distinction of ferrying one of the first F-100C models to USAFE (Bitburg AB, Germany) in May of 1955, and bringing one of the last two F-100D’s (Tail # 508) back from Southeast Asia (Ping Tung, Taiwan) to the USANG unit at Hulman Field, Terre Haute, Indiana in October 1971.
After retirement, I moved my family to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and began employment with a local architect/planning firm. From 1972 until 1997 I worked as a military master planner preparing master plans for US Army and US Air Force installations worldwide. Since 1997 I have been completely retired and play golf and build model ships of the “Square Rigger” era.
