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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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Webb, Michael M.

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Michael M. Webb

Preferred Name: Mike
Nickname/Call Sign: Lopez 57
Date of Birth: June 15, 1939
Highest Military Grade: Select
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Biography
Pilot Information

“First Hun ride was out of Phu Cat . . . just along for a ride ‘cuz I was finishing my tour as a FAC, but my UPT buddy Paul Sheridan coxed me to do it. What a hoot!

We were engaged in stuff I could not imagine and will never tell.”

Mike now teaches swimming at Harper College in Rolling Meadows, IL.

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  • 8/1962 Entered USAF
  • 113th Tactical Fighter Squadron, INANG (F-100)
  • 27th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (F-106)
  • 7/1986 Retired USAF

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Civilian Education:

  • 1961 BA/Psychology & Math, DePauw College

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