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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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Pinder, Robert Gary

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Robert Gary Pinder

Preferred Name: Gary
Nickname/Call Sign: Eagle
Date of Birth: December 4, 1944
Highest Military Grade: Select
Biography
Pilot Information

Gary Pinder flew the F-100 from 1968-1969 with the 306th Tactical Fighter Squadron out of Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam. He then flew as an ANG pilot until 1979. After, he became a commercial airline pilot for Delta Air Lines.

Units Assigned

  • 1968-1969 306th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam
  • 1969-1971 4758th DSES, Holloman AFB, NM
  • 1971-1972 122nd Tactical Fighter Squadron/NAS New Orleans, LA
  • 1973-1979 128th Tactical Fighter Squadron/Georgia ANG, GA

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Military & Civilian Education

Civilian Education:

  • 1966 The Citadel

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