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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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Sarchet, Robert A.

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Robert A. Sarchet

Preferred Name: Bob
Nickname/Call Sign: Bob
Date of Birth: July 8, 1935
Highest Military Grade: 0-3 – Captain
Hometown: Fort Lupton, CO
Robert Sarchet - before
Robert Sarchet - now
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I flew for Continental Airlines from 1966 retiring in 1995. We live in Longmont Colorado and I now manage the Family Farms.

I still run up to ½ Marathons in just over 2 hours and weight the same 165 lbs that I weighed when I left Vietnam in 1966.

Make up your mind, never operate in AB with the Boards down.

Units Assigned

  • 1959 Lackland AFB Texas
  • 1960 Malden Missouri AB Pilot Training T34 T28
  • 1960 Greenville AFB Mississippi Pilot Training T33
  • 1961 CCTS Luke AFB Arizona F100 Training C,D and F
  • 1961 Nellis AFB Nevada F100 Training
  • 1961 George AFB California 306 TFS, TDY Aviano AB Italy F100
  • 1962 George AFB California 308 TFS,TDY Aviano AB Italy F100
  • 1962 Ramstein AB Germany 417th TFS “ Fighter Pilots Heaven” F100
  • 1965 McConnell AFB Kansas F105
  • 1965 TDY Bien Hoa AB Vietnam Skoshi Tiger F5 Combat Evaluation
  • 1966 I left The USAF

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F-100

Military & Civilian Education

  • SOS
  • BS in Agriculture Colorado State University

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