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

Sager, Walter C.

Walter Charles Sager

Preferred Name: Walt

Date of Birth: September 29, 1930

Highest Military Grade: 0-5 – Lieutenant Colonel

Headed West Date: August 10, 2014

Lt. Col. Walter C. Sager was a US Air Force pilot awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 15 Air Medals, and a Commendation Medal for his service in Vietnam. His family called him a “courageous man of honor and integrity.”