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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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Schoelzel, Hugh V.

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Hugh V. Schoelzel

Preferred Name: Hugh
Date of Birth: November 16, 1943
Highest Military Grade: 0-3 – Captain
Hometown: Glastonbury, CT
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After serving in the USAF, in 1967 Capt. Hugh Schoelzel went on to pilot for Trans World Airlines. In 2000 he was named vice president-corporate safety of Trans World Airlines. At the time he was a Boeing 757/767 captain and chief pilot for the Eastern U.S. He retired in 2004.

Hugh played himself in the short documentary “Dog Fight” released in 2012. He is president of Old Rhineback Aerodome Air Shows. For a 2011  interview with Hugh about the Aerodrome, see https://bfbcommunications.podbean.com/e/ora-podcast-interview-1-w-hugh-schoelzel/

“In his retirement he flew an original version of the English Channel-spanning Bleriot monoplane at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome’s weekly air shows.” (1)

Hugh and his wife Ronnie are known in their community of Litchfield, CT as having an amazing garden and are part of many civic organizations.

Source: (1) https://www.goldsdragoons.com/officers.html

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