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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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Charles Hugh Smith

Preferred Name: Charlie
Nickname/Call Sign: Whispering/Misty 38
Date of Birth: February 8, 1938
Highest Military Grade: 0-3 – Captain
Hometown: Weinert, TX
Headed West Date: March 23, 2015
Biography
Pilot Information
Headed West

“Charlie “Whispering” Smith became an evangelical preacher.  He retired from the ministry in 2000 and lived since then in a secure assisted living facility near his wife, Kay. He flew west on 23 March 2015.”

Source: https://mistyvietnam.com/the-men/where-are-they-today/

Units Assigned

  • 1962 Pilot training
  • 55th Fighter Squadron, England
  • 55th Fighter Squadron, Vietnam
  • 1/1968-5/1968 Detachment 1, 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, “Misty 38”, Vietnam (F-100)

Awards & Decorations

Silver Star
Silver Star
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Flight Info

F-100

Military & Civilian Education

Civilian Education:

  • Mattson High School
  • McMurray College, Abilene, TX
  • Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX

Charles “Whispering” Smith, Misty 38, “Headed West” on March 23, 2015.

Charles Hugh “Whispering” Smith, F-100 pilot and Misty 38 from Jan – May 1968, flew west on 23 March 2015 in Burleson, Texas.

Hugh was born in Weinert, Feb. 8, 1938, to parents Henry and Hazel Smith. He attended Mattson High School and McMurray College in Abilene. He later graduated from Texas Tech in Lubbock. Hugh joined the U.S. Air Force where he became a pilot. He was a member of the Misty Program which was an elite group of fighter pilots. He received the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters.

Hugh entered the ministry in 1972 traveling throughout the United States teaching people how to live Christian lives.

Survivors include Hugh’s  Wife of 55 years, Kay; sons, Michael (Teri), Gary (Leigh), Ed; daughter, Diana Lee Smith and her son, Trevor Lee Allen; other grandchildren, Daniel, Cody, Megan, Lauren; sister, Myrtle Pate; brothers, Don, Fred, David; many other extended family and friends.

He is buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Ft. Worth, TX

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