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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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David W. Thomson

Preferred Name: Dave
Nickname/Call Sign: Misty 149
Date of Birth: November 17, 1937
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
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Dave Thomson retired in 1989, went to work for Boeing as a Division Safety Manager for 5 years, then moved to Colorado when he accepted a teaching position with the Southern California Safety Institute (the old USC Safety school that many of us attended while on active duty).

He fully retired as of the first of 2004 to Cañon City, Colorado, and is enjoying travelling, golf, and boating.

They have a winter place in the Rio Grande Valley (from Misty FACs where are they today)

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  • 9/1968-6/1969 121 Tactical Fighter Squadron/113th Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach AFB, SC
  • 6/1969-6/1970 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron/31st Tactical Fighter Wing, Commando Sabre, Tuy Hoa AB, RVN

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