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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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Tucker, Richard G.

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Richard G. Tucker

Preferred Name: Richard
Nickname/Call Sign: Tuck
Date of Birth: November 29, 2022
Highest Military Grade: 0-5 – Lieutenant Colonel
Biography
Pilot Information

In the USAF, Richard “Tuck” Tucker was a Flight CC, Squadron Operations Officer, Squadron Commander, Operations Group Commander, Instructor Pilot, Command Pilot. . He was also an 0-1 FAC in Viet Nam from 1969-1970.

Tuck had multiple deployments world wide: Vietnam, Korea, Panama, Alaska, Australia, Denmark, Slovenia, Germany, Turkey and Iraq.

After serving in the Air Force, he became a Senior Military Analyst for Raytheon from 9/1999 -12/2001 at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory in Mesa, AZ.  Later, from 12/2000 – 10/2008 he was a Program Manager for Scientific Research Corporation at Kirtland AFB, NM.

Units Assigned

  • 1973 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron/150th Tactical Fighter Group (F-100)
  • 1974-1978 174th Tactical Fighter Squadron/185th Tactical Fighter Group, Sioux City, IA
  • 1978-1999 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron/140th Tactical Fighter Group, Buckley ANGB, CO

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Flight Info

F-100D
A-7D
F-16C

Flight Hours: 5600 hours flight time, 600 hours combat

Military & Civilian Education

Military Education:

  • 1984-1985 USAF Air Command and Staff College
  • 1995-1996 Air War College

Civilian Education:

  • 1964-1967 BS/Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
  • 1975-1977 MS/Psychology (Psychotherapy), University of South Dakota

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