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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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Turner, Norman M.

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Norman Morris Turner

Preferred Name: Norm
Nickname/Call Sign: Norm
Date of Birth: August 2, 1946
Highest Military Grade: 0-5 – Lieutenant Colonel
Hometown: Palo Alto, CA
Norman Turner - before
Biography
Pilot Information

Attended Law school after that starting at age 40 – 1978-1994- Was a criminal trial lawyer and later a criminal trial judge – Did every sort of case from DUI to First Degree Murder both as an attorney and a judge.

End of 1994, retired from bench, took 40 foot sailboat “Silver Star” to Mexico for 3 + years. Returned boat to San Diego in 1998. Sold boat and moved to Florida in 2001.

Now I write stuff, play guitar and banjo and sing.

Units Assigned

  • Aviation Cadets, Stallings Field, Kinston, NC (T-34, T-28)
  • Jet Basic, Greenville AFB, MS (T-33)
  • 1957 Primary Flying School (F-100)
  • 1958 Advanced Gunnery School (F-100)
  • 1958-1961 4504th Fighter Squadron Luke AFB, AZ(F-84F)
  • 97th Fighter Squadron, Nellis AFB, NV (F-100A)
  • 1961-1965 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron/48th Tactical Fighter Wing, Chaumont, France and RAF Lakenheath, UK
  • 1961-1965 522nd Tactical Fighter Squadron/27th Tactical Fighter Wing, Cannon AFB, NM
  • 1965-1967 481st Tactical Fighter Squadron/27th Tactical Fighter Wing, Cannon AFB,  NM
  • 1965 Saigon, SVN (127 combat missions)
  • 1966-1967 RTU instructor
  • 1967 45th Tactical Fighter Squadron, MacDill AFB, (F-4C/D)
  • 1967-68 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron/366th TFW, Danang AB, RVN (F-4 C/D – 208 combat missions
    (335 total combat missions both tours, not counting about 40 missions I flew with FACs and
    Army armed Hueys in 1965 on my off days.)
  • 1968-1971 80th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Yokota AB, Japan, (F-4C)
    Nuke alert at Osan and Kunsan, Korea. Went to Wild Weasel school and was Chief Weasel of PACAF WW IV at Yokota.
  • 1971-1973 4435th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, George AFB, CA (F-4 C/D/E) Slatted E, Thunderbird E. 35th TFW, Chief of Weapons and Tactics – Flew with 20th. Worked for Larry Welsh and Jack Chain as DO’s – Made LC in spite of everything.
  • 1974-75 20th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron,  Ops Officer,  George AFB, CA (F-4 – all the above plus F-4F – German squadron)
  • 25th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Udorn RAFB, Thailand
  • 1976 Retired USAF

Awards & Decorations

Flight Info

F-84F
F-100A
F-4 C/D/E/F

Military & Civilian Education

Military Education:

  • Gunnery school
  • Advanced Gunnery school
  • 1958 USAF Survival School
  • 1963 Deep Sea Survival School
  • 1964 USAF Fighter Weapons School
  • 1967 Jungle Survival School
  • 1972 Deep Sea Survival School
  • 1972 Wild Weasel School, (F-4C)

Civilian Education:

  • 1954 Palo Alto Senior High School
  • 1955 Menlo College (baseball scholarship)
  • 1975 AA, Victor Valley Junior College
  • 1978 BA/Legal Science, Western State College of Law
  • 1979 JD, Western State College of Law

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