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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Mol, William D.

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William D. Mol Preferred Name: William Nickname/Call Sign: Hawk Date Of Birth: June 14, 1929 Highest Military Grade Held: Colonel, O6 Hometown: Austin, TX [ult_tab_element tab_style="Style_6" tab_title_color="#ffffff" tab_background_color="#1a1c43" tab_hover_title_color="#ffffff" tab_hover_background_color="#6b0202" acttab_title="#ffffff" acttab_background="#6b0202" tabs_border_radius="5" shadow_color="#000000" enable_bg_color="rgba(40,40,40,0.04)"][single_tab title="Biography" tab_id="56f207c7-8495-09145-8fd8b941-7651"] Biography "Here's to the boys who fly high in the sky!" "Hawk" Mol flew 100 combat missions during the Korean War in F-80's [...]

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Couch, Darrel B.

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Darrel B. Couch Preferred Name: Darrel Nickname/Call Sign: Eagle Eye Date Of Birth: August 31, 1938 Highest Military Grade Held: Major, (04) Hometown: Hot Springs, AR [ult_tab_element tab_style="Style_6" tab_title_color="#ffffff" tab_background_color="#1a1c43" tab_hover_title_color="#ffffff" tab_hover_background_color="#6b0202" acttab_title="#ffffff" acttab_background="#6b0202" tabs_border_radius="5" shadow_color="#000000" enable_bg_color="rgba(40,40,40,0.04)"][single_tab title="Biography" tab_id="56f207c7-8495-09145-8fd845e3-9ca7"] Biography In 1914, my father was born on the family farm about 10 miles (an all-day round trip wagon ride) west

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