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 E. Webb Preferred Name: Dave Nickname/Call Sign: Dave Date Of Birth: 04-27-1942 Highest Military Grade Held: 15 Hometown: Toledo, Ohio Civilian Education University of Toledo Units Assigned 180TFG OANG 136TFS NYANG Military Education USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training '63-'64 Comments USAF Pilot Training, '63-'64 F-84F's, OANG '63-'66 F-100C's, NYANG '66-'69 Recalled to active duty in '68. Assigned to [...]

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