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
Rod M. Hofman, SSS Member, “Headed West” on October 29, 2021.
Sequim resident Rodney Marland Hofman died from natural causes at Dungeness Courte Memory Care in Sequim.
He was 88.
A graveside funeral was held on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, WA.
Sequim Valley Funeral Chapel, Sequim, was in charge of arrangements.
www.sequimvalleychapel.com