1976, July 2 – National Mall Outside the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution – Washington, DC – Gerald R. Ford, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Warren Burger, S. Dillon Ripley, Michael Collins, Others – standing, watching robot arm cut ribbon after receiving signal from VIKING Spacecraft – Bicentennial Event – Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Dedication of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution- Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Director, Air and Space Museum
Today in History – March 12, 1967 and 1971 – 1Lt Joe Adrian and 1LT Clive Jeffs both MIA
Two F-100 pilots lost 4 years apart. On this day in 1967, 1st Lieutenant Joseph Daniel “Joe” Adrian flying F-100D #55-3611 was on a night scramble from the Tuy Hoa Runway, Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam. About six miles from the end of the runway over the South China Sea, his aircraft crashed. First Lieutenant