I have put together the first SSS.com monthly video interview with Jim LaChance and Bob Kruse, taken at Dayton. Unfortunately near the end I got my finger in front of the microphone and the sound is a bit weird, but you can still get the drift – will interview more SSS members in Tucson for future videos and they will be better. Shep
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