Jun 12 1962
From The Space Library
X-15 No. 3 research airplane flown to an altitude of 180,000 ft. and a speed of 3,445 mph. (mach 5) by Maj. Robert M. White (USAF). Primary objective of flight was checkout of X-15 with adaptive control system.
Piloting a NASA F-106 supersonic jet airplane from Pope AFB, N.C., Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom notified Jacksonville, Fla., air route traffic control center that his Tacan radio navigation aid had gone out. Flying above clouds and around thunderstorms, Grissom began operating an emergency radio beacon signal and was directed to a safe landing under a thunderstorm at Patrick AFB by Miami air traffic control center.
FAA disclosed that a tiny cotter pin and a bolt less than an inch long may have caused the March 1 disaster-95 people killed in Boeing 707 jet airliner seconds after takeoff from Idlewild Airport.
USAF C-123 transport fitted for aerial spray operations returned to Langley AFB, Va., after spraying 17,000 acres of Iran and Afghanistan to bring locust plague under control.
Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser was among those visitors "intrigued" by Mercury capsule FRIENDSHIP 7, on display in Cairo. "How do you get out of the thing?" President Nasser reportedly asked.
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