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...young widow at a quiet White House ceremony last week, President Eisenhower handed a letter sealed in a pale green envelope and expressing deep personal feeling: "To the President of the U.S. in 1972-76: The recent untimely death of a fine young American-Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., U.S. Air Force-brought a real sense of loss to our nation. In recognition of his many exemplary deeds as a pioneer in advanced aeronautic research, I am making a request which seeks to express, in a small measure, the gratitude of the nation. I request that you consider the merits...
...come tryout flights with the 50,000-lb. engine. At some point in this feeling-out process, the X-15 will be turned over to the Air Force. Then Captain Robert A. White, 34, who became the Air Force's choice as test pilot when his friend Captain Iven Kincheloe Jr. was killed in an F-104 this summer, is scheduled to do the first "maximum-performance" testing. Translated from officialese, this means that, if all goes well, Captain White will be the first man to take the X-15 into empty space, and to bring it back...
Born. To Dorothy Kincheloe, 28, widow of U.S. Air Force Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., holder of an unofficial world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles), who died two months ago in the crash of an F-104 Starfighter (TIME, Aug. 4): a second child, first daughter; in Oakland, Calif. Name: Jeannine Frances. Weight...
Died. Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., 30, U.S.A.F. jet pilot, Korean war ace, holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif...
...Laika. the dog put into orbit in Sputnik II, which reached a maximum distance of 1.056 miles from the earth. Highest U.S. travelers to have survived: two rhesus monkeys, Pat and Mike, sent to an altitude of 37 miles in a U.S. Aerobee rocket in 1952. Highest human: Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., who got to 126,000 ft. (24 miles) in the U.S.A.F.'s X2, for "a couple of minutes" in 1956. * About 38 hours, piled up in hundreds of missions and thousands of maneuvers (flying a Keplerian trajectory or parabolic outside-loop curve in high-speed...