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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...m.p.h.. it peaked into a graceful arc. seemed to hover uncertainly for a brief moment, then hurtled downward. Minutes later, its tail skids carved a high rooster tail of dust in the wind-slicked silt of Rogers Dry Lake in California. The plane stopped. "Well." said Test Pilot Joe Walker as he threw off the switches in the cockpit, "there's that one for today." In his X-15, Walker had just streaked to a new altitude record for manned planes: 246.700 ft.-46.7 miles above the earth...
...heights last week was hardly more dramatic than Walker's career. Since 1945. when he joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (it was then called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), Joseph Albert Walker. 41, has flown more hot planes than any other test pilot. Walker has taken the X series. beginning with the X-1 through a hair-raising number of tests, nearly quadrupling speed and altitude records...
...says, "there was a lot of foot-draggin' on the way. I kept wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally, in a yellow, two-seat Piper Cub. The pilot kept me up there for half an hour, lettin' me take the stick and whip us through a few turns and glides. After that first ride, there wasn't any doubt what I was goin...
Names & Numbers. He did it first in a P-38 fighter in World War II. A weather reconnaissance pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, Walker flew 58 missions over German-held territory around the Black Sea. Austria and Southern France...
...sports of riding, squash, golf and swimming, which he no longer has time for, and dressed in freshly pressed suntans, had breakfast with his attractive wife, the former Elizabeth Conner of Ewing, Neb. Arriving at Saigon airport at 8 a.m., Harkins climbed into his small L23 transport and the pilot took off, cruising at 13,000 ft. above the rubber plantations in the rolling foothills north of Saigon...