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HREF="id102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY PHOTOS"><U>CLICK HERE </U></A>TO RETURN TO FAMILY PHOTOS HOME PAGE.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id126.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TEXT 1959"><U>TEXT 1959</U></A></div> <div> TEXT 1960</div> <div> <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TEXT 1961"><U>TEXT 1961</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id178.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PHOTOS 1959"><U>PHOTOS 1959</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id179.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PHOTOS 1960"><U>PHOTOS 1960</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id180.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PHOTOS 1961"><U>PHOTOS 1961</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#99CC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> TEXT 1960</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="f152ccf0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="207" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="f160b080.png" border=0 width="11" height="8" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1960 Was a pretty good year as years go.  Myrtle moved down from Bremerton to live with us.  Ordinarily a man is not happy at all having his mother-in-law move in with him but I sure was.  That move enabled La Vonne to go back to work at Edwards AFB.  This time she worked in a super classified job at the main hanger where the X-15 was being built and tested.  Her job was to order parts.  She got to see it rolled out of the hanger, mounted under the belly of a B-52 and and then released and flown to the threshold of space.  She said it was the most interesting job she ever had.</FONT></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="667" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 59 WIDTH="663"><div> <I><B>X - 15</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <I>Hypersonic Research </I></div> <div> <I>at the Edge of Space</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> This joint program by NASA, the Air Force, the Navy, and North American operated the most remarkable of all the rocket research aircraft. Composed of an internal structure of titanium and a skin surface of a chrome-nickel alloy known as Inconel X, the X-15 had its first, unpowered glide flight on June 8, 1959, while the first powered flight took place on September 17, 1959. Because of the large fuel consumption of its rocket engine, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at about 45,000 ft and speeds upward of 500 mph. The airplane first set speed records in the Mach 4-6 range with Mach 4.43 on March 7, 1961; Mach 5.27 on June 23, 1961; Mach 6.04 on November 9, 1961; and Mach 6.7 on October 3, 1967. It also set an altitude record of 354,200 feet (67 miles) on August 22, 1963, and provided an enormous wealth of data on hypersonic air flow, aerodynamic heating, control and stability at hypersonic speeds, reaction controls for flight above the atmosphere, piloting techniques for reentry, human factors, and flight instrumentation. The highly successful program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo piloted spaceflight programs as well as the Space Shuttle program. The program's final flight was performed on October 24, 1968<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> I have not previously inserted anything into my accounts of what we did on a given year but I just couldn't resist this paragraph and photo.  Especially since it has now been declassified.</div> <bR> <div> As for me I was still going to Antelope Valley College full time days and working full time graveyard plus in 1960 I undertook to put in a lawn in front and in back of the house and build a fence across the back and down one side.  Dumb me I dug the whole yard up with a pick and shovel then put in my fertilizer and then drug the yard with a railroad tie that I connected a chain to and pulled it like an oxen.  Pulling it the first three feet or so wasn't too bad but when I did that for hours at a time I found I had to go to the Doctor.  He almost put me in the hospital and was talking hernia.  As it turned out all I had to do was not pull that dammed railroad tie for a while.</div> <bR> <div> During the course of 1960 I succeeded in getting the two main jobs done besides my other obligations.</div> <bR> <div> Maggie and Luther came by on their way to Germany.  He was driving a near new 1959 Rambler which was financed.  Bob still had his 1955 Ford Crown Victoria that he had bought new and was paid for.  Luther wanted to take a car with him to Germany but it had to be free and clear and Luther still owed money on the Rambler.  Luther some how ended up with Bob's Ford and I ended up with Luther's Rambler.  I just don't remember what Bob ended up with out of that deal but that was when he bought his new Ford Pick Up.  I drove the Rambler for a couple years while Luther finished paying for it then he told me to sell it for him.  I sold it to another Deputy.  I had never had any trouble with the car at all it always ran great, but when I sold it I guess it just disintegrated and the Deputy I sold it to never was my friend again.</div> <bR> <div> I also had a 1955 Ford, but mine was a Station Wagon that was more or less a piece of junk.  For one thing it needed paint real bad.  Lacking funds for an Earl Shibe $69.00 paint job I decided to paint it myself.  I was sanding on it in my driveway when a car stopped and Chuck Marler got out to see what I was doing.  When he found out that I didn't know squat about painting cars or anything else for that matter he instructed me on how to sand it properly then he sprayed it for me.  It still didn't look much like a factory paint job but Chuck became my lifelong friend.  Chuck was also a Deputy at Mira Loma but he was on the day shift.  I had seen him around but didn't know him until the paint job came up.  Chuck lived just around the corner from us about a block from our house so we began to always include each other on cook-outs and the like.  Chuck also had a professional barber chair set up in his garage and cut hair for many on the Mira Loma Deputies, including me.  As I recall he only charged a buck or so for a haircut.  Somehow he never got into trouble for cutting hair without a license.  See there a lot of things that I should have taken pictures of and didn't. </div> <bR> <div> As for me I was still going to Antelope Valley College full time days and working full time graveyard plus in 1960 I undertook to put in a lawn in front and in back of the house and build a fence across the back and down one side.  Dumb me I dug the whole yard up with a pick and shovel then put in my fertilizer and then drug the yard with a railroad tie that I connected a chain to and pulled it like an oxen.  Pulling it the first three feet or so wasn't too bad but when I did that for hours at a time I found I had to go to the Doctor.  He almost put me in the hospital and was talking hernia.  As it turned out all I had to do was not pull that dammed railroad tie for a while.</div> <bR> <div> During the course of 1960 I succeeded in getting the two main jobs done besides my other obligations.</div> <bR> <div> Maggie and Luther came by on their way to Germany.  He was driving a near new 1959 Rambler which was financed.  Bob still had his 1955 Ford Crown Victoria that he had bought new and was paid for.  Luther wanted to take a car with him to Germany but it had to be free and clear and Luther still owed money on the Rambler.  Luther some how ended up with Bob's Ford and I ended up with Luther's Rambler.  I just don't remember what Bob ended up with out of that deal but that was when he bought his new Ford Pick Up.  I drove the Rambler for a couple years while Luther finished paying for it then he told me to sell it for him.  I sold it to another Deputy.  I had never had any trouble with the car at all it always ran great, but when I sold it I guess it just disintegrated and the Deputy I sold it to never was my friend again.</div> <bR> <div> I also had a 1955 Ford, but mine was a Station Wagon that was more or less a piece of junk.  For one thing it needed paint real bad.  Lacking funds for an Earl Shibe $69.00 paint job I decided to paint it myself.  I was sanding on it in my driveway when a car stopped and Chuck Marler got out to see what I was doing.  When he found out that I didn't know squat about painting cars or anything else for that matter he instructed me on how to sand it properly then he sprayed it for me.  It still didn't look much like a factory paint job but Chuck became my lifelong friend.  Chuck was also a Deputy at Mira Loma but he was on the day shift.  I had seen him around but didn't know him until the paint job came up.  Chuck lived just around the corner from us about a block from our house so we began to always include each other on cook-outs and the like.  Chuck also had a professional barber chair set up in his garage and cut hair for many on the Mira Loma Deputies, including me.  As I recall he only charged a buck or so for a haircut.  Somehow he never got into trouble for cutting hair without a license.  See there a lot of things that I should have taken pictures of and didn't. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>