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June 30, 1978: The Rutan Model 40 Defiant, a four-seat,
June 30, 1968: The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy made its first flight at twin-engine homebuilt aircraft with the engines in a push-
Marietta, Ga. Chief Engineering Test Pilot Leo J. Sullivan and test pull configuration, makes its first flight. It was designed
June 26, 1962: The RS-70 crew escape capsule for pilot Walter E. Hensleigh, flight engineer Jerome H. Edwards, and E. by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan for the Rutan Aircraft
the XB-70 was successfully ejected from a modified Mittendorf, flight test engineer, made up the flight crew. U.S. Air Force Factory. The prototype Defiant, N78RA was intended as a
pod carried by a B-58 at 20,000 feet. This marked the test pilot Lt. Col. Joseph S. Schiele was also on board. One year later, proof-of-concept of a very safe light twin design, requiring little
first time an escape capsule was flight tested before on June 30, 1969, the C-5A Test Force, composed of Air Force Flight trim change and no pilot action in case of engine failure, and
the plane for which it was intended was flown. The Test Center and Military Airlift Command personnel, conducted the with good single engine performance.
rocket-powered capsule was ejected downward from first Air Force Preliminary Evaluation flight of the C-5A at Edwards Air July 2, 1975: Capt. Jane
an inverted position. Force Base, Calif.
L. Holley, a Flight Test
Engineering student in TPS
June 29, 1965: Class 74B, became the first
Capt. Joseph woman to graduate from
Engle reached the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot
280,600 feet (53 School at Edwards Air Force
miles) in the X-15 Base, Calif.
No. 3, becoming
the third Air Force
winged astronaut,
the youngest
pilot, and the first
civilian to receive
astronaut wings.
June 30, 1977: President Jimmy Carter cancels the
B-1 Lancer program. The program was restarted in
1981, and became the B-1B Lancer.

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