File:113. Bill Dana.jpg
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Flight Research Center test pilot William H. Dana at far right made some of the F-107 test flights in support of this writer’s project, and also made the last flight of the X-15 program. He made two X-15 flights above 50 miles altitude, qualifying him for NASA astronaut wings that were eventually awarded some 38 years after the flights. The four to the left are the F-107’s very excellent ground crew that sometimes could get two flights a day out of the F-107. Pilots who flew the F-107 said it was the “best fighter the Air Force never bought,” The author is standing next to Dana. NASA photo
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