Part 112, page 181

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER Edwards, California

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Capt. Joe H. Engle

Capt. Joe H. Engle, USAF, is one of the six members of the joint Air Force- NASA X-15 pilot team.

Making his first flight in the X-15 on October 7, 1963, he piloted the X-15 to a peak altitude of 280,600 feet on June 29, 1965 and qualified for the official rating of astronaut.

Captain Engle previously put in seven months as a fighter test pilot at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards after completing an eight-month Experimental Flight Test Pilot course, May 19; 1962.

A native of Chapman, Kansas, born August 26, 1932, he was chosen for the test pilot course after four years of flying F-100 Super Sabres with the 309th Tactical Fight Squadron at George AFB, Victorville, California.

He first joined the Air Force at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, where he received his aeronautical engineering degree in 1955, and Re- serve Officer Training Corps commission.

Before going on active duty March 14, 1956 he was an aerodynamics and flight test engineer at Cessna Aircraft Corporation, Wichita, where he also worked summers while attending the university.

He is married to the former Mary Lawrence and the couple have two children.

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