Some years after this picture, I flew in this very F-106 (90158) on a training mission "shooting down" other 6's.
At the time I flew in #158 I didn't know it was such a famous fighter!
Some years after this picture, I flew in this very F-106 (90158) on a training mission "shooting down" other 6's.
At the time I flew in #158 I didn't know it was such a famous fighter!
America's original 7 astronauts pose with an F-106B Delta Dart. Pictured from left to right are M. Scott Carpenter, Leroy Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, Jr., Walter M. Wally Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Donald K. Deke Slayton.