From: Jonathan Boos (acfarer@cox.net)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 14:21:01 PDT
HOLY SMOKES! What a glorious career. Thank you Alan, for distributing this
Jonathan
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> One of the greatest test pilots.....
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info. I've got some reading to do.
From: "Alan Wise" <awise1@cinci.rr.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: [MV] Godspeed, A. Scott Crossfield
>
> April 20, 2006
>
>
> Missing Single Engine Aircraft Located
>
>
> (Georgia) - The 1960 Cessna 210A aircraft belonging to A. Scott
> Crossfield
> of Herndon, Va. has been located. Crossfield was on a flight from
> Prattville, Ala. to Manassas, Va. Tuesday morning when the aircraft
> disappeared from radar. The last radar contact with the aircraft was in
> the
> north Georgia area. The Civil Air Patrol conducted air and ground searches
> along the flight path and located the crash site in Gilmer County. There
> were no survivors.
>
> Crossfield, 84, was born in Berkely, Calif. on Oct. 2, 1921.
>
> Crossfield was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol. He was a strong
> supporter
> of the Civil Air Patrol and, in particular, CAP's aerospace education
> program. He created the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher
> of
> the Year Award to recognize and reward teachers for outstanding
> accomplishments in aerospace education and for their dedication to the
> students they teach. The Scott Crossfield Award for senior members is
> CAP's
> highest award in aerospace education.
>
> At his 80th birthday, in 2001, Crossfield was still flying 200 hours per
> year as a private pilot/instrument rating. He was a fighter gunnery
> instructor in the U.S. Navy during WWII. In 1950, he joined NASA's
> predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and was a
> research pilot for the next five years at the High Speed Flight Research
> Station at Edwards, Calif. Crossfield was the test pilot for numerous
> research aircraft, including the X-1, X-4, X-5, XF-92, the D-558-I and
> D-558-II while at Edwards. It is possible that no other test pilot in
> aviation history has test flown as many aircraft that are now displayed in
> flight museums -- The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's
> Milestones
> of Flight Gallery includes the #1 X-15 and the #2 Skyrocket. He also flew
> the #2 Bell X-1, the sister ship of the #1 ("Glamorous Glennis"), which
> also
> hangs in the same gallery. On Nov. 20, 1953, he set four speed records
> before becoming the first man to reach Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound)
> in
> the air-launched, rocket-propelled D-558-2. Crossfield capped his
> distinguished test pilot career as the NASA program manager and first
> project pilot on the X-15 rocket powered research aircraft, taking the
> aircraft to the fringes of outer space.
> Among his countless honors, Crossfield received the Lawrence Sperry Award,
> Octave Chanute Award, Iven C. Kincheloe Award, Harmon International Trophy
> and the Collier Trophy. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of
> Fame (1983), the International Space Hall of Fame (1988) and the Aerospace
> Walk of Honor (1990).
>
>
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