From: CR & KJ Cundy (mistymtn@gwtc.net)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2006 - 13:17:31 PDT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rowland, Donnie" <DROWLAND@capnhq.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:55 PM
> Subject: CAP Press Release A. Scott Crossfield
>
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> I'm deeply saddened to report that Scott Crossfield's aircraft has been
> located and he is deceased. Georgia Wing ground team members are at the
> accident scene.
>
> CAP has lost one of our most admired and respected advocates. He will be
> missed dearly.
>
>
> News release is included.
>
> V/R,
>
> Don Rowland
>
>
> Civil Air Patrol
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>
> NEWS RELEASE
>
>
> POC: Capt. Paige Joyner, CAP, Mission Information Officer,
> Director of Public Affairs, Georgia Wing
> E-mail:pa@gawg.cap.gov
> Georgia Wing
>
>
> 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).
> The incident commander is Lt. Col. Joe Knight, director of operations for
> Georgia Wing. For further information and press releases, contact Capt.
> Paige Joyner, mission information officer and director of public affairs,
> Georgia Wing, at (678) 570-5422.
>
> Civil Air Patrol, the official U. S. Air Force Auxiliary, is a nonprofit
> organization which performs 95 percent of continental U.S. inland search
> and
> rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. On
> the Web: http://www.cap.gov.
>
>
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