Scott Crossfield dies is a plane crash at age 84

[First time Juke]

I was very sorry for reading this piece of news this morning.

I knew him only via the movie Right Stuff.

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4794452

He was the first to exceed mach 2,0 ?

[First time Juke]

Re: Scott Crossfield dies is a plane crash at age 84

He had a very colourful career as a test pilot:

http://www.edwards.af.mil/history/docs_html/people/pilot_crossfield.html

53 years ago in 1953 flying a Grumman Skyrocket he reached mach 2,005 before anyone else.

[AirDOGGe]

Re: Scott Crossfield dies is a plane crash at age 84

Visit the aero-new site and scroll down and you will find several articles about Scott Crossfield.

Some are about the crash, but others go into details about his accomplishments and adventures that are well worth taking the time to read. Quite interesting.

Aero_news Network

http://www.aero-news.net/PlainPage.cfm

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[First time Juke]

"Yeager broke the sonic wall, but it took Crossfield to break the hangar wall."

Indeed Airdogge..it was really worth while to read.