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| Author: | boomer [ 20 Apr 2006, 18:56 ] |
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<img src=newicons/smiley_salute.gif border=0 align=middle> <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY FOXFAN CENTRAL FOXNEWS.COM HOME > NATIONAL Legendary Pilot Scott Crossfield Dies in Crash Thursday, April 20, 2006 PHOTOS Click image to enlarge STORIES •Scott Crossfield: The Life of a Daredevil•FOX Facts: Scott Crossfield and U.S. Test Pilots RANGER, Ga. — Legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, was found dead Thursday in the wreckage of a single-engine plane in the mountains of northern Georgia, authorities said. Searchers discovered the wreckage about 1 p.m. near Ranger, 50 miles northwest of Atlanta. The Civil Air Patrol identified the body found inside as Crossfield. There were thunderstorms in the area Wednesday morning when air traffic monitors lost radio and radar contact with the Crossfield's Cessna 210A, said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane had left Prattville, Ala., around 9 a.m. that day for his home near Manassas, Va. Crossfield's son-in-law, Ed Fleming, told The Associated Press from Crossfield's home on Thursday that family had been notified his plane and body had been found. The airplane carrying the 84-year-old pilot crashed in a remote and heavily forested gully about 10 miles from Ranger. Oris Hendrix, who lives about a mile away, said she had heard the plane having trouble in the storm. "He was trying to turn and he just went down," she said. "You could tell the motor was having trouble. You could tell the motor cut off." Among the small community of test pilots, Crossfield was a legend, said veteran test pilot Fred Griffith of Shelter Bay, Wash. "This guy was a gentleman and an aviator. That's the top of the line," said Griffith, a test pilot for 40 years. "There's pilots, there's drivers. An aviator is something else. That's the best I can say about anyone in this business. "I don't know anybody who was more respectable than Scotty Crossfield." In the early 1950s, Crossfield had been one of a group of civilian pilots assembled by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, the forerunner of NASA. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager had already broken the speed of sound in his history-making flight in 1947. But Crossfield set the Mach 2 record — twice the speed of sound — in 1953, when he reached 1,300 mph in NACA's Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket. In 1960, Crossfield reached Mach 2.97 in an X-15 rocket plane launched from a B-52 bomber. The plane reached an altitude of 81,000 feet. At the time, Crossfield was working as a pilot and design consultant for North American Aviation, which made the X-15. He later worked as an executive for Eastern Airlines and Hawker Siddley Aviation. More recently, Crossfield had a key role in preparations for the attempt to re-enact the Wright brothers' flight on the 100th anniversary of their feat near Kitty Hawk, N.C. He trained four pilots for the Dec. 17, 2003, flight attempt in a replica of the brothers' flyer, but poor weather prevented the take-off. Among his many honors, Crossfield was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1983. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> A 45 has a muzzle. A 9mm has a bullet vent. |
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| Author: | Hawg166 [ 20 Apr 2006, 20:34 ] |
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Damn those post WWII jet jockies were aviation Gods. "By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a peerage or Westminster Abbey !" Nelson the Immortal Memory |
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| Author: | M&M [ 20 Apr 2006, 21:52 ] |
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I'm impressed by the fact that at 84 he was still able to pass a flight physical! What a true aviation hero. <img src="http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/457/bgnrjsiiw81q1gc.jpg" border=0> Gravity....its not just a good idea, its the law. |
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| Author: | mattlott [ 20 Apr 2006, 22:03 ] |
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He died like a man rather than in a wheelchair, drooling, with pampers on, and sucking nurishment down a tube in his stomach. If we all could go out doing what we love. I see so many in my current job decades younger than him in nursing homes. What a man!!! |
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| Author: | Dutchy [ 21 Apr 2006, 00:30 ] |
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Words of Chuck Yeager about him:(read link) http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/georgi ... index.html <img src=newicons/smiley_salute.gif border=0 align=middle> Salute Dutchy ------------------------ Termites do it in the dark! (47FS Barksdale afb) Edited by - dutchy on Apr 20 2006 23:31 |
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| Author: | fenderstrat72 [ 21 Apr 2006, 08:59 ] |
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<img src=newicons/smiley_salute.gif border=0 align=middle> Fender "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw |
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| Author: | Goob [ 21 Apr 2006, 10:18 ] |
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Chuck Yeager is a ass bag I met him once out in Calli. It was like he didnt want use to breath his air. And now he is talking crap about Crossfield (true or not) right after his death COME ON. live to wrench, wrench to live |
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| Author: | Coach [ 21 Apr 2006, 16:54 ] |
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Petty jealousy that smells even worse after fifty years of fermenting. Coach |
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| Author: | fenderstrat72 [ 21 Apr 2006, 18:19 ] |
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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Petty jealousy that smells even worse after fifty years of fermenting. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> Yeah, what Coach said. Gees, bad blood after all of these years. Fender "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw |
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| Author: | chadrewsky [ 22 Apr 2006, 19:15 ] |
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Crossfield was a Naval Aviator before he became a civilian test pilot. Not sure Yeager held anymore than a competitive, honest demeanor in regards to a comrades passing. Remember back in that era the USAF test pilots were barely making a living, while the civilian factory pilots were getting big bucks and publicity. His comments were more than likely taken out of context, of our very "fair and unbiased" mass media. Fair winds and following sea's Scotty. <img src=newicons/smiley_salute.gif border=0 align=middle> |
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| Author: | fenderstrat72 [ 24 Apr 2006, 08:36 ] |
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Chad did you read the same article I did? Out of context? <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> The now 83-year-old Yeager, in his book "Yeager: An Autobiography," described friction between the military pilots and the civilian NACA pilots. He groused that Crossfield "was a proficient pilot, but also among the most arrogant I've met. ... None of us blue suiters was thrilled to see a NACA guy bust Mach 2." <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote> Fender "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw |
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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 24 Apr 2006, 13:55 ] |
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<img src=newicons/smiley_salute.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b343/m21sniper/OnTheJobEnhanced.jpg" border=0> <b>"One post, One Kill".</b> |
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