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And as this thought occurred to him, he also recalled Crossfield's famous speech at the last Parliament and the laughter which had greeted it.
The Willoughby Captains Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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"Scott Crossfield was a pioneer and a legend in the world of test flight and space flight," said Mike Coats, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Scott Crossfield telling stories of Flying USAF F104s dead stick to train for the X15 flights the Space Shuttle entry was based on X15 flight data
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See also Crossfield, "Irene Joliot-Curie" (1997), 112; Trenn, Transmutation Natural and Artificial, (1981), 75. back
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Note 8: Crossfield, "Irene Joliot-Curie" (1997), 114.
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Note 54: Crossfield, "Irene Joliot-Curie" (1997), 115. back
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Scott Crossfield, a legendary test pilot who became the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound in 1953 and later flew and helped design the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft, was found dead Thursday in the wreckage of his single-engine plane in mountains near Ranger, Ga.
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Image (courtesy NASA): Scott Crossfield in cockpit of the Douglas D-558-2 after first Mach 2 flight in 1953. (thanks, Kazys Varnelis)
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He thinks of Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield and the other early Edwards flight test pioneers, wondering if they ever stopped like this in the early desert night to stand so deeply humbled by a celestial display?
Orbit John J. Nance 2006
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Antony Crossfield for example...check out his "Foreign Body" series...and Aline Smithson does what many female photographers apparently do, photograph their feet in a variety of settings...
Archive 2006-12-01 Lemon Hound 2006
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