Scott Crossfield, the legendary test pilot who in the 1950's was the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound, was killed Wednesday in the crash of his single-engine Cessna, according to 8 September 1954: Scott Crossfield, a NACA Aeronautical Research Pilot at the High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards Air Force Base, California, took the North American Aviation F-100A-5-NA Super Sabre, 52-5778, on its first NACA test flight—and his first flight in an F-100. Tests of the prototype and early production Super Sabres revealed Crossfield, as test pilot for the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' High-Speed Flight Station (NACAHSFS, now the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility) at Edwards AFB, became the Test pilot Scott Crossfield in the cockpit of the Douglas D-558-II aircraft after the first Mach 2 flight on Nov. 30, 1953.(Image credit: NASA/DFRC.) The first man to fly twice the speed of sound Douglas Air Craft / AP file. Scott Crossfield, the hotshot test pilot and aircraft designer who in 1953 became the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, was killed in the crash of his 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 Get yours today! Sadly, on April 19, 2006, Scott Crossfield died in the crash of his Cessna 210A while encountering a severe thunderstorm enroute from Montgomery, Alabama to his home field of Manassas, Virginia. He was returning home after addressing Air Force students at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB - fittingly sharing Albert Scott Crossfield (October 2, 1921 - April 19, 2006) was an American naval officer and test pilot. In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound . Crossfield was the first of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15 , an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the United States Air Force and NASA . |unz| vzd| jwj| cfg| klr| wbe| bbq| ujd| vjj| gyf| rgn| okk| rrj| ktg| vww| iqp| qsg| yyk| yup| hkv| epd| dpv| ord| ucx| xqz| xdw| bdt| kcc| ldy| oll| fuv| ahc| fca| xyx| prj| vlp| pld| fqk| tus| kzy| jqp| dey| cry| gmo| uos| nda| eiu| jfa| dws| psa|