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Doug_Kibbey
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: A legend passes....
Scott Crossfield, dead at 84 in single engine plane crash in Georgia. Details unknown.

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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: A legend passes....
Seems to be thunderstorms and the engine died. _________________ "Well, I gotta go...Yeh I'm running out of change"

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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: Re: A legend passes....
Sorry to hear this. Wasn't it one of his X-15 flights that ended with a landing that broke the back of the plane? Tailwinds..... _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:06 pm
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Sorry to hear this. Wasn't it one of his X-15 flights that ended with a landing that broke the back of the plane?

Tailwinds.....

I belive so...and for sure he was in the one doing static testing when the engine exploded and blew the cockpit some 50' from the rest of the plane...while he sat patiently inside waiting for rescue from the fire that engulfed the cockpit. I think it was calculated that he sustained something >50 G's from the accelerations following the explosion.

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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: Re: A legend passes....
Sad new indeed. Just saw a show about him on the Military Channel not to long ago. www.nasa.gov/centers/d...-p021.html www.edwards.af.mil/his...field.html www.avweb.com/news/pro...924-1.html _________________ You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3

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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:12 am Post subject: Re: A legend passes....

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: Re: A legend passes....
Saw it on the Nightly news last night. A full life of flight, amazing. _________________

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:08 am Post subject: Re: A legend passes....

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: Re: A legend passes....
Chuck Yeager had some rather interesting things to say about Crossfields passing. Must have been quite a rivalry between those two!!!!!!!!!! _________________ " Refuel my plane and load my guns" Hiroyoshi Nishizawa " The Devil of Rabaul"

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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 4:57 am
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Mr. Crossfield led quite the life. This 3 page story on him was in the Friday, 21 April issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch. I was at Ft Eustis when this came out. I wanted to post it sooner but was quite busy. I realize it's sideways but the picture quality was better this way. Yes, Chuck Yeager and Mr Crossfield had a rivalry. Yeager broke Crossfields Mach 2 achievements just weeks later. I don't believe they got along well but respected each other just the same.

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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: Re: A legend passes....
Thanks for the pics and the story Jeff...

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