When I told my 86 year old retired Air Force pilot Dad about Scott
Crossfield's death his comment was "At least he died doing something he
loved." No wonder they call them The Greatest Generation.



Bryan



"Bruce" wrote in message
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Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:21:51 -0500, "Bryan"
wrote:


Fame. More information, including some comments by Chuck Yeager, can be
found at Yahoo! News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060421/..._crossfield_12


Typical Yeager comments, I'd like to add. One cause why I detested
Yeager's biography.

One cause why I loved Crossfield's biography is that he never spoke
bad about about anyone else.


Bye
Andreas
Second that.

Crossfield came across as a gentleman. It is a great pity if the commments
attributed to Chuck Yeager were accurate. One would have thought that this
would be a good occasion for dignity.

I have to observe that you don't get to be a test pilot and reach 84 by
taking chances. Whatever his faults, Scott's contribution was enormous.
His book "Always another dawn" is a must read if you are interested in the
glory days of the NACA X program, and a different perspective on events.

Some referrence info is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Crossfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15

--
Bruce Greeff
Std Cirrus #57
I'm no-T at the address above.