RANGER, Ga. — 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 small plane, ...

RANGER, Ga. — 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 small plane, ...

With the debut of "The Other First Man," we launched our Flight Test Files series-an exploration of the groundbreaking flight research conducted by NACA and later NASA. These stories shine a light on ...

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, his ...

Scott Crossfield, who died at 84 Wednesday when his single-engine Cessna crashed in mountains north of Atlanta, was an aircraft engineer and test pilot, who in 1953 became the first person ever to ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Scott Crossfield is a Pilot with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2001 Forum. Test pilot and aviation pioneer Scott Crossfield talked about the ...

BARTLESVILLE -- In "The Right Stuff," a Tom Wolfe book -- later a movie -- about the space program's early days, test pilots and their wives are sitting in a bar near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Accession number 2006-0041, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. A. Scott Crossfield Papers, Acc. 2006-0041, National ...

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