When considering the pioneers of flight, after the Wright Brothers, most people tend to think of Chuck Yeager, the first man to ever travel faster than the speed of sound. However, the first man to travel twice the speed of sound was Scott Crossfield whose name gets forgotten outside of those in Aeronautical circles. While he wasn't the first man to break the sound barrier, he was nonetheless an American hero for being brave enough to do it.
How did he die? Well, he died in a way I think any pilot of his ilk would want to die--in a plane. Sadly, it crashed with him at the stick, but, less sadly, he was alone on the plane and 84 years old.
Not a bad run.
He'll be missed and remembered, even if only by some of us. :)
Read more about him in [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1867287|an April 20, 2006 article] at ABCNEWS.com.
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Saturday, April 22, 2006
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