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DIED. Scott Crossfield, 84, civilian aircraft designer and cold war test pilot who in 1953 became the first man to fly at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside...
...Everything they did was at Mach 10. Everything was so fast, the way they cradled was so fast, that everything was almost out of control,” Sproul said...
...Force, he flew B-52 bombers. The day he left the military, he began piloting for American Airlines, and upon his mandatory retirement at 60, he bought a Russian-designed, Chinese-built MiG-17 fighter, which he used to do tricks at air shows, zooming at speeds up to Mach 1.1 and pulling up to 9 Gs. ("Isn't that what every grandfather does?" Brunstad asks.) But his real passion all along was long-distance swimming, particularly open-water swimming, which he discovered in 1992. Competing in races, often in Long Island Sound, Brunstad loved not only the physical challenge...
...Speed, in miles per hour, attained by NASA's "scramjet," the first jet aircraft to go Mach 9.6, or 2 miles per second...
...cool to see James Brown, butit would have been better if he sang,” said Daniel P. Mach...