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...slim, hawk-nosed Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, leisurely finished a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, struggled into a silver-tinted pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first U.S. aircraft...
...m.p.h., reach altitudes of 100 miles or more. But it had never before been tested in free flight. Last week's test had been postponed six times because of bad weather and failures in the X-15's telemetry and electrical systems. Even as the mother plane carried it above the Mojave Desert, groundlings were quoting odds that the X-15, with wings little bigger than a Cadillac tail fin, would "drop like a rock" when released...
Stone's fundraising acumen ultimately became the stuff of legend. Calkins later said that Stone "would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there...
...plane collides with a Chinese fighter jet, killing the Chinese pilot, then makes an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan; the crew is held for 10 days until the U.S. issues a letter expressing its regret...
...medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and they're generally amateur in execution and wildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTube or Google Video, and you'll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane crashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people can't stop watching them...