An Interview with Scott CrossfieldThe D-558-II was one of the research airplanes funded by the Navy. That is the reason that it did not have the "X" designation. It was primarily the review to look at what the transonic effects of the swept-wing would be. With it we flew some several hundred flights and wrote the book on how we could design and build modern swept-wing airplanes. It proved many of the things that we have learned since then. The D-558-II was a very productive airplane. Almost every airplane in the air today has a little bit of the D-558-II basic information--or what we learned from it--in it.
by John W. Alexanders
1988
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