[Names Ash Housewares]

Thoughts are with his family. An American legend is gone.

[oxcart]

RIP

[Liberty Valance]

I just heard about this. A legend gone. RIP Scott.

[Richard Kimball]

Almost makes me wonder if this was really an accident. I can't think of a more perfect way for him to go.

[Steelerfan]

Thoughts and prayers for him and his family.

[Publius6961]

May he rest in peace.
One of the pioneering legends...

[usmcobra]

There are old pilots,
There are bold pilots,
but there are almost no old bold pilots,

And we just lost one of those few.

[Paleo Conservative]

If you want on or off my aerospace ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.

[ccmay]

What a shame. I saw a lecture he gave once, and shook hands with him afterwards. A perfect gentleman and an exemplar of all that makes America great. RIP.

-ccm

[Conservative4Ever]

Sounds like it's time to break out the DVD...'The Right Stuff'...and watch in memory of those early, brave pilots like Crossfield who loved to fly and were willing to take on the almost impossible to be able to do so. RIP to a legend and a hero.

[RunningWolf]

So sad.

The X-15 project was yet another USA pioneering venture that was never even remotely duplicated anywhere else in the world, and he was at the pointed end of it.

Wolf

[RunningWolf]

Salute to American patriot and legend Scott Crossfield



Wolf

[fieldmarshaldj]

May he rest in peace.

[BenLurkin]

"Legendary Pilot Killed in Crash" by Allison Gatlin

http://www.avpress.com/n/21/0421_s1.hts

[KeyLargo]

Sad that Mr. Yeager could not keep his mouth shut in respect for Mr. Crossfield's family.

Yeager suggests it's Crossfield's own fault he was killed in plane crash
(Ranger, GA-AP) April 21, 2006 - They were bitter rivals as they beat each other's records as test pilots in the 1950s. And now, after the death of pilot Scott Crossfield in the crash of his own private plane this week, fellow test-pilot Chuck Yeager is getting in some more digs.

Yeager says he's "sure sorry to hear" about Crossfield's death.

But the first man to break the sound barrier says "complacency" seems to have led to the accident. Yeager says Crossfield often flew in bad weather and sometimes "exceeded his capability and got in trouble."

Yeager was the first to pass the speed of sound in 1947. In 1953, Crossfield flew twice that fast, at Mach Two. That didn't sit well with his rival Yeager, who went out and topped him again a few weeks later.

Yeager wrote in his autobiography that Crossfield was "among the most arrogant" pilots he'd ever met.

Crossfield's body was found in wreckage Thursday in mountains about 50 miles from Atlanta. The 84-year-old's single-engine plane dropped off radar with thunderstorms in the area.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

For the last 6 weeks, my son has been at Maxwell AFB, which is near Prattville, AL, attending a training school. Scott Crossville briefed my son's class earlier this week, and later took off in his plane from Prattville. My son's group was called ... somthing 06 Charlie, being the 3rd group attending that training school this year.

After Crossville's, crash this week, they renamed the class 06 Crossville.

At the graduation ceremonies yesterday, the class had a video tribute to Crossville. Very moving.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

... urgh, not enough coffee yet, not Crossville, CROSSFIELD. Sorry.