* November 20-Scott Crossfield flies the Douglas Skyrocket past Mach 2 in a dive, the first flight to reach this speed.

* September 17 – In the second North American X-15, 56-6671, Scott Crossfield makes the first powered X-15 flight, reaching Mach 2. 11 at 52, 341 feet ( 15, 954 meters ).

The first " Commercial Astronaut " Michael Winston " Mike " Melvill, reviews the first private space flight with Scott Crossfield

Crossfield flew 14 of the 199 total X-15 flight tests with most of these tests establishing and validating initial key parameters.

From 2001 to 2003, Crossfield trained pilots Terry Queijo, Kevin Kochersberger, Chris Johnson and Ken Hyde for The Wright Experience, which prepared to fly a reproduction Wright Flyer on the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers ' first flight on December 17, 1903.

In one sense, it was only fitting that Crossfield conducted this experimental flight training because all pilots in this project had to unlearn their considerable flying experience and learn forgotten Wright brothers techniques.

" Even so, Crossfield often performed much of the dangerous initial test flight profiles with a small cadre of other test pilots before active duty Air Force and Navy test pilots were turned loose in the experimental aircraft.

Crossfield opined his military, NACA / NASA, and manufacturer flight test jobs were to prepare military test pilots for the tasks in which they earned recognition for aeronautical firsts by giving them solid flight data.

Albert Scott Crossfield ( October 2, 1921 – April 19, 2006 ) was an American naval officer and test pilot.

In later years, Crossfield often cited his curiosity about this solo spin anomaly and his desire to analyze what was going on and why it happened, as the start of his test pilot career.

In September 1954 Crossfield was forced to make a dead stick landing in the North American F-100 Super Sabre he was evaluating at Dryden, a feat which North American's own test pilots doubted could be done, as the F-100 had a high landing speed.

As chief engineering test pilot for North American, Crossfield played a major role in the design and development of the North American X-15 and its systems.

Crossfield co-authored Always Another Dawn, a story of a rocket test pilot, with Clay Blair Jr, and authored " Onward and Upward " Research Airplanes, Act II.

To an even smaller group of those who were close, Crossfield discussed distinguishing capabilities of test pilots and who could be counted upon to get recurring reliable data on profile flights and those who were assigned to the chase planes.

President John F. Kennedy used the occasion to confer the most prestigious award in American aviation, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, jointly to White and three of his fellow X-15 pilots ; NASA's Joseph Walker, Commander Forrest S. Peterson of the U. S. Navy, and North American Aviation test pilot Scott Crossfield.

The A. Scott Crossfield Award is named after American naval officer and test pilot Albert Scott Crossfield.

Members of rock groups Squeeze and Dire Straits lived on the Crossfield Estate in Deptford in the late 1970s, along with Mark Perry, founder of the punk fanzine Sniffin Glue and punk rock band Alternative TV.

Crossfield wangers are typically attempted from deep when the opposing full back is drawn towards the middle and there is an open channel in the flank for the on rushing winger.

* November 5 – After suffering an in-flight engine fire, the second North American X-15, 56-6671, piloted by Scott Crossfield, breaks its back making an emergency landing on Rosamond Dry Lake, California.

His instructor was not available on the designated early morning, so Crossfield, on his own, took off and went through maneuvers he had practiced with his instructor, including spin entry and spin recovery.

Unable to jettison his propellants, Crossfield was forced to make an emergency landing during which the excessive load on the aircraft broke its back just behind the cockpit.

In 1967, Crossfield joined Eastern Air Lines where he served as a division vice president for research and development and, subsequently, as a staff vice president working with U. S. military and civilian agencies on air traffic control technologies.

In 1986 he created and funded the A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year Award presented annually under the stewardship of the Civil Air Patrol during the National Congress on Aerospace Education now called the National Conference on Aerospace Education ( NCASE ).

The society was founded on September 14, 1955, as the " Testy Test Pilots Society " and had Scott Crossfield of NACA, Ray Tenhoff of Northrop, Joe Ozier of Lockheed, Dick Johnson and John Fitzpatrick of Convair, Tom Kilgariff of Douglas, and Lou Everett of Ryan Aeronautical Company as its original members.

The first officers of the society were instated on October 25, 1955, and consisted of Ray Tenhoff, President ; Scott Crossfield, Executive Adviser ; Dick Johnson, Vice-President ; Joe Ozier, Secretary ; Lou Everett, Treasurer ; and Al Blackburn, Legal Officer.

This supersonic rocket plane first flew on June 8, 1959 with Scott Crossfield at the controls.

The Laffertys were formerly members of a very small splinter group called the School of Prophets, led by a man named Robert C. Crossfield ( also known by his prophet name Onias ).

* Scott Crossfield, Yeager's direct rival and the first pilot known to have reached Mach 2.

During the first spin, Crossfield experienced vibrations, banging, and noise in the aircraft that he had never encountered with his instructor.

At the first competition he entered at Crossfield in June, 1918, Knight won second place in the bucking contest.

The DJ and music journalist Danny Baker also lived near the Crossfield Estate, where he was born and brought up.

Long Lake is part of the 1. 1 million acres ( 4, 500 km² ) acquired from the Mohawk Indians as part of the 1771 Totten and Crossfield Purchase.

There are vast areas planted with rubber in the early days under the Guthrie Ropel Group, Asiatic Plantations, Harrison Crossfield and various other rubber companies.

* Scott Crossfield reaches Mach 2. 15 in the second North American X-15, 56-6671.

* November 15 – Scott Crossfield reaches Mach 2. 97 in North American X-15 56-6671.

Born in Berkeley, California, Crossfield grew up in California and Washington.

In 1950, Crossfield joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ' ( NACA ) High-Speed Flight Station ( now the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center ) at Edwards Air Force Base, California, as an aeronautical research pilot.

With 99 flights in the rocket-powered X-1 and D-558-II, Crossfield had — by a wide margin — more experience with rocketplanes than any other pilot in the world by the time he left Edwards to join North American Aviation in 1955.

Crossfield made a perfect approach and touchdown, but was unable to bring the unpowered aircraft to a halt in a safe distance, and was forced to use the wall of the NACA hangar as a makeshift brake after narrowly missing several parked experimental aircraft.

Crossfield was uninjured, and the F-100 was later repaired and returned to service.

Although ion engines had been developed at NASA since the late 1950s, with the exception of the SERT missions in the 1960s, the technology had not been demonstrated in flight.

A number of companies are developing vehicles, although few have demonstrated a full-sized vehicle capable of free flight.

The first documented balloon flight in Europe was demonstrated by Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

However, with the tiltrotor this problem is avoided, because the proprotors are perpendicular to the motion in the high-speed portions of the flight regime ( and thus never suffering this reverse flow condition ), meaning that the tiltrotor has relatively high maximum speed-over 300 knots / 560 km / h has been demonstrated in the two types of tiltrotors flown so far, and cruise speeds of 250 knots / 460 km / h are achieved.

While an aircraft's V < sub > S </ sub > speed is computed by design, its V < sub > S0 </ sub > and V < sub > S1 </ sub > speeds must be demonstrated empirically by flight testing.

The highest angle of attack in sustained flight so far demonstrated was 70 degrees in the X-31 at the Dryden Flight Research Center.

The 1941 movie Dive Bomber, although focused on Naval Aviation, highlighted the role of the flight surgeon just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and demonstrated how solving the problems of hypoxia at altitude would reduce the aircraft mishap rate.

Testing quickly demonstrated that the idea of using a single engine to provide air for both the lift curtain and forward flight required too many trade-offs.

Recently, some states have enacted statutes modelled on federal law that permit pretrial detention of persons charged with serious violent offenses, if it can be demonstrated that the defendant is a flight risk or a danger to the community.

Glenn Martin demonstrated a personal jetpack, during a test flight called the Martin Jetpack.

This clearly demonstrated the ability to build practical heavier-than-air flying machines ; what remained was the problem of controlling and powering the flight.

Eckersley's claim was eventually demonstrated after Churchill ordered a flight to try to detect the beams.

The Soviets had demonstrated this capability on August 21 with a successful 6, 000 km test flight of the R-7 booster ; TASS announced it five days later and the event was widely reported in Aviation Week and other media.

He, and others, soon corrected this assumption but the story of the scientist who demonstrated that bee flight was impossible persists to this day.

These tests successfully demonstrated the air intake operation and validated the modelled aerodynamic characteristics, confirming the configuration for the first flight trials.

As demonstrated by the Israeli Army under fire from Soviet-armed Arab states, responding to the distinctive smoke puff of a missile launch with rapid manoeuvres and immediate counter-fire minimizes their accuracy, as very few ATGM gunners maintain their concentration on a fast-moving tank for the entire flight time of the missile while under suppressing fire.

A EF T1 DA ( Development Aircraft trainer version ) demonstrated supercruise ( 1, 21M ) with 2 SRAAM, 4 MRAAM and drop tank ( plus one tonne flight test equipment, plus 700 kg more weight for the trainer version ) during the Singapore evaluation.

* SpaceX Falcon 1 ( announced as partially reusable ; 28 September 2008 test flight reached orbit, but vehicle recovery not yet demonstrated )

In his remarks, he noted " China, once again, has demonstrated that it is among the elite number of countries capable of human space flight.

The suborbital flight was a partially successful demonstration of the service propulsion system and the reaction control systems of both modules, and successfully demonstrated the capability of the Command Module's heat shield to survive re-entry from low Earth orbit.

The vehicle in flight test measured aeroballistics, which confirmed values of aerodynamic characteristics such as stability and performance ; propulsion, which ensured the engines could provide enough thrust to propel the vehicle at the correct velocity and trajectory, as well as provide data on on the performance of all eight engines during flight ; structural and mechanical, which provided measurements of the vehicle's stress and vibration levels through all phases of flight ; and guidance and control, which demonstrated that spacecraft systems could accurately provide orientation and velocity information.

On one hand, Rotary Rocket demonstrated its technical ability by flight testing of actual hardware.

At the completion of the previous Gemini flight, the program still had not demonstrated that an astronaut could work easily and efficiently outside the spacecraft.