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The DJ and music journalist Danny Baker also lived near the Crossfield Estate, where he was born and brought up.
Albert Scott Crossfield ( October 2, 1921 – April 19, 2006 ) was an American naval officer and test pilot.
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.
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.
Crossfield was uninjured, and the F-100 was later repaired and returned to service.
It was during this time that Crossfield was part of the U. S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest project.
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.
During descent, the cockpit windows completely frosted and Crossfield was literally flying blind.
Crossfield was played by Scott Wilson in the 1983 film The Right Stuff.
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.
When asked to name his favorite airplane, Crossfield replied, " the one I was flying at the time ," because he thoroughly enjoyed them all and their unique personalities.
On April 19, 2006, a Cessna 210A piloted by Crossfield was reported missing while flying from Prattville, Alabama toward Manassas, Virginia.
Crossfield was returning from Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama, where he had given a speech to a class of young Air Force officers attending the Air and Space Basic Course.
He was survived by his wife of sixty-three years, Alice Crossfield, six children and nine grandchildren.
Crossfield received the Lawrence Sperry Award ( 1954 ), Octave Chanute Award ( 1954 ), Iven C. Kincheloe Award ( 1960 ), American Rocket Society ( ARS ) Astronautics Award ( 1960 ), Harmon International Trophy ( 1961 at the White House by President John F. Kennedy ), Collier Trophy ( 1961 at the White House by President Kennedy in 1962 ), NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal ( 1993 ), and was named Honorary Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ) ( 1999 ).
He was also most proud of his A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year Award which is awarded annually at what is known as the " Oscar Night " in aviation, the Annual Enshrinement Ceremony Weekend at the National Aviation Hall of Fame held each year at the end of July in Dayton, Ohio.
To friends and protégés, Crossfield was incredibly generous with his time and his insights.
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.

Crossfield and aircraft
During the first spin, Crossfield experienced vibrations, banging, and noise in the aircraft that he had never encountered with his instructor.
In his remarks to a number of aviation groups, Crossfield cited the X-15 as one of few aircraft that caused grown men to cry upon its retirement.
" 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 and distance
Image: Alberta Crossfield single 2A foreground divided hwy 2 distance 005. jpg | At Crossfield, two-laned Highway 2A in the foreground with divided Highway 2 in the distance.

Crossfield and NACA
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.
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.

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

Crossfield and several
The book cites information gleaned from several interviews with Dan Lafferty and former and current members of the Crossfield School of the Prophets, as well as other fundamentalist Mormons.

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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.
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.
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 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 ).
* Scott Crossfield reaches Mach 2. 15 in the second North American X-15, 56-6671.
* 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.
* November 15 – Scott Crossfield reaches Mach 2. 97 in North American X-15 56-6671.
* Scott Crossfield, Yeager's direct rival and the first pilot known to have reached Mach 2.
Born in Berkeley, California, Crossfield grew up in California and Washington.
Crossfield demonstrated his flight test skills on his very first student solo.
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.

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The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.
He also studied and proved some theorems on perfect powers, such as the Goldbach – Euler theorem, and made several notable contributions to analysis.
Wood convinced Weiss that his own transvestism made him the perfect director despite his modest resume.
However, these same features made Windows NT perfect for the LAN server market ( which in 1993 was experiencing a rapid boom, as office networking was becoming common ).
However, his reign was far from perfect for everyone: he made unsuccessful crusades, his expanding administrations raised opposition, and he burned Jewish books at the Pope's urging.
Sitting in with Cream, Hendrix played through a new range of high-powered guitar amps being made by London drummer turned audio engineer Jim Marshall, and they proved perfect for his needs.
The chests were made the same size and were the perfect height for a Viking to sit on and row.
Like the Manhattan, the Rob Roy can be made sweet, dry, or perfect.
A perfect Rob Roy is made with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth.
The katzbalger's S-shaped guard and blade made it perfect for bringing in when the fighting became too close to use a zweihander.
The same observation can be made for the perfect matching problem.
" In a five star review for Empire Magazine, Ian Nathan wrote, " For those who delight in the Coens ' divinely abstract take on reality, this is pure nirvana " and " In a perfect world all movies would be made by the Coen brothers.
In 1864, Luppis presented Whitehead with the plans of the salvacoste ( coastsaver ), a floating weapon driven by ropes from the land, and made a contract with him in order to perfect the invention.
Luppis knew Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a Fiume factory and in 1864 Luppis made a contract with him in order to perfect the invention.
Its close proximity to Yogyakarta and world heritage sites such as the Borobudur and Prambanan Temples has made Solo the perfect location to celebrate the everlasting Javanese creative tradition of Batik.
Deriving authority from Christ within the hierarchical church, priests provide the ministry by which the spiritual sacrifice of the faithful is made perfect, in union with the sacrifice of Christ.
Next, the court acknowledged the reality that not every law could be made perfect, and that various practicalities needed to be taken into account.
Let us assume that the waveguide is made of a metal that is such a good conductor that we can consider it to be a perfect conductor.
Synthetic verbal conjugation is expressed in present, aorist and imperfect tenses, while perfect, pluperfect, future and conditional tenses / moods are made by combining auxiliary verbs with participles or synthetic tense forms.
Sydney Smith wrote, " Never was any administration so completely and so suddenly destroyed ; and, I believe, entirely by the Duke's declaration, made, I suspect, in perfect ignorance of the state of public feeling and opinion.
His mild-mannered nature and shy demeanor made him the perfect straight man for zanier characters such as Daffy.
having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
: The strongest sense of solution requires an algorithm which can produce perfect play ( moves ) from any position, i. e. even if mistakes have already been made on one or both sides.
Sometimes, a distinction is made between an ideal gas, where and could vary with pressure and temperature, and a perfect gas, for which this is not the case.

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