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 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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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 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.

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 ).

Both men's extremism reached new heights when they became members of the School of the Prophets founded and led by Robert Crossfield.

It passes immediately west of the Calgary International Airport before continuing north to the City of Airdrie, which is bisected by Highway 2, while a number of other smaller communities such as Crossfield are bypassed.

* 1961 Scott Crossfield

* 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 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.

* The Scott Crossfield Foundation

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

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 ).

* Spacefacts biography of Albert Scott Crossfield

* A. Scott Crossfield Elementary School near his former residence

* Accident That Killed Famed Aviator Scott Crossfield, NTSB Releases Final Report

* Scott Crossfield Foundation web site, retrieved March 25, 2008

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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.