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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Crossfield not only designed the X-15 from the beginning, but introduced many innovations, including putting engine controls of the rocket plane into the cockpit.

After his death in 2006 and the shift of NCASE from an annual to biannual conference, Crossfields's daughter, Sally Crossfield Farley, moved the award to the National Aviation Hall of Fame and it is now presented during the Enshrinement Weekend each July in Dayton, Ohio.

Crossfield received an honorary doctor of science degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1982.

* Crossfield Not Warned of Storm article from Washington Post

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.

He may have obtained it from the library of Tadhg O Rodaighe ( Thady Roddy of Crossfield, County Leitrim ).

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.

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 ).

" 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.

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

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.

He spent a year unloading trucks in Cheeseman department store in Maidstone, then in 1976 he had a nervous breakdown, attempted suicide and spent three months in Crossfield psychiatric ward, West Malling.

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.

Crossfield at the 2004 launch of Space Ship One

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.

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.

* 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.