Test Pilot Scott Crossfield Dies....

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jmp883 said:
Just saw this news item on Yahoo.....here's the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=2&u=/ap/20060420/ap_on_re_us/missing_plane

I never knew the man, I only knew him by reading about him via my extensive aviation library. He was truly a legend in aviation.

To his family and friends I offer my condolences, thoughts, and prayers.
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That is really a shame.

I first heard about him when I read "The Right Stuff" in middle school. Still one of my favorite books.

Sadly, that entire era is starting to pass away. Almost half of the Mercury astronauts are already gone.

-Mike
 
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"Call to Glory"

May God guide and comfort the family.

High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth.
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings,
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind i've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee Jr.


In December 1941, Pilot Officer John Magee, a 19 year old American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England, was killed when his Spitfire collided with another aircraft inside a cloud. Several months before his death, he composed his immortal sonnet "High Flight", a copy of which he fortunately mailed to his parents in the United States.
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