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Albert Scott Crossfield
"Scott"

Albert Crossfield

Born: 2 October 1921, Berkeley, California, United States

Nationality: American

Died: 19 April 2006 (Small plane crash)

Group: Man In Space Soonest (25 June 1958)

Group2: X-15 Pilots 1 ( 1957)

Status: Deceased


 

Non-Qualifying Flights with Significance:
X-15 Flight #1
8 June 1959
4 minutes, 57 seconds
X-15 Flight #2
17 September 1959
9 minutes, 11 seconds
X-15 Flight #3
17 October 1959
9 minutes, 38 seconds
X-15 Flight #4
5 November 1959
5 minutes, 28 seconds
X-15 Flight #5
23 January 1960
9 minutes, 55 seconds
X-15 Flight #6
11 February 1960
10 minutes, 16 seconds
X-15 Flight #7
17 February 1960
10 minutes, 36 seconds
X-15 Flight #8
17 March 1960
8 minutes, 40 seconds
X-15 Flight #10
29 March
9 minutes, 10 seconds
X-15 Flight #11
31 March 1960
8 minutes, 56 seconds
X-15 Flight #17
26 May 1960
9 minutes, 50 seconds
X-15 Flight #26
15 November 1960
8 minutes, 28 seconds
X-15 Flight #28
22 November 1960
7 minutes, 32 seconds
X-15 Flight #30
6 December 1960
8 minutes, 7 seconds

Education
  BS (Aeronautical Engineering), University of Washington, 1949
  MS (Aeronautical Engineering), University of Washington, 1950

Pilot of high speed jets and rocket planes, Crossfield was the first X-15 pilot and made fourteen flights. He also piloted the X-1, D-558 II Skyrocket, X-4, X-5, XF-92A, and the F-100. He became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound in 1953. He never exceeded 80,000 meters in altitude and thus never earned astronaut wings.

 

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