~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
Scott Crossfield was a name that every boy in the fifties and sixties
knew. He was one of several legendary test pilots who regularly swapped
positions as the fastest men alive during that period of technological
upheaval. But while obituaries and encomiums today will polish the
legend of "Scott Crossfield, Test Pilot," he wasn't just a test pilot.
As an engineer and engineering manager, he was standing in the back
rank of the technical revolution at the same time he was strapped into
its hurtling nose cone.

Does anybody else remember the story, I believe from his book
"Always Another Dawn," that after his Mach 2 flight he was at a dinner
seated next to some famous actress such as Marilyn Monroe or Zsa Zsa
Gabor, and after the dinner she said something like, "They say he's
the fastest man in the world, but I've been sitting next to him for a
couple of hours and he hasn't made a move."