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Subject:Re: A320 Crash
From:Ron Natalie
Date:Mon Aug 28 06:19:32 2000


Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
>=
> >
> >Crossfiled wanted to take a rocket assisted X-15 into space, but politics
> >overuled him.
>
> You are talking, as usual, pure, unadulterated crap.
>
> Crossfield was only the factory pilot for that aircraft.
>

Bertie is right. Crossfield only hit records of small consequence. He admitted
that it was his job to work out engineering problems with the birds. It was the
military pilots who were to do the stunts for glory.

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