I remember attending an aviation seminar which Scott Crossfield was one of the guest speakers. He related a very funny story to us which put us all in stitches. After one of his test flights he was taxiing his jet to the ramp before a number of reporters. He wanted to coast to a stop before the awaiting reporters. So he shut down the motor, and of course his hydraulics also went T/U. As he said "Luckely the hangar doors stopped the aircrafrt's motion".

After the dust settled, and before a group of shocked and astonished reporters, in his wry sense of humor he stated, and I can't remember the exact words, but, "Chuck Yeagar may have been the first man to break the sound barrier, but Scott Crossfield was the first man to break the hangar barrier." You gotta to admit... a man of true class.

May the winds be on his tail, and the sun never set on his path of flight. A gentleman who will truly be missed... but his memory will live for ever.