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100	1		_aCrossfield, A. Scott _q(Albert Scott), _d1921-2006
245	1	0	_aAlways another dawn
250			_a[First edition]
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-04-13
508			_aBrian Wilson, Tim Lindell, Dan Conti, Dori Allard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520			_aAlways another dawn by A. Scott Crossfield is a memoir written in the mid-20th century. It follows a rocket test pilot’s path from university wind‑tunnel work to the X‑planes at Edwards, blending cockpit drama with engineering insight and a personal creed that action—not talk—drives progress. The focus is experimental flight at the frontiers of speed and altitude, the culture of NACA and Edwards, and the risks and discipline behind early supersonic research. The opening of this memoir states Crossfield’s purpose and briefly explains Mach numbers, then places him in postwar Seattle as a young wind‑tunnel engineer who longs to fly the Bell X‑1, even volunteering, before Yeager claims the barrier‑breaking flight and he doubles down on study and flying. Seeking a doorway, he targets NACA, visits Ames, and is steered to Edwards, where Walt Williams introduces the small High‑Speed Flight Test Station and its fleet (X‑1, X‑4, D‑558 Skyrocket, and the coming X‑2, X‑3, X‑5). He graduates, moves his family to the desert amid the urgency of the Korean War, and quickly inherits major test work. Early sorties show both promise and peril: an X‑4 checkout that ends with dual flameouts after a careless loop and a dead‑stick lakebed landing, and a Skyrocket air‑drop that triggers jet and rocket failures, loss of power and pressurization, icing, and a guided glide to safety. The narrative then flashes back to his roots—a principled father, a proud Mexican‑Irish mother, family reversals in the Depression, and childhood pneumonia and rheumatic fever that confined him but forged resolve—along with a neighbor pilot’s encouragement, obsessive model‑building, and secret lessons at a local field that shaped the discipline driving the tests to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The World Publishing Company, 1960
653			_aAir pilots -- Biography
653			_aAirplanes -- Flight testing
653			_aX-15 (Rocket aircraft)
700	1		_aBlair, Clay, _d1925-1998
856	4		_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.106506
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78431
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