NAA famous test pilot Scott Crossfield in his office. Crossfield is wearing the lovely silver covered David Clark MC-2 full-pressure suit. That suit employed the charismatic helmet built by the Bill Jack Company, here without the inner face mask seen during Crossfield’s X-15 test flights.
Magnificently dramatic photo (Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
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Years ago I used to know a guy who worked for David Clark. He flew himself into Oshkosh and Reno every year to sell David Clark headsets. Great job I thought!
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It’s amazing having a look at images of the X-15 after the test when it reached its top speed ever, many parts of structure were nearly carbonized from the rub heat.
The Windsor building in Madrid where structure reached temperatures over 1’000º C for quite a long time, proved concrete, an special type of ‘composite’, resists extreme heat.
Could this fact lead to considering concrete, reinforced or not, with an appropriate component choice, as an Aero-Space material, for fuselages, wings,…?
Blessings +
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