Still mad after 50 years....

—  Don Gates      

I met Mr. Crossfield at a Society for Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) annual conference held at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown LA, my boss was presenting a paper there and I was doing some test flying at Edwards.

Chuck Yeager was also there in the reception hall, each man knew the other was there... and they very carefully avoided each other, gave the other guy 'the evil eye'... it was almost comical to watch. Not going to comment as to the 'why' that may be the underlying issue, many others have commented.... but it was real.

Scott was generous with his time and was genuinely interestied in the flight test work we were doing on a large UAV. He was one of those guys that "got it".

A great American, and I was honored to have met him.