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How Scott Crossfield scored aviation’s double-sonic prize. Sixty years ago, high above California’s Antelope Valley, a civilian research pilot flying a needle-nosed rocket airplane ushered in the age of Mach 2. The man was Scott Cross- field, flying for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the plane was the aptly named Douglas Skyrocket. How …
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Daily Quiz for January 25, 2017The only recorded mass-suicide of African slaves brought to America happened in this state.
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