Crossfield is an engineer and aviator who achieved fame piloting aircraft at record speeds, including becoming the first pilot to exceed Mach 2. He later worked on the groundbreaking X-15 program at North American Aviation, and later with Eastern Airlines. More on Scott's impressive bio is available at NASA's Web site. The National Transportation Safety Board is trying to fill more than 40 positions for pilots, controllers, engineers, writers, and analysts interested in the prevention and investigation of accidents. Qualifications and closing dates for applications vary.
Full information is available from the board's Web site .
FAA Issues Proposed Rocket Rules Knowing that you lie awake at night worried about stray rockets landing on your head, the FAA recently issued proposed rules that set forth requirements for obtaining a license to operate an expendable space-launch vehicle. The complete text of the FAA's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking about expendable space-launch vehicles is available online in Adobe's Portable Document Format, free readers for which are available at Adobe's Web site . Other fixes being examined are reinforcing the plane's fuel tanks. The private pilot population in China increased by some 10 percent recently when the first six private pilots in Shanghai received their licenses. The group included one woman and one New Zealander working in Shanghai.