Originally Posted by 20driver
In Chuck Yeager's book he mentioned how many hot shot test pilots ended up in a great smoking hole because they would not read the manual before flight. In one funny bit he describes how a buddy parked his shiny new jet in the wall of the hangar. Seems to still be happening.
The friend in the book ws his friend was Scott Crossfield, who went on to fly the X-15. But any way Scott Crossfield was taxiing to parking after one of his flights, and shut down the engine and wanted to coast to a stop. When the engine wound down so did his hyrdraulics... ergo no brakes and bang, into the hangar. Anyway in Crossfield's wry sense of humor he stated to the awaiting reporters "Yeager may have been the first to break the sound barrier, but I was the first to break the hangar doors" Both great aviators, gentlement, colleagues and friends. Most important, they respected their machines.