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a. (context soccer English) Passed from one side of the pitch to the other.
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Crossfield can refer to:
- Crossfield, Alberta
- Albert Scott Crossfield
- Magnetic crossfield effect
Usage examples of "crossfield".
But about all it was good for now was an Air Force base where guys like Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield flew the X-planes and the Martians landed their saucers every now and then.
William Warren Crossfield had commanded an Army Group north from Southern France and over the Rhine.
Crossfield was the most prominent of the rocket pilots, now that Yeager was no longer at Edwards, and he had as well developed an ego as any of Edwards' fabled jocks, and he was one of the most brilliant of all the pilots when it came to engineering.
Chuck Yeager himself had flown the first weightless parabolas for the Air Force, and then Crossfield had flown them for NASA.