Physicist Richard Cross
by Stuart Roosa
(Newport, VA)
Richard Cross
Richard Cross' Higher Mathmatics Award
Richard Cross was born January 13, 1960 and lives in Pace, Florida. He is a very brilliant man in the USA. He received a higher mathematics award and a physics honor and award. Now he is an aeronautical aircraft designer.
He loves aircraft design and has made several ultralight aircraft and several inventions and aircraft engines. He investigates, researches, analyzes and solves aircraft balance, weight, power, force, drag, inert and aerodynamics.
Richard Cross has logged 8,140 flight hours with
more than 300 different types of aircraft.
In 1994 at the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) airshow, Richard Cross met 25 famous Apollo astronauts for their 25th anniversary in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They admired him so much and told him that deaf people will have more possibilities in the near future. They told him that deaf people can fly to space but that NASA requires a 100-percent ability to hear.
Richard still is active flying, designing and working physics and mathematics and developing new conceptual aircraft.