Donald W. "Mac" McCracken

Always thinking of you Dad...love and miss you with all of my heart! P.S. "I'm still punching until that bell rings"...❤❤❤ Mickey

I am Donald's daughter Mickey and wanted to express my sincere and heartfelt gratitude to those individuals who took the time to sign and write on my father's guest book. It means a lot to me to read the stories and recollect the memories you have of him. I would really like to speak to you if possible and hear more stories - if you are reading this, please reach out again. Once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I miss my dad so very much - but it warms my heart to know he...

I just googled Donand was glad to see he lived a good long life. I worked for the test pilots on the F4H program at Edwards AFB. Don was a dashing young pilot doing speed tests, superstitious, which saved his life one day. He had forgotten his lucky watch, and would not fly till his wife drove it out to EAFB. We had a call from flight operations: mistakingly, Dons altitude had been assigned the same as another flight test. He wore his same flight suit every day, once he started his test...

I was a flight test instrumentation engineer during the OV-10 Bronco development in the late 1960's. Don was the test pilot and had the ability to take an aircraft just to the breaking point, but bring it back to fly another day. He was absolutely fearless and fully engaged in making a better aircraft. I'm so sorry to hear of his passing. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Thinking of all of you....so sorry for your loss.
Cathy McDaniel