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Reaching Hands. The static line was hopeless. Next the aircraft crewmen put out a rope. Flugum grabbed it, and they pulled him three feet toward safety before the force of the airstream loosened his grip. They lowered the rope again, and Flugum tied it around his waist. Then, through a sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold...
Besides showing pictures of the Vertijet's performance, Ryan told a few details about its construction. During vertical hovering, when no airstream is passing over the control surfaces, the X-13 is controlled by deflecting the exhaust of the jet engine and by varying its thrust by throttle adjustments. The pilot does not have to take off vertically while sitting on the back of his neck with his feet in the air. His seat pivots enough to keep him in a reasonable sitting position. Ryan officials say that the X-13 has proved remarkably easy to fly. Pilot Girard...
...problem of flight at supersonic speeds, but they are still wrestling with the jet-age problem of bailing out. Both the Navy and Air Force have been betting that as speeds rise, the pilot who bails out will have to be protected from the killing blast of the airstream by a detachable, parachute-fitted cockpit that can be blasted away from the crippled aircraft. But no aircraft now being made is designed to take a capsule cockpit...
...arms and legs are lashed into place and he is catapulted downward out of the plane. Once free of the cockpit, the seat projects an 8 in. by 5 in. steel plate on a 4-ft. boom in front of the pilot, shielding him from the force of the airstream much as an auto-hood deflector diverts bugs from a windshield. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp. the space surgeon, says that this gimmick puts...
...working on. Igor Sikorsky points out that convertiplanes have many serious mechanical and aerodynamic problems that have not yet been solved. He believes that only moderate increases in speed and range are likely while the hybrid aircraft still has a whirling rotor to get in the way of the airstream. For many years, Sikorsky thinks, conventional helicopters will hold the ground that they have recently won. Eventually, perhaps, a convertiplane will be perfected that can retract its rotors completely while flying as an airplane. Such a craft, free of the rotor's drag, might have very great speed...